Of all the key offseason hires approved by Steve Cohen, I haven’t seen the name Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong appointed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, or whatever title would imply a person has been brought in to help the Mets figure out what to do next. No wonder she’s not in Flushing, […]
 
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 |  2023 Mets, David Robertson, Dido, Drew Gilbert, Justin Verlander, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Quick Draw McGraw, Ryan Clifford, Sensible Surrender, Sometimes You Don’t Gotta Believe, South Park, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham In 2022, the Mets finally got the past right. It feels so good to rattle off the roll call of their history-acknowledging triumphs; Nancy Seaver offering her benediction at the reveal of the Tom Seaver Statue on April 15; the retirement of Keith Hernandez’s 17 on July 9; the syncing of Gil Hodges Bobblehead Night […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2022 Postseason, 60th Anniversary, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Placards, Satisfaction, Sparky Lyle, Team History, The Simpsons, The Sopranos In Bicentennial Detroit, when Mark Fidrych was in full flight, The Bird was the word. On TV in the 1950s, a duck delivered the $100 prize to contestants on You Bet Your Life who used Groucho Marx’s secret word. Frankie Valli ruffled few feathers when he informed us repeatedly in the summer of ’78 that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Directions, First Place, Frankie Valli, Groucho Marx, Mark Fidrych, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Suffixes This time his observations were outrunning his understanding. This vague America he was now reporting was swelling with strange, vague forms which his thinking could no longer shape into clean stories. No piling up of more reportorial facts, no teasing anecdote, no embracing concept, could hide from him what was wrong: his old ideas no […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Change, Designated Hitter, Distance, Goodfellas, Mets Yearbook, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Progress, Theodore White, Trevor May, Yearbook EDITOR’S NOTE: To help us through these troubled times, today we dig into the Faith and Fear archives and share posts that some of our longtime readers might get a kick out of seeing again or our newer readers might enjoy checking out for the first time. This one originally ran on November 10, 1980, […] In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] At first he lingered in the shadows of 2018, less an afterthought than a forethought swiftly whisked to the side. In the running log I kept of the large and small details that filled the Mets season (not to be confused with this here blog), his name […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, 2018 Mets, Captain, David Wright, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year Did Citi Field seem roomier to you in 2017? There were 328,980 fewer customers paying their way into the old ballgames there than there were in 2016 — and we know paid “attendance” doesn’t fully reflect the relationship between fannies and seats. The approximate 11.8% drop in official visitation to the home of the Mets […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year We now join a traditionally accurate version of “Meet The Mets,” already in progress. ’Cause the Mets are really That’s not how it goes, but it is a reflection of Mets baseball like it oughta be, right? This is the pitching-rich organization, the franchise defined by the Franchise, whose most delicate […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home Runs, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, Team History “It is a vital part of American sports that the present is tethered to the past,” Tim Layden recently wrote in Sports Illustrated. As a line of thinking, it’s completely understandable and not necessarily undesirable. If we’re any kind of long-term fans, we root for whom we root because we’ve rooted for whom we’ve rooted. […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Precedent |
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