 
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. |
Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we notice how Met turnover subtly became Met stability. There was an article in the Washington Post the other day that fascinated me. It informed […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Team History You’d have to be made of iron, or perhaps impaired by Iron City, to not feel absolutely overjoyed for Pittsburgh Pirates fans this morning. You know the figures. They’ve been drummed into you ever since they coalesced into a thing: not in the playoffs since 1992; not even a winning record since 1992; not much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Postseason, Jerry Manuel, Pirates, Playoff Droughts, Reds, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins It was a win, which made it much better than a loss, but for a Mets fan, it was mostly uneasy. The Mets were making their second Sunday Night Baseball appearance of 1998 on ESPN, their twentieth overall. The previous nineteen — beginning with the very first SNB telecast in 1990 and running through early […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Billy Wagner, Brian McRae, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Delgado, ESPN, Jason Bay, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Mo Vaughn, Replay, Robin Ventura, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History, Victor Zambrano, Willie Randolph Sandy Alderson’s honeymoon period as Mets GM is apparently over now that he’s decided to hand the managerial reins to Terry Collins. At least that’s what you’d conclude from the squawking on the FAN and in certain web precincts. I’m trying to figure out why, exactly. Yes, I’m aware that once upon a time Terry Collins had […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, Jerry Manuel, Managers, Mo Vaughn, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trust, Wally Backman George H.W. Bush, one of six U.S. presidents to have served while a Wilpon has been running the Mets, once attempted to combat perceptions that he was oblivious to people’s problems by declaring, “Message: I care.” Bill Clinton, the president who succeeded him when that message proved unconvincing, famously empathized with Americans, “I feel your […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Bill Clinton, Fred Wilpon, General Manager, George H.W. Bush, Hope, Jeff Wilpon, Jerry Manuel, Mets Managers, Omar Minaya, Ownership, public relations, Team History Yo DJ, pump this party! The song is called “I’m Gonna Get You,” a snappingly energetic dance number. I remember hearing it quite a bit on Z-100 in the summer of 1993 and enjoying it enough to purchase the 12-inch single. Very, very catchy. Listen to it for yourself here — if you’ve been attending Mets […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Bizarre Inc., Closing Day, Jerry Manuel, Oliver Perez Six years ago today, the Mets were proactively pulling the plug on one era in hopes of jump-starting the next one. At Shea Stadium on Sunday, October 3, 2004, the Mets were severing ties with their manager, inaugurating a new front office administration and putting the latest in a string of disappointing seasons to bed. Beyond […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, 2010 Mets, Closing Day, Jerry Manuel, Omar Minaya, Same Old Song If a manager and a general manager fall in the forest of rumors and you don’t hear it, did it happen? If the buzz surrounding a potential double-dismissal drowns out the noise from a walkoff home run, did the dinger make a sound? And if you’re standing in a deserted dugout after batting practice has […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 30 Rock, Blogging, Chris Carter, Delta Club, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Josh Thole, Media, Mike Pelfrey, Omar Minaya, public relations, R.A. Dickey, West Wing On September 28, 2010, Ruben Tejada came to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning with a pair of runners on base and the Mets down 3-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers. He belted a double to deep left field. Ike Davis scored from third. Pinch-runner Luis Castillo chugged home from first. The Mets, already […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Attendance, Bill Pulsipher, Craig Brazell, Jeff Francoeur, Jeromy Burnitz, Jerry Manuel, Jose Bautista, Lenny Harris, Luis Lopez, Mike Francesa, Mike Nickeas, One-Game Playoffs, Rangers, Rays, Ruben Tejada, Tampa Bay, Team History, The Ruben; Reds, The Simpsons, Tim Bogar, Tropicana Field, Victor Diaz, Walkoffs The Mets have lost six in a row for the first time all season and have fallen five games below .500 for the first time all season. It is said you shouldn’t necessarily trust everything you see out of a team in September, yet I find it surprising we didn’t see this kind of downward […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, David Wright, Jerry Manuel, Losing Streak, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Slides, Typical |
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