Flies who’ve watched Spring Training shake their buzzy little heads and remark on unfortunate colleagues dropping like Mets. Down goes Alvarez (hand). Down goes McNeil (oblique). Down already went Montas and Manaea and the backup infielder Madrigal who wasn’t hyped enough to be saddled with Jed Lowrie comparisons, so at least he’s got that going […]
 
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. |
Before he incurred infamy for the two words he uttered to communicate he wanted no more of his 1980 rematch versus Sugar Ray Leonard — “no más” — Robert Duran was mainly recognized as the fighter who was “pound for pound” the best in the world. Duran is the reason I learned that phrase. For […] “Welcome everybody to Kiner’s Korner, brought to you by Mitsubishi Motors. I’m your host, Ralph Kiner, and today we have three very special guests. My producer told me they would be No. 7, No. 6 and No. 5, so I had my questions ready for Eddie Kranepool, Al Weis, and the Glider, Ed Charles, but […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, Mike Vail, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Ralph Kiner, Ray Sadecki, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver For years, I never forgot where I was when J.C. Martin laid down the bunt that led to the winning run that gave the Mets Game Four and a commanding Three-One lead in the 1969 World Series. I was in the Cozy Nook, the all-purpose luncheonette where I bought most of my baseball cards, magazines […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1969 World Series, First Impressions, J.C. Martin, Marilu Henner, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons Topps created 787 different baseball cards for 1972. I don’t remember how many of them I collected, but at least until the final series I’d say “many,” if not most. With the questionably titled In Action subset; the Awards — what kid doesn’t want to stare at a plaque?; the Boyhood Photos of the Stars; […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 45 RPMs, Baseball Cards, Casey Kasem, Lists, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Wacky Packs, You Gotta Believe The distance from No. 11 to No. 10 on any list is both incremental and immense. Top Ten implies a level above all others. Therefore, with all due respect to all others, welcome to the Top Ten portion of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-‘PRESENT’ (with 2024’s slotting TBD), where things […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Centuries, Derek Bell, Maturity, Mike Hampton, Millennia, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, The Years After, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile Maybe Billy Joel’s Brenda and Eddie could never go back to the green, but I have no compunction about returning to scenes from my own fields of reality. Therefore, I welcome you anew to MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a series counting down just what the title implies. I started […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Billy Joel, Bob Newhart, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Magadan, David Cone, Decades, Donna Summer, Dwight Gooden, Eras, Goodfellas, Julio Valera, Kids in the Hall, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Newspapers, Pat Tabler, Pirates, Roger Angell, The National, Wilson Phillips Today we reach that year in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown when I have to admit I went to sleep sometime in early April and woke up sometime in early November. That must be what happened, because I don’t seem to have any memories of anything that could […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dreams, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Maz, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes 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 […] 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 For someone who writes plenty in the first-person, there’s nonetheless a phrase I try to avoid: “As I’ve written before…” It strikes me as self-aggrandizing, and to this point in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown, I have resisted the temptation to use it or, save for the winking […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Aaron Hellman, Adam Rubin, Beginnings, Content, Dae-Sung Koo, Erasure, Marlon Anderson, Miguel Cairo, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons |
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