 
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. |
…well, you know the rest of the line. On Wednesday night I walked down the stairs through the rotunda, but before proceeding out of the gates with their NYs, I looked briefly behind me. I had two reasons for doing so. 1) I wanted to see what oversized faux-Topps baseball card they’d created for Matt Harvey. It looked […] Goodness is it ever exhausting being a Mets fan sometimes. On Thursday night, when the Phillies had finished administering a 16-1 pasting of the Mets, Terry Collins accused his team of quitting — or rather, he let his refusal to say they hadn’t quit indicate rather clearly that he thought they had. On Friday afternoon, horribly but […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Lucas Duda, Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, Terry Collins In five years’ time, we’ve gone from being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher who gallingly showed no emotion when his historically miserable first inning sealed our doom, to being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher whose emotional brittleness over his historically miserable first inning was uncomfortably apparent. Either way, the Mets were dead then and […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Embarrassment, Jeremy Hefner, Mathematically Eliminated, T#m Gl@v!ne, Terry Collins It’s good to know, in some perverse way, that with only two weeks remaining in the flat-out, most embarrassing second half the Mets have ever matriculated down the field, a given Mets loss can still rankle me enough to make me kick a plastic beer cup until it makes a thwack almost as loud as […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1989 Mets, Barry Lyons, David Wright, Don Aase, Ed Kranepool, Josh Edgin, Kelly Downs, Matt Harvey, Ryan Howard, Willie Randolph As Charlie Rich taught me when I was just a lad listening to WGBB, people like to talk, lord, don’t they love to talk. When they can’t talk, they whisper. Sometimes the whispering works as such: • First somebody whispers to somebody about this guy. • Then somebody disseminates the whispers about the guy. • Then everybody rushes […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Whisper Campaigns The Mets did the right thing, calling tonight’s game in advance of the forecast deluge. And a Mets game postponed (to Thursday night) in this September is tantamount to a good deed. Yet I find myself sad that the miserable Mets won’t be playing another miserable game that they were probably going to lose and will […] Joshua was very excited about his first-ever night game, crafting a highly detailed case for why he ought to be able to have ice cream very late in the proceedings. I’d been harangued long enough to stop listening very attentively by then, but I believe the gist of it was ice cream in the eighth […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, PItching, R.A. Dickey, Statistics Twelve different pitchers have started games for the New York Mets this season. Chris Young has been neither the best nor the worst of the lot, nor, within a universe that briefly included Chris Schwinden, the most obscure among them. But he is he one I keep forgetting. I’ve all but forgotten Chris Young is in the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aramis Ramirez, Chris Young, Ryan Braun, Serviceable, Starting Pitching Apologies to anyone who wanted a late-night recitation of Metly things — your correspondent fell asleep somewhere between the conclusion of the game and the beginning of the chronicling. Honestly, it was the proper reaction to the one of the longer, more pedestrian, less elegant baseball games you’ll see: terrible pitching, bad baserunning, lousy fielding. Particularly […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda So this simultaneously struck a chord and was no fun at all. What might improve things? 1) Make a date to see Knuckleball! It’s a terrific movie — a smart, sweet baseball valentine, and a wonderful character study of our own R.A. Dickey, Tim Wakefield and their forerunners as knuckleballers — Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough, Wilbur […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Howard Megdal, Jonathon Niese, R.A. Dickey |
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