 
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. |
Spring Training, you gotta stop making real news. Frankie Montas’s lat last week. Nick Madrigal’s shoulder over the weekend. Sean Manaea’s oblique as the Monday surprise du jour. We’re here for bright skies and optimism and megastars presenting vehicles to would-be stars in exchange for jersey numbers. That’s the news we can consume and smile about. All injuries […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  22, Al Leiter, Alexander Canario, Brett Baty, David Wright, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Frankie Montas, Injuries, Jimmy Carter, Juan Soto, Moment of Silence, Nick Madrigal, Presidents, Ray Knight, Retired Numbers, Rituals, Roberta Flack, Sean Manaea, Spring Training Injuries, Team History, Uniform Numbers “Welcome everybody to Kiner’s Korner, brought to you by Mitsubishi Motors. I’m your host, Ralph Kiner, and today we have three very special guests. My producer told me they would be No. 7, No. 6 and No. 5, so I had my questions ready for Eddie Kranepool, Al Weis, and the Glider, Ed Charles, but […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, Mike Vail, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Ralph Kiner, Ray Sadecki, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver For years, I never forgot where I was when J.C. Martin laid down the bunt that led to the winning run that gave the Mets Game Four and a commanding Three-One lead in the 1969 World Series. I was in the Cozy Nook, the all-purpose luncheonette where I bought most of my baseball cards, magazines […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1969 World Series, First Impressions, J.C. Martin, Marilu Henner, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons Ah, the rites of Spring. Two, specifically… 1) The first press availability of the year with players who rate a full-blown sitdown with the assembled St. Lucie media. Francisco Lindor one day, Juan Soto the next, Pete Alonso today. Revelations? They’re thrilled to be back, or here, or back here. Why shouldn’t they be? They’re all […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annual Rituals, Frankie Montas, Injuries, Reassuring Happy Talk, Spring Training, Spring Training Injuries To borrow an opening line from an impeccable source, it was twenty years ago today that Faith and Fear in Flushing began to play. With a little help from our friends who’ve read us, contacted us and been an essential part of us, we’ve kept playing. Just like the Mets. Just like some other players. It […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Mets Pop Culture, Milestones, Saturday Night Live Topps created 787 different baseball cards for 1972. I don’t remember how many of them I collected, but at least until the final series I’d say “many,” if not most. With the questionably titled In Action subset; the Awards — what kid doesn’t want to stare at a plaque?; the Boyhood Photos of the Stars; […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 45 RPMs, Baseball Cards, Casey Kasem, Lists, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Wacky Packs, You Gotta Believe The distance from No. 11 to No. 10 on any list is both incremental and immense. Top Ten implies a level above all others. Therefore, with all due respect to all others, welcome to the Top Ten portion of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-‘PRESENT’ (with 2024’s slotting TBD), where things […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Centuries, Derek Bell, Maturity, Mike Hampton, Millennia, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, The Years After, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile The Mets’ How We Spent Our Winter Vacation essay can be produced in succinct fashion: “We did some signing. We did some trading. We did some retaining.” Given who they signed in December and who they retained in February, that’s a dozen words worthy of a pretty high grade. Free agents and player swaps are what […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Ed Charles, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Kevin Mitchell, Not The Same, OMG, Pete Alonso, Ray Knight, Retentions, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Years After, Uniforms The long, cold winter brightened and warmed with the word Wednesday night that a Polar Bear will continue to prowl among us for the foreseeable future, which is to say one, maybe two years. Foreseeable may be a stretch. You live in the world today. You’ve ascertained that nobody can see very far into the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Abraham & Strauss, Hagstrom, Homecomings, Pete Alonso, Timeless References Oh, it was a fun year. Such a fun year! The fuel light came on and the engine quit a little ways short of the Promised Land, but what a joyride until then! We got 34 new Mets, five of them making their MLB debuts. Some look like pieces of the future, others remind us […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Houser, Alex Young, Baseball Cards, Ben Gamel, Christian Scott, Cole Sulser, Danny Young, Dedniel Nunez, Eddy Alvarez, Eric Orze, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jesse Winker, Joe Hudson, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Jose Iglesias, Julio Teheran, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Matt Festa, Michael Tonkin, Pablo Reyes, Paul Blackburn, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Holy Books, Ty Adcock, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short |
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