 
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. |
Matt Harvey is a beast. Just ask the Reds. Harvey fanned eight, didn’t allow a runner until he hit Ryan Ludwick leading off the fifth (Ludwick, channeling Reggie Sanders, glared death at him), and didn’t allow a hit until three batters later, when Scott Rolen hit a little roller that Justin Turner could only surround. He […] In the bottom of the second inning last night, the umpires made R.A. Dickey cut two small friendship bracelets off the wrist of his glove hand — bracelets his daughters had given to him in January, before he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Yes really. My suspicions — and those of probably every other Mets fan — immediately focused […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anger, Dusty Baker, Hopelessness, James Hoye, MLB, R.A. Dickey, Reds, Umpires Once in a while, particularly in a season that’s wandered dutifully into its gone-to-hell portion, the Mets will play a game that, like a piece of black, volcanic glass in Andy Dufresne’s favorite Maine hayfield, has no earthly business on their ledger. It will be tense, it will be tight, it will be gripping…even if […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jay Bruce, Josh Edgin, Mat Latos, Scoreless Games, The Shawshank Redemption Forty seasons of home games at Shea Stadium and Citi Field. Literally hundreds of visits. Wins. Losses. Elation. Heartbreak. The gamut of human emotions. The whole bit. Except for a ball. I had never gotten a ball from the field of play. Not foul, not fair, not batting practice. Mine. But that has changed. Thirty-nine years […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Actual Baseball, Batting Practice, Blogging, Bobby Ojeda, Carlos Lee, Greg Dobbs, LOOK OUT Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson Cassandra: One who predicts misfortune or disaster Pollyanna: A person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything CassieClub: OMG!!! Johan DONE!!!!!! PollyPorch: Johan looked fine. A few tough breaks. CassieClub: Whats ERA since no no??? A THOUSAND?????? PollyPorch: Mechanics OK. Velocity OK. Some lucky hits. CassieClub: NEVER SHOULD HAVE LET HIM THROW 134!!!!!! PollyPorch: That was 2 […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Freddie Freeman, Johan Santana, Reasonable People Can Disagree Each Matt Harvey start transports me to a better place — a better place than third, even if the Mets have been stuck there since well before he came up and will have to keep what’s left of their act together to remain there. (Hard-to-believe fact: the Mets, despite losing 20 of their last 28, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, 1983 Mets, Matt Harvey, MercyMe, Paul Maholm, Six Feet Under, Winning First off, a fearless prediction: R.A. Dickey is not going to win the Cy Young award. He’ll be deserving — he’s got a good chance to lead the league in strikeouts and maybe wins, and he’ll be up there among the ERA leaders. And I have no doubt that he’ll be mentioned alongside Ryan Vogelsong and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Game Winners, Andres Torres, knuckleball, R.A. Dickey, Tony La Russa Let’s get the part that made me mad out of the way: In the bottom of the first, Mike Baxter came to the plate for his first Citi Field at-bat since he was helped off the field on the night of June 1, after the amazing sprawling catch that preserved Johan Santana’s no-hit bid. In […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Citi Field, Food, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Baxter “You should pull a Bobby O and unload on Niese. He lost that game because he is lazy, immature and uninterested in his craft.” In recognition of Tuesday night’s Mets License Plate Holder giveaway, clearly the highlight of the pancake-flat 4-2 loss with which the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Flat, Jon Niese, License Plate Holder Night, Terry Collins |
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