 
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. |
In the three decades since Fred Wilpon entered our consciousness, oftentimes the best thing about the ownership group he’s played a major part in running was who he was and who they weren’t. First, it was outstanding that Doubleday & Company, Inc. — 95% majority owners of the New York Mets as of January 24, 1980 […]  31 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Joan Payson, Lorinda de Roulet, Nelson Doubleday, Ownership, public relations, Team History When acknowledging assumptions as mistaken, Bob Murphy philosophized, “That’s why they put erasers on pencils.” You can use the same device to erase all the 6-4-3’s you’d already scratched into your scorebooks for all the double plays Bengie Molina was going to hit into as the Met catcher this season. Scratch ’em out — Molina’s […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bengie Molina, Chris Coste, Henry Blanco, Josh Thole, Mets Catchers, Omir Santos Four for four: the Mets went 4-for-4 today. They resumed baseball activities with a bang. The long-rumored, long-postponed, long-hidden Mets Hall of Fame announced its class for 2010, its first class in eight years, and it’s a doozy. It’s so good I have this feeling I’m writing one of those “wouldn’t it be nice?” fictional blog […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History Shortly before the Mets’ crack baseball folks heard about Carlos Beltran’s surgery and carefully aimed the rifle at the blasted remnants of their own feet, I spent a good chunk of time contemplating this post by Amazin’ Avenue’s Sam Page. Based on WAR, it showed the pre-Steadmanized Mets as an 83-win team. Page then offered […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Jeff Wilpon, Omar Minaya, One-Car Funerals Who thought there could be three variations on essentially the same name and it would be the Jets who got the best of the lot? Since when do the Jets get the best of anything? On the other hand, is it terribly surprising the Mets got the Shawn — not to mention the Sean — end […] While sitting here hopng the J-E-T-S will B-E-A-T the Chargers (and coming up with reasons to dislike the City of San Diego…stupid zoo), I’ve been kindly sent a link to a segment of vintage Art Rust, Jr. from 1981, at the beginning of his tenure on WABC. It’s a Spring Training show during which Art […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, Art Rust, Craig Swan, Joel Youngblood, Radio Perhaps you’re familiar with the story of Jackie Robinson retiring rather than accepting the last transaction Walter O’Malley arranged for him, a trade to the Giants for Dick Littlefield. The very thought! Jackie the ultimate Dodger going to the hated rivals! GASP! No wonder he quit! Actually, Robinson had already decided to retire from baseball after the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson, New York Giants Omar Minaya has told Newsday…ah, y’know what? I was going to update the saga of the ‘scope, but honestly, what’s the point? Without getting into Minaya’s crystal-clear explanation that he did talk to Beltran but he didn’t tell Beltran to have the surgery but there’s no problem between the organization and Beltran even though the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Injuries, Omar Minaya, public relations “I am totally surprised by the reaction to my recent knee surgery.” Honestly, this is better than the Jay-Conan thing. I mean, yeah, I know, we don’t want to be without Carlos Beltran, and it won’t be the least bit funny come April 5 when Angel Pagan is waiting for a fly ball in left only to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Disappointment, Injuries, John Ricco, Omar Minaya, public relations The Mets wanted Carlos Beltran to get a third opinion? OK, here goes: “Hey Carlos, your team needs starting pitching.” Opinions are like Met injuries: There are plenty to go around. Today the Mets expressed, as blandly and nonlitigiously as possible (other than by just shutting up), the opinion that Carlos Beltran went behind their backs to […] |
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