Someday Spring Training will be over. I’m basing that solely on precedent and occasional commercials hawking ticket packages that include access to Opening Day. Otherwise, we’re marooned inside that Journey song that implores us to not stop believing, the one whose movie never ends, it goes on […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Astros, Big Shirtless Noah, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Injuries, Jim Bouton, Jonathan Lucroy, Journey, March, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Spring Training, Terry's Kids, Travin d'Arwecki, Yo La Tengo, Yoenis Cespedes Thinking along the lines of “fewer clients, less money” got Jerry Maguire booted from Sports Management International, but I’ll dare to express one of The Things We Think And Do Not Say: Spring Training shouldn’t have started so soon. Too many Spring Training baseball games in February are unnatural. Too many Spring Training baseball games in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | February, Injuries, Jerry Maguire, Spring Training, Unnatural Baseball Timing Yoenis is trying yoga. Conforto’s hitting from a tee. Alderson’s talking up Tebow. Mickey leaves nobody standing around. Ah, spring!
Matz is sharp. A-Gon is wise. Gsellman’s got flow. Who knew Ramos was a hoot? Ah, spring!
Wheeler will do whatever’s best for the team. Flores will play wherever asked by the team. Frazier is thrilled to be here. It wasn’t known Trump Jr. was going to be […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Eternal Optimism, Matt Reynolds, Spring Training You know it, I know it, we all know it. Pitchers have reported to 525 NW Peacock Blvd. in beautiful Port St. Lucie, Fla. People equipped to catch them are there to meet them. Also in attendance: hopes, dreams, a sense of renewal and blessed repetition. Every February I grow weary of Spring Training. It used […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Harrelson, Catchers, Fatigue, Hope, Pitchers, Pitchers & Catchers, Spring Training Happy one-month anniversary of when the Mets started playing games that didn’t count, don’t count and won’t count until April 3. Spring Training schedules don’t traditionally engender milestones while in progress, but this year, with the World Baseball Classic motivating early birds everywhere, what we call “spring” began in earnest amid the indisputable dead of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Connecticut, L.J. Mazzilli, Lee Mazzilli, Mad Men, Rico Brogna, Ryder Chasin, Spring Training, Staples High School I saw something about the Mets having drills today. Pitching drills? Hitting drills? Fielding drills? Could have been fire drills. Doesn’t matter. My heart was aflutter. The charms of Spring Training can wear thin quickly, but today, in a Metropolitan Area momentarily having sat on its thermometer and thereby warming it to 62 degrees, I am […] I’ll admit that I’ve grown blase about pitchers and catchers reporting. OK, more than blase — indifferent, jaded, cynical, all of the above. Obviously this has nothing to do with a disdain for baseball basics. Rather, it’s that the happy moment is a mere moment. Yes, those are Mets pitchers and Mets catchers out there doing vague baseball […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Spring Training, The Holy Books Could be! The shortest span between seasons in Mets history, from a little after midnight last November 2 to a few hours before midnight this April 3, has, predictably, turned into the longest wait for a new year baseball humanity has ever known. Remember how […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, David Wright, Keith Hernandez, Polo Grounds, Scott Braun, Spring Training, Steven Matz, West Side Story After paying just enough attention to Spring Training to notice the hitters aren’t necessarily behind the pitchers anymore — guys in Mets unis lost 14-9 on Saturday but won 11-0 on Sunday — I realize my anxieties are lagging behind my capacity for calm. That’s a very unusual March alignment. Starting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera might miss […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Wright, Dilson Herrera, Eerie Calm, Goose Gossage, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Spring Training, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Yoenis Cespedes Terry Collins said the other day that “fun time” is over. I hate to disagree with the manager of the defending National League champions, but I’d say fun time is just getting started. Collins was referring to the Yoenis Cespedes Off-Hours Charismatic Carnival, which, to be fair, was loads of fun. More fun than: • a barrel […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carnac, Cars, Golf, Horses, Josh Lewin, Pigs, Spring Training, Step Brothers, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes |
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