I came across a quote recently: “If you don’t think baseball is a big deal, don’t play it. But if you do, play it right.” The source is Tom Seaver, as told to Pat Jordan in Sports Illustrated in 1972. Tom, as ever, played it right and said it right. Yet even Tom at his […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Baseball Far From Like It Oughta Be, Bob Newhart, Expos, KBO, Marlins, S.O.S. Band, These Challenging Times, Tom Seaver, Town Square There is no such thing as a bad Opening Day win. More to the point, there’s no such thing as an Opening Day win that’s “worse” than any other. I guess that’s all self-evident, but there’s nothing run-of-the-mill about winning on Opening Day. There are no also-rans. Every Opening Day win is, at the moment […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Carter, Home Opener, Home Openers, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Team History, Tom Seaver Welcome to the eleventh and concluding chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Eddie Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Met of the Decade, Mets of the 2010s, Tom Seaver Tom Seaver is 75 years old today. We join the multitudes of baseball fans in wishing him a happy birthday and a happy day every day. We miss him. He’s still with us in the most elemental sense, yet we wish he could assert his presence like he did not so long ago. A ceremonial first […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Milestones, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday If you set your DVR to record Seaver on Sunday or early Monday, you may think your unit was manufactured by M. Donald Grant, for neither the scheduled 4:30 PM showing on Channel 5 in New York nor the 1:00 AM airing on FS1 went off hitchless. That’s the danger in saying something will run […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Documentaries, Media Guide Guy, Tom Seaver “At 10:13 P.M., it became officially official. The Cubs had lost, 6-2. Even if the Mets lost the second game, they would still be first. Millennium, we are here. But the Mets were no longer in a mood to lose anything.” 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1969 Mets, Amed Rosario, Cramps, Curtis Granderson, Doubleheader Sweeps, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Brigham, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Over .500, Pete Alonso, Radio and TV Not in Sync, Robert Dugger, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Solo Home Runs, The West Wing, Tom Seaver, Walker Lockett On Saturday afternoon, July 17, 1976, I saw Lloyd Waner hit and Tom Seaver pitch. Same place, different games. Waner appeared in the Old Timers Game at sunny Shea Stadium. At 13, I considered it a hoot that someone from the dusty pages of baseball’s distant past stood in the box and swung the bat, […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1976 Mets, 41 Seaver Way, Lloyd Waner, Old Timers Day, Past, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler It was sometime after nine o’clock in the morning Thursday. Seattle and Oakland were playing the second game of the regular season in Tokyo. The date was March 21. The year was 2019. Ichiro Suzuki was being celebrated for concluding a career that spanned two continents and […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Free Agency, Future Shock, Ichiro Suzuki, Japan, Mike Trout, Rules Changes, Tom Seaver Tom Seaver is no longer a public figure. Lyme disease and its long-term effects have assured we won’t see him when the living members of the 1969 Mets gather at Citi Field in late June to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a world championship that Seaver never viewed as […] Fifteenth anniversaries don’t get much play in our milestone-mad media. Ones, Fives, Tens, Twenties and up the line, sure, they’re money. But with rare exception, nobody gets too worked up over the crystal anniversary, not named for Billy Crystal, though I can see where the potential association might be […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Ed Kranepool, Jason Isringhausen, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Metropolitan Quinceañera, Mike Jorgensen, Milestones, Team History, Tom Seaver |
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