This Tuesday night in August was going to be part makeup game, part resumption. The makeup portion was for 2020 when the Princes and the Chasins (that’s me and Stephanie, Ryder and his dad Rob) did not get out to Citi Field because nobody was getting out to Citi Field on any night in any […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  August, Carlos Carrasco, Rain Delays, Ryder Chasin, Suspended Games, Tradition In doing my nightly postgame statistical rounds, I noticed that the score by which the Mets beat the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, 11-6, had been gathering dust for quite some time. Until Wednesday, when the Mets exploded with practically unimaginable amounts of offense and it still seemed barely enough to fend off one particular precocious […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anibal Sanchez, Juan Soto, Keeping Count, Robert Gsellman, Ryder Chasin, Scores, Tradition The Tenth Annual Princes and Chasins Spend a Tuesday Night At Citi Field in August Game came with a surprise at the bottom of its Cracker Jack box: competitive implications beyond the bonhomie inherent in these get-togethers. Bonhomie is all the four of us were in it for when we settled on this date, same […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Bonhomie, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Tradition, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler Welcome to Tuesday night, Citi Field, Flushing, New York, August, the 2010s. It is not by chance we are here. We make a date. We make this date. August 10, 2010 Did we ever have a meeting to decide? Did it go through committee? Did we take […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Rockies, Ryder Chasin, Shake Shack, Tradition Singin’ to the world Those 2014 New York Mets kept up their end of the minuscule bargain I struck with them in the middle of July. They had just come off a vigorous homestand in which they won seven of their previous eight games, and caught […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Barry Manilow, Bobby Abreu, Citi Field, Closing Day, Lucas Duda, Team History, Tradition Tuesday night in August means Chasin Time at Citi Field for the Princes. For the Chasins, it means Prince Time. It’s a good time for all every year for five years suddenly, as time lives up to its reputation and flies. Stephanie and I have been meeting up with erstwhile Bar Mitzvah boy/sharp-eyed sleepover correspondent […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryder Chasin, Tradition In practice, I might not notice the Houston Astros’ disappearance from the National League all that much. With 162 games and oodles of non-divisional opponents on your dance card, what’s one home series and one road series in the scheme of things? But in theory and sentiment, I will surely miss our fraternal twins when […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Continental League, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Expansion, Fiftieth Anniversary, Realignment, Team History, Tradition |
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