Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team getting your spot. But never mind that Jacob deGrom was the most stellar Met of the first […]
 
Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans. Greg Prince discovered the Mets when he was 6, during the magical summer of 1969. He is a Long Island-based writer, editor and communications consultant. Contact him here. Jason Fry is a Brooklyn writer whose first memories include his mom leaping up and down cheering for Rusty Staub. Check out his other writing here. Got something to say? Leave a comment, or email us at faithandfear@gmail.com. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Bobby Bonilla, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Who've Won All-Star Games, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Ron Hunt, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing A pitcher homering is baseball porn, pure and simple. A pitcher pitching eight innings and giving up no earned runs is more exotic than it used to be, maybe more exotic than it oughta be. Which would you rather have? You’d rather have both if you can, and we could on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Porn, Jacob deGrom, M&Ms, Pitchers Hitting, Relative Rarities, Team History Bergino Baseball Clubhouse proprietor Jay Goldberg possesses the wryest of wits. In graciously inviting me to pull up a chair and talk about Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star at his one-of-a-kind shop a few blocks south of Union Square, he offered me the date of June 15. We would discuss my new book, of course, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Deleted Scenes, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mike Piazza, Team History, Tom Seaver With your first selection of what to do on Thursday night, June 15, at 7 o’clock, I hope you’ll choose to make a visit to Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 E. 11th St. in Manhattan. I’ll be there talking about my book Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star with gracious owner and podcast host Jay Goldberg, going […] A few weeks ago I came across an article previewing brand spanking new SunTrust Park. It said that Braves fans were certain to enjoy some fantastic feature or another, which caused me to chuckle internally, because nobody really has an inkling of what a ballpark is going to turn into until experience replaces expectation. After […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Braves, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Leadoff Home Runs, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Position Players Pitching, Relief Pitchers Hitting, Sean Gilmartin, SunTrust Park, Team History, Unknowables, Weathervane Rooting Have you ever seen anything like Jay Bruce? Once, maybe. Like most precedents, it’s inexact. Unlike most precedents, this one had physical proximity going for it. On Wednesday night — a night when the Mets’ starting pitcher pitched into the eighth instead of the fifth and the Mets’ manager used three relievers instead of all of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2004 Mets, Jay Bruce, Precedent, SNY, Team History, Todd Zeile A grand slam? The Marlins thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam? Hey, Marlins, I got a team I wanna introduce you to: the Phillies. The Phillies thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam. Hey, Phillies, tell the Marlins how that worked out. Yeah, I thought so. The Phillies […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Hernandez, Brett Gardner, Brian Johnson, Chipper Jones, Darren Daulton, Ernest Riles, Grand Slams, Hansel Robles, Hubie Brooks, Jason Thompson, Jay Bruce, Jody Davis, Maikel Franco, Marathons, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Melvin Nieves, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Neil Walker, Opponent Grand Slams in Mets Wins, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, Ryan Jackson, Team History, Terry Puhl, Todd Helton, Tom Goodwin, Travis d'Arnaud, Vic Davalillo, Willie Stargell, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks, Yoenis Cespedes Spring Training’s final public act was cancelled Friday when rain washed away a game against the United States Military Academy, a.k.a. Army, at Citi Field, an exhibition that was going to be carried out at West Point until the playing conditions at Doubleday Field at Johnson Stadium were deemed harmful for major leaguers and other […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allegiances, Buffalo Bisons, Casey Stengel, Fans, Jimmy Breslin, Long Island, New York, Quinnipiac, Rheingold, Surveys, Team History, Transitory Popularity, West Point I want to believe we’ll beat the Braves on Opening Day (you never know) and finish substantially ahead of them this season (probably, but I take nothing as a given). What’s sad is that Atlanta has lifted the lid on SunTrust Park — their fifteenth home in eighteen years — by moving ahead of us in […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield, Home Run Apple, Macintosh Club, Milestone Quarry, Sandy Koufax, SunTrust Park, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Utter Foolishness |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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