 
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. |
Precedents don’t necessarily prove anything. All they tell us is whether something happened before, and it’s up to us if we want to take our clues from there. Here’s the precedent that’s gonna kill us: If we fall out of first place — and, based on the results from Chicago and everything that’s been going on […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, First Place, Precedent, Sweeps, Team History “It was a start. I believe in starts. Once you have the start, the rest is inevitable.” Presumably somebody somewhere waited breathlessly for Bob Moorhead to make his major league debut, but it seems safe to say he didn’t carry quite the cachet to his impending initiation that Noah Syndergaard did […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Bob Moorhead, Met Debuts, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, The Commitments “I hit behind Yogi in one ballgame […] somebody threw him a fastball up in his eyes and Yogi banged it up the middle for a single and I was sitting there on deck going, ‘This is not a game for which I’m familiar…good god.’ To bat behind Yogi Berra, that was awesome.” It wasn’t […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Al Jackson, An Appreciation, Jim Bethke, Johnny Monell, Mets Catchers, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Yogi Berra And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this seventh of ten installments, we consider the one player who was there on our first Opening Day and who’s still here on our eleventh…and use the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, David Wright, FAFIF Turns Ten, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Team History I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we notice how Met turnover subtly became Met stability. There was an article in the Washington Post the other day that fascinated me. It informed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Team History I consider the series finale of Parks & Recreation, which aired Tuesday night, to be one of the finest farewells in the history of episodic television. Yet within twelve hours of viewing, I found something even better to watch. It wasn’t a goodbye episode. More like getting reacquainted. The effect was more invigorating, even, than […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Bill Wambsganss, Bob Murphy, Carl Erskine, Channel 9, Diamond Club Girls, Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Torre, Lindsey Nelson, Mickey Mantle, Old Timers Day, Parks & Recreation, Phil Maci, Ralph Kiner, Roy Campanella, Stan Lomax, Team History, Terry Cashman, Willie Mays The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. ZACHARY CRAIG “Zach” LUTZ I saw Zach Lutz (barely) prevent a no-hitter in the seventh inning and a […] The Royals’ 7-2 victory in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a healthy reminder that there are two league champions vying in this World Series. Or, more cynically, the Giants’ 7-2 defeat in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a pointed reminder that an 89-win team is playing an 88-win team for the championship of the world. 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Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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