It hasn’t been the greatest offseason for following Mets’ news in our family — Joshua’s REYES jersey is gone, though I can’t bear to dismantle the diptych of Reyes and Wright above his bed — but the beat does go on. This winter, Joshua and I (often with Emily alongside) watched all of Ken Burns’s […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Barry Bonds, Casey Stengel, Family Tradition, Fathers and Sons, Jackie Robinson, Ken Burns, Roger Angell, Team History On Friday night the Mets looked like a team that had been up all night, which they were. Balls got muffed, the Angels took full advantage, and .500 retreated from view once again. It was predictable, perhaps even understandable, but dispiriting nonetheless. On Saturday night things were different. Emily and I were there, sitting in awesome seats […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Citi Field, Dan Haren, Family Tradition, Fans, Mike Pelfrey Ah, the rites of the Friday afternoon before the first Friday night of the first Subway Series game of the year… Is that tonight? I’d forgotten all about it. Seems they used to make a bigger deal out of it. Whatever, I don’t care. It’s just another game. It’s gotten old. This doesn’t matter more than any other series. It isn’t what it […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Family Tradition, Mets Fan Philosophy, Posadenfreude, Subway Series Maybe you thought this was the night. And why not? The baseball gods enjoy a good laugh as much as any other cosmic entities, so why wouldn’t Dillon Gee — he of the Triple-A ERA near 5.00 and the penchant for gopher balls — do what Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan and Jerry Koosman and Jon […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Debuts, Dillon Gee, Family Tradition, Fans, No-Hitters, Willie Harris On Saturday Emily and I were watching the game upstairs with my visiting parents, while Joshua was downstairs looking at the TV in our bedroom. (I don’t remember why this came about — he wasn’t being punished or anything. Unless you count watching the Mets as punishment, which right now I’d have trouble disputing.) So Rod […] |
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