The Cubs and my father are enmeshed in my oft-told Mets fan origin story. It was my dad who’d bring home the Post — when it was an afternoon paper — that featured the recurring cartoon that I credit for sucking me into the ongoing storyline of the 1969 season: the Mets duck doing battle […]
 
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. |
 40 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Charles Prince, Cubs, Fathers and Sons, Rashomon When the Mets’ lineup was first posted in the late afternoon, I stared at it blankly. It might as well have been nine total strangers. I knew they were they players on my team, I knew I had waited for my team to begin playing again, I just didn’t feel any connection to their identities. When […] I long ago worked with a CFO who was fond of quoting the late Everett Dirksen: “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking you’re talking about real money — so cut down on the paper clips.” The paper clips part may have been our CFO’s coda, but you could hear the longtime […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Chris Woodward, Drake LaRoche, Eric Campbell, Everett Dirksen, Joe McEwing, Matt Reynolds, Money, Ruben Tejada The return address on the manila envelope was Citi Field. The postmark was Flushing. The stationery featured a Mets logo. The second word handwritten in looping cursive on the single page enclosed was “Thanks” — so was the second-to-last word. There weren’t many words in between. There didn’t need to be. On December 14, 2011, Shannon […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Shannon Forde Second base, like the beverage-branded seating section that overlooks it at Citi Field, has a new occupant. Neil Walker, unlike Ben Zobrist, turns out to be the real thing. The former Pirate did not get a tour of our leafy suburbs. The Mets don’t care where he lives as long as he shows up for work […] This is a job for Daniel Murphy. Daniel Murphy took on all kinds of jobs in a New York Mets uniform: left fielder, first baseman, second baseman, third baseman, playoff hero, World Series less than hero (to put it kindly)…but the one that fascinated me most was credit deflector. Any time — any time — […] Nice jersey, Dave. David Letterman built an impressive ratings lead once he moved from 12:35 AM on NBC and took over the 11:35 PM time slot on CBS in late August of 1993. All felt right with the comedic if not baseball world as that particular summer turned to fall. The guy who deserved […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, An Appreciation, Bartolo Colon, David Letterman, Joe Orsulak “I hit behind Yogi in one ballgame […] somebody threw him a fastball up in his eyes and Yogi banged it up the middle for a single and I was sitting there on deck going, ‘This is not a game for which I’m familiar…good god.’ To bat behind Yogi Berra, that was awesome.” It wasn’t […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Al Jackson, An Appreciation, Jim Bethke, Johnny Monell, Mets Catchers, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Yogi Berra What the hell’s so funny about Bartolo Colon? After a year and a month of watching him practically every fifth day, I have to admit I don’t get the joke. He’s older than everybody. He’s rounder than everybody. He says less than anybody. He swings through almost everything. His batting helmet flies off with little provocation. Yeah? […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bartolo Colon, Eddie Murray, Juan Lagares, Orioles, Sandy Koufax, Steve Carlton Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we appreciate the best reason to have continued watching game in and game out even when the seasons have pretty much gone to hell. “[You’re] […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, FAFIF Turns Ten, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Ron Darling, SNY |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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