 
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. |
On February 17 we lost not one but two Mets. There was no shortage of farewells for Tony Phillips, who died in Scottsdale, Ariz., at 56. And that was to be expected — Phillips racked up 2,023 hits over an 18-year career. Brock Pemberton was the other Met who died on Feb. 17. His death at 62 in Ardmore, Okla., went largely […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brock Pemberton, Fans, Farewells, Moment of Silence, Tony Phillips “It’s pretty hard to say goodbye to anything.” On September 28, we were prepared to say goodbye to the 2014 baseball season and one of its featured players. If the Mets were listed like a movie cast, Bobby Abreu would have been presented last, with a generous “AND” preceding his credit. He was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Abreu, Cafe Edison, Eric Young Jr., Farewells, Hockey, Home, Moment of Silence, RIchie the Cop He was a Met — maybe he didn’t perform to the standards we set for him or to our satisfaction of what we decided he could be, but he was one of ours. He went out there and he did his best. Then one day he was gone and we could only imagine the damage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Farewells, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, One-Hitters, Trades, Zack Thornton Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo Final impressions, from the Mets’ 2012 holiday party at Citi Field. “How does Alderson go about reviving the more dormant aspects of our passion, those which have been dulled by two years of dismal sputtering on the heels of two years of dramatic letdown? By winning, of course. Winning will make us all feel […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Farewells, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson, The Shawshank Redemption It’s scary that as fans, any team’s fans, we get hooked on new players and young players and changes of direction and we’re sure we’re going to benefit — if it’s March — this year or — if it’s September — next year. Yet we just don’t know. It’s the ultimate blind trust. Theoretically, the future […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Busts, Farewells, Fernando Martinez, Mad Men, Prospects “When I’m finished, I’ll get the best seat to see him play. I’ll pay whatever price to see him play.” Somewhere in the midst of the conference call Sandy Alderson held with some of us bloggers last Thursday night, the Mets’ general manager used an unremarkable phrase that caught […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Farewells, Fun, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson, Violation of Trust For a from-the-seats perspective on Closing Day, I’ll bow to my partner, who was actually there. I saw it on SNY, and like a lot of you wound up with emotional whiplash: My euphoria at Jose Reyes’s hit was followed in uncomfortably short order by bafflement that his day was done practically before it began, which […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Farewells, Hope, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins, Wilpons The Mets are playing a day-night doubleheader, and so are we: My take on the day game will be followed by Greg’s report on the nightcap. The Mets’ late-season swoon has annoyed me of late, but the morning still found me down in the dumps. Joshua and I were headed to Citi Field for our last […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Farewells, No-Hitters, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Valentino Pascucci Some Mets I can’t wait to see go. Roberto Alomar in 2003, T#m Gl@v!ne in 2007, Luis Castillo from June 12, 2009 to last Friday…those departures represented addition in my soul via subtraction from the squad. I didn’t much want to pull for them as Mets and I was eventually delivered from that basic responsibility […] |
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