 
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. |
The sample size is only four Saturdays, but I can definitively report that it’s always colder the morning of the Queens Baseball Convention than it was at any point in the preceding week. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it snows a lot. It snowed so much in 2016 that there was no QBC. That’ll happen in January. […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Bobby Valentine, FanFest, Gil Hodges, Mets Fans, Queens Baseball Convention, Tim Teufel, Tom Seaver Maybe I was just in a good mood. Emily and I were supposed to be back Monday night — Portland, Me., is an easy 45 minutes or so away by plane. But Monday night’s rainout also scratched our plane, shifting us to a 5:30 am departure Tuesday. Ugh … and then they cancelled that one too, telling […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Martinez, Doubleheaders, Jedd Gyorko, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Teufel, Tommy Pham, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Mets are down one to the allegedly lousy Braves in the bottom of the ninth with nobody out. Wilmer Flores is on first. James Loney has lashed a Jim Johnson pitch into the left-center gap. Flores is running. We probably have a few minutes until the situation resolves itself. I don’t want to say Wilmer […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ender Inciarte, Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, Haircuts, James Loney, Radio, Saturdays, Tim Teufel, Wilmer Flores Friday night in Phoenix didn’t offer enough positive developments to encourage the pessimistic yet likely didn’t dampen the stubborn enthusiasm of the optimistic. Jon Niese pitched well enough to win until he fell behind. From there, the bullpen pitched poorly enough to ensure he’d lose. Oh, and once again nobody hit. Or “nobody” hit, as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Lyons, Charlie O'Brien, David Cone, Dick Schofield, Double Vision, Eddie Murray, John Mayberry, Kevin McReynolds, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada, Ryan Thompson, Team History, Tim Teufel, Twin Digits, Uniform Numbers, Vince Coleman When Saturday’s one-run loss to the Reds was over, it was easy to pinpoint the most obviously pivotal play. It happened at third base in the ninth inning, when Eric Young, who has somehow stolen 29 bases in a season when it feels like he’s played in maybe 29 games, was called safe by Alfonso […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Donald Lutz, Eric Young, Jorge Toca, Terry Collins, Tim Teufel, Video Review Congratulations to proven Amazin’ research maven Mathias Kook and talented Metsian writer William Akers for understanding the 1986 World Series was a Fall Classic Sly Stone probably adored, for almost Everybody [Was] A Star. As noted here, 26 of the 43 players who played in the last truly great World Series — parochially speaking — […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bobby Ojeda, Danny Heep, Doug Sisk, Kevin Elster, Mookie Wilson, Rafael Santana, Roger McDowell, Tim Teufel, Wally Backman Top Mets brass has descended on Miami for the final series of the year. It’s a shame minority owner Bill Maher isn’t among the traveling party. One of Maher’s recurring features on his HBO program, Real Time, is “Dispatches From the Bubble,” wherein some politician is spotlighted asserting fact-like talking points that are pretty clearly […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Maher, Bob Geren, Coaches, Dan Warthen, Dave Hudgens, Eddie Yost, Joe Pignatano, Ricky Bones, Rube Walker, Terry Collins, Tim Teufel, Tom Goodwin The Mets all but screwed up a game started by Mike Pelfrey and it had absolutely nothing to do with Mike Pelfrey. Now that’s what I call progress. Other events covering the bottom of the eighth through the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday afternoon…now that’s what I’d call retrogression. It was going to be such a simple […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Aubrey Huff, Billy Wagner, Brandon Belt, Bruce Bochy, Buster Posey, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dumbass Wins, Frank Francisco, Gary Cohen, Idiotic Managing, Iron Triangle, Jon Rauch, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Luis Castillo, Mental Backpack, Mike Pelfrey, Philip Humber, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, Tim Byrdak, Tim Teufel Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 52nd game in any Mets season, the “best” 53rd game in any Mets season, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1986 Mets, Dave Kingman, Fiftieth Anniversary, Larry Bearnarth, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tim Teufel Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them. Harking back to Spring Training 2006, the regular reader may recall one of my intermittent fits of panic regarding our team and my ability to relate to […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Flashback Friday, Tim Teufel |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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