 
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. |
A pal asked me the other day how I felt about the Mets’ offseason, and I said I was happy. “But of course,” I added, “there’s accepting the fact that nothing much is going to happen.” Fiscal responsibility is a laudable thing after a run of stupidity: It isn’t just Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez that […]  26 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Hope, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson Looking back, you could see that as the last moment when the sports business was at human scale, a club where everybody knew who was who. Why wouldn’t you want to be around baseball in December? It’s so much better than everything else December has to offer. Tuesday, December 14, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Media, Mets Holiday Party, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Winter See, Don? This is the way to behave. I once had to transcribe a lengthy interview with a top executive in the industry I covered. He concluded just about every answer to just about every question with a sentence that began, “At the end of the day…” The deeper into the tape I got, the […] My sister gave me the news thirty years ago this morning: John Lennon was murdered last night. My first thought was the next thing Suzan said: “Now they’ll never get back together.” Lennon’s assassination (which always sounded strange, in that politicians got “assassinated,” but what else could you call it?) was one of those events that just […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1981 Mets, 2011 Mets, Anniversaries, Boof Bonser, D.J. Carrasco, Dave Winfield, Frank Cashen, Free Agents, John Lennon, Patience, Ronny Paulino, Sandy Alderson Clearly the Terry Collins era should be sponsored by an energy drink. Let’s hope it’s not Four Loko. I watched our new manager’s literally bouncy introductory press conference and came away with one overwhelming impression: “This dude is into it.” If he was worried about being identified as laconic, I think he’s got that licked. A […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Broadcast News, Four Loko, Hope, Media, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins Somebody thinks Terry Collins is exactly what the New York Mets need in 2011 and 2012. Fine. Let’s see what he’s got. Managerial choices don’t reveal themselves as brilliant or idiotic in the fall that they’re made. It’s in the fall that comes after the first spring and the first summer that we are able to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Fans, Mets Managers, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins Sandy Alderson’s honeymoon period as Mets GM is apparently over now that he’s decided to hand the managerial reins to Terry Collins. At least that’s what you’d conclude from the squawking on the FAN and in certain web precincts. I’m trying to figure out why, exactly. Yes, I’m aware that once upon a time Terry Collins had […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, Jerry Manuel, Managers, Mo Vaughn, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trust, Wally Backman Bob Melvin. Terry Collins. Terry Collins. Bob Melvin. Really? That’s the best Team Genius can do for serious managerial candidates? Seriously? Yeesh. Caveat: I haven’t interviewed Bob Melvin or Terry Collins. I haven’t worked with them. I haven’t spoken to their peers. I haven’t played baseball for either of them. Thus, I could be missing whatever it is that has […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Melvin, Bobby Cox, Managers, Mets Managers, Sandy Alderson, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins Our whole year builds up to these kinds of Fall Classic moments: we anticipate every move; we dissect every morsel of potential strategy; we hang on every word written and spoken in advance…and then, finally, the big event takes place. For us Mets fans, offseason press conferences are our version of World Series games — except […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, 2011 Mets, David Wright, Hope, Jose Reyes, Matt Cain, Michael Kay, Michael Young, Mike Francesa, New Era, Sandy Alderson Sandy Alderson is reported far and wide as a done deal for Mets GM, likely to be announced as official on Friday. Then what? Why, he will whip this sad sack outfit into shape; imbue it with a perpetually winning, statistically driven philosophy; stock it with a finely calibrated mix of veterans and youngsters; fill out the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Expectations, General Manager, Hope, Sandy Alderson |
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