After giving injury rehab his best shot among a flock of Toronto Blue Jay minor leaguers, native Ontarian and lifelong Cincinnati Red Joey Votto announced his retirement on August 22. Johnny Cueto, who made his season debut one day earlier for the Angels, pitched exactly once more in L.A. of A garb. The Halos considered […]
 
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. |
 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, Alex Young, Bob Murphy, Danny Young, Darrell Sutherland, Double Plays, Fran Healy, Gerry Arrigo, Huascar Brazoban, Jesse Winker, Larry Bearnaerth, Longevity, Met Equity, Ralph Kiner, Rich Hill, Shea Stadium, Team History, Walks, Winning Streaks 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 It hit me one March day, when they were apart, how long they’d been together. Yadier Molina was captaining Puerto Rico to the finals of the WBC. Adam Wainwright was working out his kinks against the Mets on the East Coast of Florida. Soon enough, they’d reunite, accomplished battery, same team, another year. Two baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, An Appreciation, Billy Joel, Cardinals, Longevity, Yadier Molina, Zack Wheeler “It has happened! In their fifty-first season, Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!” “And what’s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you’ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bill Veeck, Bobby Thomson, Breaking Bad, Car Wash, Darryl Strawberry, Designated Hitter, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Impossible, Jack Lang, James Shields, Joe Garagiola, Johan Santana, Julio Franco, Ken Davidoff, Kentucky Derby, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Memory, Nyquist, Pitchers Hitting, Ramon Castro, Red Smith, Team History, The Power to Evoke, The Shawshank Redemption, The Total Uselessness of the Designated Hitter, Vin Scully, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes “He called me when we won the division, congratulating me. I tried to return the call, but it’s like getting through to the President when you call the Giants. So I didn’t get through.” The crotchety and the crusty have lost one of their champions. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Football, Longevity, Mets Managers, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Coughlin 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 On Saturday, the Mets will distribute 25,000 bobbleheaded likenesses of Daniel Joseph Staub, which is not the same thing as actual likenesses — the resemblance is primarily hair-deep — and may not be enough for the club to satisfy the honoree’s stated wish that “everyone comes out and gets one.” Nobody likes to imagine Customers […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bobbleheads, Bobby Valentine, Bones Ely, Casey Stengel, Charlie Hough, Connie Mack, Davey Johnson, Dazzy Vance, Dick Tidrow, George Foster, Jim Leyland, Larry Bowa, Longevity, Mike Torrez, Nellie Fox, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tom Paciorek, Tug McGraw |
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