One of the core tenets to emerge amid the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown is that the bromide “it’s not where you start, it’s where you finish” lacks foolproofitude. Sometimes the best part of a season is the start. Sometimes it’s somewhere in the middle. Sometimes it’s in the […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 Mets, Billy Wagner, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Droughts, Endy Chavez, Football, J.D. Martinez, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Mets Jackets, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hernandez, Paul Lo Duca, Staying Alive Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Faith and Fear in Flushing, founded February 16, 2005. For the now twenty Spring Trainings that this blog has existed, we have set out annually in the sincere hope that the Met season ahead serves as prelude to a Met postseason. That’s really all you can ask of a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Anniversaries, Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Humility, Internal Affairs, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Postseason Acknowledgment, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Stripes, T.J. Rivera, That Thing You Do, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to the second installment of MY FAVORITE MET SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a continuation of the project I introduced on my birthday. The ten seasons spotlighted below I liked a little more than the dozen I counted down on December 31, not as much as the thirty-three that are still […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1989 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, 2021 Mets, Brad Emaus, Danny Frisella, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Jason Pridie, Jimmy Carter, Jose Reyes, Ken Singleton, Lance Johnson, Leroux, LFO, Lou Grant, Murray Head, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, New Kids On The Block, Rosalynn Carter, Tim Teufel, Todd Hundley, Willie Harris I got a huge kick out of leafing through the 1967 Mets Yearbook years after it was published and finding that even then Ed Kranepool, a mere 24 yet the only Met left from the Mets’ first year of 1962, was referred to as “The Dean” of the Mets in terms of continuous service with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bob Moorhead, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Cannizzaro, Continuity, Darryl Strawberry, David Robertson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Frank Thomas, Hubie Brooks, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, John Franco, Jose Quintana, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Justin Verlander, Longevity, Mad Men, Mets Once Removed, Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Seniority, Steve Cohen, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Dean, Wally Backman In 1969, 1973, 2000 and 2015, the Mets qualified for the postseason without the benefit of capturing their first game after the All-Star break, thus if you need a little precedent to take the edge off the first game the 2022 Mets played in five days leaving you wondering if they thought Friday night was […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ledesma, All-Star Break, Armando Benitez, Billy Eppler, Bubba Trammell, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Charlie Puleo, Chasen Bradford, Chris Woodward, Colin Holderman, Daniel Vogelbach, Eric Hosmer, J.C. Martin, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cairo, Nolan Ryan, Old Friends, Passion, Second Half, Second-Half Openers, Team History, Trades, Yu Darvish On August 8, 1963, the day after Jim Hickman hit for the first cycle in Mets history, the Mets won again, 3-2, with first baseman Duke Carmel (one of two Dukes to play for the Mets that day at the Polo Grounds) hitting the deciding home run in the eighth inning. Between Carmel’s big blow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aftermath, Alex Ochoa, Cycles, Eduardo Escobar, Eric Valent, Jim Hickman, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin McReynolds, Mike Phillips, Pete Alonso, Scott Hairston, Starling Marte, Team History, Tommie Agee Ten years ago this month, Mets fans hung on the statistic of batting average. Never mind that analytic understanding had taken its toll on the popular utility of what used to be considered the defining standard of hitting excellence. Never mind OPS. Never mind WAR. A Met was competing for the highest batting average in […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Batting Average, Bryan De La Cruz, Decisions, Edwin Diaz, Frank Larry, Glengarry Glen Ross, Jim Maloney, Jose Reyes, Larry Bearnarth, Lewin Diaz, Luis Rojas, Rich Hill, Sandy Alcantara Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Edgardo Alfonzo, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Martinez, Steve Trachsel 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. July 21, 2004 was a hot and sticky day in New York, with the temperature in the high 80s and a night that didn’t promise to be much more comfortable. The Mets were bumping […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Brian Schneider, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Max Rubin, Peter O'Brien, Trevor Richards, Ty Wigginton 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. One must wait until the evening In the film Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks stars as Daniel Miller, a Californian who dies in a car […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Albert Brooks, Barry Manilow, Jason Phillips, Jose Reyes, T-shirts |
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