When they announce the next year’s baseball schedule I take a look, because how can’t you? But after a couple of glances — When’s the home opener? How many times do we go to the West Coast? — I go back to whatever I was doing. The dates are far off, you have no idea […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Nola, Alex Young, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Quintana, Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Roger Clemens The first half of Wednesday’s game burbled vaguely out of my phone from a waterproof pouch around my neck: It was Opening Day for kayak season, so first I was sitting in a boat off a Brooklyn Bridge Park pier making sure people didn’t drown or do anything dopey and then I was hauling racks […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baby Mets, Brandon Marsh, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, Defense, Francisco Lindor, Mark Canha, Phillies, Roger Clemens, Trea Turner Yoan Lopez came up and in on Nolan Arenado in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s almost incidental Mets loss to the Cardinals. Like what Shawn Estes threw in the greater geographic vicinity of Roger Clemens’s backside twenty years ago, Lopez’s pitch didn’t touch the batter he was facing. Unlike with Estes, Lopez’s pitch did […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Baseball Etiquette, Buck Showalter, Cardinals, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Davis, Kabuki, Nolan Arenado, Roger Clemens, Shawn Estes, Yoan Lopez 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. True confessions time: When the rumor surfaced in the spring of 1998 that the Mets were about to acquire Mike Piazza, I was against the idea. Vehemently against it, in fact. The Mets, I […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Jeff Juden, Mike Piazza, Ramiro Mendoza, Roger Clemens, Shea Stadium, Ted Williams, Terry Mulholland Todd Hundley was at Thursday’s Mets game. He suited up and strapped it on in the bottom of the second when Lucas Duda added him to his pass list. Duda hit a home run that admitted one Hundley. Lucas’s blast evoked from the past the catcher who still owns half of the Mets’ single-season home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2005 Mets, Armando Benitez, Dan Wheeler, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Mookie Wilson, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Team History, Time, Todd Hundley, Trades, Victor Diaz In 2003, when Roger Clemens was riding high as a power pitcher throwing hard well beyond his years (somehow), he let it be known when the Hall of Fame came calling for his inevitable membership, he’d insist on going in as a Yankee. If Cooperstown dared portray him as a Red Sock, well, he just […] First things first: The Mets beat the Pirates without particularly breaking a sweat, and in Pittsburgh, no less. Unlike Greg, I’ve never been to PNC. I’d love to go someday. Last summer, I was even fantasizing about going this summer. And I would, except for not having enough money or time, […] I enjoyed this post yesterday by The Vertex’s Eric Bienenfeld about this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, which included a Met who almost was — Barry Larkin — as well as Roberto Alomar, a Met we could have done without. (Robby will probably get in next year, which would be fine with me — longtime […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Escobar, Prospects, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Steve Phillips, What Ifs, Yankee Hating |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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