We have reached a stop on the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT journey that can’t be appreciated fully if you forget to pack nuance. This season wouldn’t rate as highly as it does with me if there wasn’t more to it than its unfortunate ending. It would likely rate a […]
 
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. |
On November 8, the Monday before last, Edgardo Alfonzo turned 48. On November 16, this past Tuesday, Dwight Gooden turned 57. On November 17, today, Tom Seaver would have turned 77. Being a diehard fan means knowing when your favorite players — Tom, Doc and Fonzie are my Top Three — began to live. Being […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  An Appreciation, Arnold Hano, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Fandom, Gil Hodges, Moment of Silence, Nassau County, New York Giants, November, Polo Grounds, Queens Baseball Convention, Ron Hunt, Shannon Forde, Steve Somers, Tom Seaver's Birthday, WFAN, Willie Mays Mike Francesa, who used to provide a lead-in to Mets Extra, is leaving the radio station that used to broadcast Mets games. Without that de facto Metsian connection, I doubt I would have listened to him much if at all. He has benefited from prime legacy real estate where my listenership is concerned. Francesa — […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation (of sorts), Mike Francesa, Radio, WFAN That Sunday was Closing Day, an inescapable fact of the schedule, was never far from my consciousness. Yet it wasn’t until I was on the outbound 7 Super Express, rushing away from Citi Field, that it fully hit me that the Mets’ 2013 season was over. Perhaps I was lost in the kind of series-finale […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, Harry Minor, Larry Sanders, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Piazza, WFAN And you remember Sunday afternoon September 29 should be earmarked for nostalgia, a state our 52-year-old franchise embraces sporadically and reluctantly. The Mets resist embracing their past as if they don’t have enough of it or they doubt a substantial proportion of their loyalists treasure it. In this month when we’re […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Laraine Day, Larry Sanders, Nostalgia, Radio, Simulcast, SNY, WFAN Surprise! Aaron Harang was … not that bad. He wasn’t great, but he pitched capably enough — a team with an iota of offense might have had a chance out there, which unfortunately doesn’t describe the current Mets. A couple of weeks ago, our young players might have frowned at hearing that baseball conventional wisdom is […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Frank Francisco, Jayson Werth, Ron Darling, WFAN The Mets aired their games on WMCA, 570 on your AM dial, for five seasons. They weren’t much good then, and the sound quality might have left something to be desired, but they and we survived. From 1967 through 1971, the Mets called WJRZ-AM home. As the call letters imply, ’JRZ was a Jersey-based station, […] I have so much to tell you. I don’t know where to start. He’s just some fan. What do you expect? So many games like Tuesday night’s. So many road trips like the one that has wound winless from Miami to Washington. So many […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Chris Farley, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Howie Rose, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Fans, Radio, The King Of Comedy, WFAN Monday night I did something I’m certain I hadn’t done since the twilight of Fran Healy. I turned down the sound on a Mets-generated telecast so I could listen to the game on radio. GKR heresy, I know, but I gave Gary, Keith & Ron part of the exhibition season opener off so I could […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Lorn Brown, Nino Espinosa, Radio, Wayne Hagin, WFAN, Willie Montanez With apologies to the late Warren Zevon: Hurry home early, hurry on home Fortunately, you don’t have to hurry home. At 2 o’clock Eastern, just flick on ESPN Radio (1050 AM in New York) wherever you happen to be. Or go to espnradio.com. Fire up the appropriate app. Hitch a […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Radio, WFAN |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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