The saving grace of a season’s first loss, particularly if it follows the euphoria of a season’s first win, is its inevitability. It was gonna happen sooner or later. Get this unpleasant slice of reality over with since you know darn well you have to and move on. But don’t get it over with the […]
 
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. |
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Guess who’s back When you are lacking it, few pitches are more alluring than boring old competence. Consider a few politicians who’ve seized on the idea of knowing what they were […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2014 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bugs Bunny, Ed Koch, Jacob deGrom, Jimmy Carter, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Dukakis, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, The Mary Tyler Moore Show After sampling slices of the most depressing pair of Mayor’s Trophy Games ever presented, I’ve turned from being cautiously anticipant of the 2020 season back toward my previous state of “baseball amid all of this — they can’t be serious.” That there were no fans at Citi Field on Saturday or at the other local […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Abnormality, Adaptation, The West Wing Faith and Fear has the finest readers anywhere, we say with total objectivity, thus we thought we’d let you fine people about some Mets-related projects a few of our friends on the other side of the screen have lately crafted or are in the midst of crafting. • Michael Elias has published the relationship-driven novel Two […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Brooklyn Dodgers, Documentaries, FAFIF Readers, James Schapiro, Mets Pop Culture, Michael Elias, Nick Davis Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. It was a glorious time… Like the Mets are doing in 2020, the Mets fans of 1970 spent their summer at day camp. Well, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1970 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Goodfellas, Tommie Agee Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Come on along The first player this […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Beverages, Blogging, Most Valuable Met, Pedro A. Martinez, Pedro Martinez, The Simpsons MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans. True, they no longer have Thom […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2020 Mets, 60-Man Pool, Chili Davis, Darryl Strawberry, Gordon Beckham, Hunter Strickland, Jared Hughes, John Pacella, Jon Matlack, Luis Rojas, Melky Cabrera, Ruben Tejada, Summer Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I’m getting the feeling I came in at the end. The best is over. From June 7 through June 11 in 1977, the Mets’ starting rotation turned like this: Tom Seaver 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Craig Swan, Earned Run Average, The Simpsons, The Sopranos Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Didn’t we almost have it all As it approaches the halfway mark, the year 2020 is not making a case for itself as one […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Mets Hall of Fame, Mookie Wilson, Short Seasons Are you ready for some baseball? Well, are ya? Let’s cross our fingers and hope baseball is ready for itself. Baseball can declare all the intentions it wants. It still has to check in with the coronavirus pretty regularly to make sure it gets to proceed as it intends. Until we find out otherwise, it is on. Baseball, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Poxes, Second Chances, Spring Training, Unusual Circumstances |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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