Maybe Billy Joel’s Brenda and Eddie could never go back to the green, but I have no compunction about returning to scenes from my own fields of reality. Therefore, I welcome you anew to MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a series counting down just what the title implies. I started […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1990 Mets, Billy Joel, Bob Newhart, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Magadan, David Cone, Decades, Donna Summer, Dwight Gooden, Eras, Goodfellas, Julio Valera, Kids in the Hall, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Newspapers, Pat Tabler, Pirates, Roger Angell, The National, Wilson Phillips I came across a quote recently: “If you don’t think baseball is a big deal, don’t play it. But if you do, play it right.” The source is Tom Seaver, as told to Pat Jordan in Sports Illustrated in 1972. Tom, as ever, played it right and said it right. Yet even Tom at his […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Baseball Far From Like It Oughta Be, Bob Newhart, Expos, KBO, Marlins, S.O.S. Band, These Challenging Times, Tom Seaver, Town Square I’ve got one word for Daniel Murphy, and it’s not because he’s the brother of either of my parents, because he’s not. The word is “Uncle.” I’ll say it again: Uncle, as in stop it, stop it, stop it. I give. You’re the man. You never should have been allowed to escape to Washington. You should’ve been […] 54 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Newhart, Daniel Murphy, hindsight, Max Scherzer, My Cousin Vinny, Skid Rowe |
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