It is the late winter of Tommy Pham, described far and wide as a fourth outfielder when the Mets signed him for the upcoming season. Unnerving spate of rules changes aside, the outfield still contains only three positions. Nobody is every described as a fifth infielder. And second catchers are usually referred to as backup […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Movies, Carlos Beltran, Darin Ruf, Howie Rose, Jeff McNeil, Keith Raad, Late Winter, Matt Allan, Pat McCarthy, T-shirts, Tommy Pham, Wayne Randazzo It’s an article of faith among people who critique sports media that, ultimately, fans don’t tune into games because of the announcers. That appraisal may track with ratings but it doesn’t reflect enthusiasm. I’ve been tuning into Mets baseball in one form or another with glee in my remote-clicking and button-pushing fingers for more than […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History “You’ll never get me to downgrade the Mets. They’re not the only last-place team I ever played for. The fans here are hard to beat. When I was in the hospital this season, I got 600 to 700 letters and cards. You can’t beat that.” When he debuted as a major leaguer, starting in […] Upon further review, the immaculate interception of December 21, 2022, has been overturned. The Mets swooping in and plucking Carlos Correa out of the air proved too good to be true. Or maybe, if you’re an adherent of The Best Deals Are The Ones You Never Finalized school of thought, it will turn out to be […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abbott and Costello, Brett Baty, Carlos Correa, Eduardo Escobar, Mets Third Basemen, Never Mets, Norihiro Nakamura, Pending Physicals, Undone Deals There’s Oscar pouring ketchup on his salad. There’s Felix expressing revulsion. There’s Oscar explaining to him ketchup is the culinary equivalent of tomato wine (tomato dressing would have been a more logical retort, but maybe somebody in the writer’s room was thinking wine on salad evoked oil and vinegar). Oscar, of course, is wearing a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Mets Pop Culture, Nanette Fluhr, Oscar's Cap Awards I’ve been trying to reconstruct how we got there. I remember we were in the car. I can see the shopping center parking lot where the exchange is taking place, a dreary Monday night as Monday nights are bound to be as January winds down. We’re turning into the lot from Long Beach’s main drag […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Birthdays, Chinese Food, Fathers and Sons, Milestones, Two-Lane State Roads Good news — the Mets made the playoffs in 2022! Less good news — the Mets were bounced from the playoffs very quickly in 2022! Middling news for the 2022 Mets — they get postseason shares! You go to the postseason, you earn a little extra scratch. It’s how baseball works. You go far in the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Connor Grey, Gosuke Katoh, Kramer Robertson, Postseason Shares In 2022, the Mets finally got the past right. It feels so good to rattle off the roll call of their history-acknowledging triumphs; Nancy Seaver offering her benediction at the reveal of the Tom Seaver Statue on April 15; the retirement of Keith Hernandez’s 17 on July 9; the syncing of Gil Hodges Bobblehead Night […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2022 Postseason, 60th Anniversary, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Placards, Satisfaction, Sparky Lyle, Team History, The Simpsons, The Sopranos A former major leaguer who I watched pitch against the Mets once but who I can’t say I remember doing so tweeted something eye-opening this week: “In the entire history of baseball, only 22,860 have made it to the major leagues. That total easily fits into any MLB stadium.” An actor who portrays a former […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Bob File, Dom Smith, James McCann, John Bateman, Ken Webster, Mets Catchers, Michael Conforto, No Bum, Omar Narvaez, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido It’s one thing to proceed through an offseason confident that the Mets aren’t “out” on any free agent in whom they have legitimate interest. It’s a different thing from the days of “we signed a hitter, so we probably have to scrounge for a pitcher,” and it’s a welcome departure from those days. It’s another […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Correa, Franco Harris, Free Agency, Giants, Jim Fregosi, Mets Third Basemen, Moment of Silence, Omar Narvaez, Pending Physicals, Steve Cohen |
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