When Yogi Berra died in 2015, Dave Hillman ascended to the role of Oldest Living Met. Yogi Berra is among the most famous baseball figures of the past 75 years, perhaps ever. People still quote Berra, still invoke Berra, still remember Berra. He’s been gone seven years, but his legacy is likely to live on […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1990 Mets, Chuck Carr, Dave Hillman, Marlins, Moment of Silence OK, there isn’t a plan — baseball routinely makes a mockery of plans — but there is a blueprint a team tries to follow, and I’m pretty sure the Mets’ blueprint wasn’t labeled LOSE WITH BARELY A WHIMPER TO PATRICK CORBIN AND ERICK FEDDE. I flashed back to 1990, when the Mets’ quest for a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Nabholz, Erick Fedde, Expos, Frustration, Nationals, Trevor Williams Most of the time you don’t know. Sometimes you know just enough. Sunday I didn’t definitively know if the Mets were dead and buried at 4-0 after one; were alive and well at 4-4 in the middle of the fourth; had dirt kicked on them at 7-4 at the end of four; had sprung back […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 2022 Mets, Alec Bohm, Bob Murphy, Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Damn Things, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Jose Butto, Mark Canha, Michael Perez, Nate Fisher, Phillies, Six Feet Under, Starling Marte, Team History, Trevor May 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. As August 1988 came to an end, the New York Mets were one full season removed from a championship and looked like a good bet to add more flags over Shea Stadium. The team’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Davey Johnson, David Cone, Gregg Jefferies, Howard Johnson, Joe McIlvaine, Randy Myers, Roger McDowell, Ron Darling, Wally Backman 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 On the last day of Eastern Standard Time in the spring of 2020, I found myself in a Wendy’s. It was a throwback visit of sorts. I hadn’t been in this Wendy’s or any Wendy’s since early in 2012. The Giants were finishing beating up the Falcons in the first playoff game ever hosted at […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Bait & Switch, Fast Food, Frank Viola, George Foster, John Franco, John Stearns, Long Memories, Long Waits, Proustian Burgers, The National To paraphrase a distinguished United States senator from her exchange with an overmatched opponent in a recent presidential debate, I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of rooting for the New York Mets just to talk about what they really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for. The Mets are three games behind the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Alive, Brandon Nimmo, Brian Barnes, Chris Nabholz, Noah Syndergaard, Patrick Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Rene Rivera, Rockies, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Ursine Companions Zack Wheeler, in his fifth major league season of actually pitching as opposed to healing, has never pitched for a Mets team that finished with a winning record. The only two good seasons during his injury-interrupted tenure were the seasons he missed with Tommy John surgery and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1999 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Over .500, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks Some won-lost records just jump out at me. For example, the Mets losing Sunday and falling to 20-23 sparked my recognition that the Mets hit that very same mark 24 years earlier. In 1990, losing and falling to 20-23 presented a platform for firing the most successful manager in franchise history. After guiding the Mets to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Davey Johnson, Milestones, Records, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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