Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Faith and Fear in Flushing, founded February 16, 2005. For the now twenty Spring Trainings that this blog has existed, we have set out annually in the sincere hope that the Met season ahead serves as prelude to a Met postseason. That’s really all you can ask of a […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Anniversaries, Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Humility, Internal Affairs, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Postseason Acknowledgment, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Stripes, T.J. Rivera, That Thing You Do, Yoenis Cespedes June 12 to June 14, 2017, at Citi Field. September 12 to September 14, 2017, at Wrigley Field. I’ll go back to intensely disliking the Cubs then, on a need-to-spite basis. Maybe in between if our potential postseason fate seems to depend on it. Until then, certainly for now, all hats off to the new world […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Postseason, 2016 World Season, 2017 Mets, Cubs, Indians, Winter, World Series Ending Congratulations to the ballclub that just broke a 71-year pennant drought. Let us rejoice that its dry spell wasn’t snapped after only 70 years. The National League has a new champion that is no longer us. It feels as if there should have been some sort of formal ceremony to mark the transfer of grandeur, maybe Terry […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Postseason, 2016 World Series, Cubs, Indians, Not Winning Something Substantial, Sheadenfreude There I sat, an unaffiliated baseball fan, watching the game because it was the only game that was on, the final game that would be on, Game Seven of the World Series, October 29, 2014, the Royals playing the Giants for the championship of the sport I loved. Those teams and that circumstance had nothing […] 93 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Conor Gillaspie, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Giants, Jeurys Familia, Madison Bumgarner, Mathematically Eliminated, Moneyball, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Wild Card Earl Weaver, were he still among us, would likely be impatiently reaching inside his custom-made jersey for another cigarette, and not because his successor in Baltimore held out his best reliever in Toronto while the Orioles’ season went up in smoke. Weaver, between puffs of his filthy nicotine habit (having to stressfully rely on Don […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Don Stanhouse, Earl Weaver, Madison Bumgarner, Noah Syndergaard, Wild Card, Zach Britton The Mets’ Closing Day Preemption Tour touched down in Philadelphia on Sunday. One week after the final regular-season home game didn’t feel particularly final, the last date on the previously published schedule gave way to one more afternoon that didn’t jibe with the customary rhythms of the baseball calendar. Game 162 is supposed to be the […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Closing Day, Team History Mr. 1973, you can come in now. It’s time for you to meet your grandseason. His name is 2016. Do you see the resemblance? Yes, right there, it’s in his trajectory. Pick him up. Hold him. Have a gander at his late August. Normally for a bouncing baby playoff team, it would be much higher. […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Amazin' Bloodlines, Wild Card, You Gotta Believe |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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