 
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. |
Can ya hear us, Pittsburgh? After spending a slice of my Tuesday afternoon listening to Dave Hudgens complain about “negativity” and Sandy Alderson indicate he can’t spend more money on players until it is liberated from True New Yorkers’ pockets, a dispassionate consumer of Mets baseball might have been ready to devote his time […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dave Hudgens, Jenrry Mejia, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Mets Fans, Passion, Sandy Alderson, True New Yorkers, Vic Black Some things that don’t matter: * Ike Davis vs. Lucas Duda. Ike’s doing a lot better in Pittsburgh. That’s great. He was a mess in New York, capable of spending months looking unsure which end of the bat was up. Ike wasn’t going to get fixed here, so I wish him the best there. Duda came […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bud Selig, Dave Hudgens, Fans, Hopelessness, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jose Valverde, Josh Lewin, Keith Hernandez, Lucas Duda, Sandy Alderson, Stupid Bullshit, Wilpons FREE [SO-AND-SO]!!! It’s a common cry when things start to go south for a team, meant to rally the segment of the fanbase that self-identifies as sensible, but it can be used in different ways. Sometimes it’s a sabermetric cudgel for bashing those whose reliance on “old” stats keep them from seeing an underutilized player’s true value. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Abreu, Eric Young Jr., Juan Lagares, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores Leo Durocher would have relished this weekend in Las Vegas. The Cactus League Cubs — the team he managed to its only oasis of success in a nearly 40-year schlep through a desert of futility, and the Grapefruit Circuit Mets — the team that inevitably turned 1969 into a Near North Side mirage, will square […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Aspirations, Fred Wilpon, Hope, Leo Durocher, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training, The Sopranos Past Here’s a sign of spring: The 2014 Topps cards are out. Let’s not go overboard: This isn’t the greatest set. The photography’s good again, but Topps has developed an unfortunate predilection for novelty shots, with far too many players romping with teammates (and often on dreaded horizontal cards), getting doused with Gatorade or showing off Oscar […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Hope, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Drew, The Holy Books, Trades, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Carlos Beltran shouldn’t feel so bad about Mets ownership’s attitude toward him a few years ago as he counts his Yankee dollars in the present. The unfortunate Trailways Toss of his reputation — a.k.a. throwing Beltran under the bus over knees not healed and hospitals not visited — seems to have hastened a change in […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Media, Mets Holiday Party, Ray Knight, Sandy Alderson Oh, you suddenly wacky Mets. No sooner had I fallen back into despair and trotted out my Sandy as Charlie Brown, Jeff as Lucy cartoon than it was announced that the Mets had signed Bartolo Colon — who’s equal parts huge, old and good — to a two-year contract that, like Curtis Granderson not long before, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Citi Field, Fans, Kids, Sandy Alderson, Tom Seaver, Wilpons Sometimes you find yourself a defender of the conventional wisdom. Here’s Brian Mangan on the Mets signing Curtis Granderson. His take is smart, and it ain’t pretty. But I’m still happy. The baseball stuff I’ll deal with quickly: I take heart from the fact that Granderson’s nightmarish 2013 was driven by not one but two bone-breaking HBPs, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Despair, Fans, Justin Turner, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons ’Twas four weeks before Christmas That was it for a spell The fans became restless The club sent out e-mails Eyes […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Chris Young, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Thanksgiving The Mets on Saturday lost their third dull game in a row by the same dull score to the same dull opponent. With a win Sunday, they can forge the same dull 74-88 record they compiled last year. They still have a chance to finish in third place, which would be a step up from […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Cult of Mediocrity, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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