For someone who writes plenty in the first-person, there’s nonetheless a phrase I try to avoid: “As I’ve written before…” It strikes me as self-aggrandizing, and to this point in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown, I have resisted the temptation to use it or, save for the winking […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2005 Mets, Aaron Hellman, Adam Rubin, Beginnings, Content, Dae-Sung Koo, Erasure, Marlon Anderson, Miguel Cairo, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons The headline didn’t have much on The Onion. “Farnsworth,” it reported, “rides bus without being Met.” Well, I thought, that’s too bad. It would have been nice if somebody had picked up Farnsworth, but sometimes you just have to walk home from the bus stop. Of course it didn’t require much of a double-take to realize […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Dennis D'Agostino, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Kyle Farnsworth, Sportswriting, Twitter As Charlie Rich taught me when I was just a lad listening to WGBB, people like to talk, lord, don’t they love to talk. When they can’t talk, they whisper. Sometimes the whispering works as such: • First somebody whispers to somebody about this guy. • Then somebody disseminates the whispers about the guy. • Then everybody rushes […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Whisper Campaigns We can all agree Niese didn’t have it and the Mets did little against Happ and missing the Astros is something that sounds good in theory, but at this moment they can’t move to the American League soon enough for our tastes. The Mets, a pretty good club in April, started May by losing again […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Gregg Jefferies, Hofstra Conference, Howie Rose, Jack Lang, Language, Let's Go Mets, Marty Noble, Mike Vail, Rheingold, Victor Diaz The only surprise, one supposes, is it didn’t happen at three in the morning. No, this time it was around 3:45 in the afternoon, televising the execution live on their own network. They planned to off Tony Bernazard. Instead they shot themselves in the foot — a foot that must be made of titanium. They shot off […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Omar Minaya, public relations, Tony Bernazard |
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