When I first started identifying as a Mets fan, fifty years ago late this summer, you couldn’t have convinced me the Mets could do wrong. There was no evidence to support the assertion. The Mets mostly won. The rare defeat, such as that experienced by the Mets in Baltimore to open the World Series, was […]
 
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. |
 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, Anniversaries, Celebrations, Chris Mazza, Ed Kranepool, Howie Rose, Jesse Hudson, Jim Gosger, Losing Streaks, Milestones, Old Timers Day Moments after Jeff McNeil launched his first Citi Field home run to the branded soft drink pavilion overhanging right field, he was still giddy. Why wouldn’t he have been? McNeil joined the major leagues and the Mets on July 24. Almost everything is a first for him. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Austin Jackson, Brief Tribute Videos, Ed Kranepool, Forever, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Prince, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores Fifteenth anniversaries don’t get much play in our milestone-mad media. Ones, Fives, Tens, Twenties and up the line, sure, they’re money. But with rare exception, nobody gets too worked up over the crystal anniversary, not named for Billy Crystal, though I can see where the potential association might be […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Ed Kranepool, Jason Isringhausen, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Metropolitan Quinceañera, Mike Jorgensen, Milestones, Team History, Tom Seaver It would be out of character for me to not cheerlead the return of Jose Reyes to the New York Mets for his twelfth non-consecutive season in orange and blue, so RAH-RAH, I say, that Reyes is back without having gone anywhere. If I could grandfather in the four seasons he was elsewhere (and fully excise from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continuity, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Ty Kelly, Warren Spahn Early Sunday afternoon, Christmas Eve, my wife and I were riding the LIRR westbound into the city. We were rolling slightly beyond Forest Hills, which meant Woodside was the next station. My instinct was to stand, approach the vestibule and wait for the train to pull in so I could step off and walk the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Anxiety, Ed Kranepool, Jose Lobaton, Omar Minaya Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing “Essentially, though, these were young men, seizing the opportunity to make the careers all normal ball players yearn for — victory, earning power, fame, respect. They were no different from the dozens of other young clubs that had suddenly found themselves, all through baseball history, in some dramatic season. The comic origins of the name […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, First Place, Leonard Koppett, Michael Conforto, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes When Dillon Gee pitches, the Mets maintain an excellent chance to win even though he doesn’t overpower hitters. And when multiple Mets hit home runs when a pitcher of Gee’s caliber pitches…well, look for yourself in case you forgot there was a game Wednesday afternoon. I didn’t, because I generally don’t, and I enjoyed the resulting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Al Moran, Andrew Brown, Choo Choo Coleman, Dillon Gee, Duke Carmel, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Joe Hicks, Leonard Shecter, Lucas Duda, Pumpsie Green, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tim Harkness, Tracy Stallard Considering the surfeit of extra-inning affairs the Mets have brought us in 2013, you might think something called the Citi Field Sleepover would seem superfluous. Yet the Mets scheduled one (as you may have picked up on from the handful of commercials they ran for it every five minutes), and a hardy band of Mets […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field Sleepover, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Ryder Chasin Zack Wheeler’s soon going to be able to say something no Met, from Richie Ashburn to Carlos Torres — not even magnificent Matt Harvey — can say: “I was born in the 1990s.” Yes, gentle reader, you’re getting old, but this isn’t about you. This is about the New York Mets promoting and pitching, as precipitation and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Giles, Decade-First Mets, Ed Kranepool, Felix Mantilla, Garry Sheffield, George Foster, Jim Beauchamp, Joe Vitko, Julio Franco, Pat Strange, Richie Ashburn, Team History, Tim Foli, Warren Spahn, Zack Wheeler |
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