“Number Twenty Twenty-Two!”
“I’m Twenty Twenty-Two.”
“Your order is ready.”
“What’s this supposed to be?”
“It’s the baseball you ordered.”
“I asked for it by March 31. You made me wait an extra week. I suppose I should be happy you didn’t make me wait a week or more beyond that!”
“It’s the baseball you ordered.”
“Hell, I suppose I should be […]
 
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. |
The last two instances of the Baseball Equinox, marking the spot when we sit equidistant between the final out of last season and the scheduled first pitch of next season, were rendered inoperative in retrospect once COVID had its way with them. The opening of the entire 2020 baseball season was pushed back to July […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Mets, 2022 Mets, Baseball Equinox, New Year's Eve, No Guarantees Buck Showalter and the other, now irrelevant candidates for the Mets’ managerial opening were reportedly summoned to Steve Cohen’s home in Connecticut for their respective face-to-face interviews. They probably didn’t travel in quite the style that Casey Stengel did when he was accepting the keys to the Polo Grounds dugout sixty years ago. “We arrived […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Buck Showalter, Casey Stengel, Experience, Mets Managers So far, the highlight of Max Scherzer’s career as a New York Met is he has agreed to a contract of $130 million over three years to be a New York Met. It won’t show up in the main statistical body of Scherzer’s Baseball-Reference entry, but it’s more than a lot of recent Mets have […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2022 Mets, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Megacontracts, Optimism, Steve Cohen When you accept the post of Steve Cohen’s personal shopper the week before Black Friday, you can expect to work the holiday weekend. Billy Eppler didn’t let the specter of ”unprofessional” agents sliding down the chimney deter him from his appointed cart-filling rounds. Somewhere between five and midnight on Friday evening, news oozed that the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Black Friday, Eduardo Escobar, Free Agency, Mark Canha, Starling Marte It’s not a trade in the sense that the Mets and Angels got together and exchanged personnel that they had any contractual right to exchange. Billy Eppler hasn’t worked for the Angels for a while. Noah Syndergaard entered free agency. That the former Angels GM is reportedly heading east to take the same job with […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2022 Mets, Arrivals, Billy Eppler, Departures, General Manager, Noah Syndergaard Wayne Randazzo wasn’t wrong Tuesday when he outlined ways baseball could speed up its action. Specifically, he preached adoption of a pitch clock like that used in the minors to get games moving faster and, ultimately, over faster. But his partner du jour, Lee Mazzilli, wasn’t wrong, either, when he asked Wayne in apparent sincerity, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Ed Grimley, Lee Mazzilli, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, September, Twilight |
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