Aw, I missed a triple? I did. I nodded off in the seventh, shortly after Jose Butto came on in relief of Paul Blackburn, the score at Coors Field knotted at two. That’ll happen with any game that starts any time after 7:10 where I sit; then stretch out; then close my eyes for just […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Catchers Tripling, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, John Stearns, Sleep, Triples For Saturday, it will be City Connects getting our attention. On Friday, it was what we might quaintly refer to as a national telecast. Or should we say a globally available stream? Whatever it is called, it was Cardinals at Mets on Apple TV+, which meant the visuals (even if you took advantage of the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apple TV+, Billy Joel, Bothsidesism, Cardinals, Catchers, City Connect, Francisco Alvarez, Identity, Jerry Grote, Joni Mitchell, Jose Butto, Tomas Nido, Zack Short “I was very fortunate to win three-hundred and eleven games, and not many people in the wonderful history of baseball were able to go past three-hundred,” said the man in the suit at the podium. “And you wonder why it happened? All you have to do is look at the individuals that were sixty feet, […] Welcome back to Faith and Fear in Flushing’s recently dormant series 3B-OF/OF-3B, an attempt to understand why the New York Mets have spent so much of their (and our) lives trying to fit guys who play one position well at a position where they inevitably less well. Or, if you care to be sanguine about […] The year is 1970. Or it should be. That was the plan as we approached the third installment of our OF-3B/3B-OF series. We spent one segment focused mainly on 1962, because you can’t begin to understand the Mets’ signature position shuttle without delving into the start of something absurd; and we spent the next segment […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jerry Grote, John Stephenson, Mets Catchers, Mets Outfielders-Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen-Outfielders, Team History, Tommie Reynolds, Wes Westrum, Yogi Berra Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I’ve sometimes imagined an incredibly simple game: Name Every Met. Get a bunch of paper, number the lines 1 through 1,091, and see how many you can fill in. Think of it as the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bonus Babies, Davey Johnson, Jerry Grote, Jesse Owens, Nolan Ryan, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Yogi Berra Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team getting your spot. But never mind that Jacob deGrom was the most stellar Met of the first […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Bobby Bonilla, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Who've Won All-Star Games, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Ron Hunt, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays I’ve spent a good chunk of the winter sulking about Jeurys Familia quick-pitching or Yoenis Cespedes playing base-soccer or Daniel Murphy bringing the glove up or Cespedes charging off first on a soft liner or Terry Collins being too sentimental or Lucas Duda being unable to make a simple throw home or getting to the big stage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Graham, Charlie Neal, Dennis Musgraves, Dick Rusteck, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Joe Hicks, Lost Mets, Minor Leagues, Ray Daviault, Rod Kanehl, Sammy Drake, Shaun Fitzmaurice, Ted Schreiber, The Holy Books, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter Welcome to the beginning of the second decade of existence for Faith and Fear in Flushing, or to put it in reverse and observe it from the more comfortable perspective of the rearview mirror, today is our tenth anniversary. We signed on the blogging air on February 16, 2005, looking ahead not ten years but […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Internal Affairs, Jerry Grote, Tom Parsons The Mets didn’t win last night. Oh well. What were they going to do with a win if they’d attained it, anyway? Throw it on the pile of wins that never quite measures up to their taller pile of losses? Then what? Win again? Come now. Much as youth is said to be wasted on the young […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Gregor Blanco, Jerry Grote, Joe Torre, John Stearns, Josh Edgin, Larry Bearnarth, Losing, Rod Kanehl, Ron Darling, Terry Collins, Todd Hundley, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler |
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