Bruce Springsteen once advised you can’t start a fire without a spark. Monday night and Tuesday morning, there was no spark in Marlins Park. And for several days before, there was no yield at Citi Field. The Mets can’t get anything going in any sense anywhere. They are stuck in place…fourth place, to be precise, […]
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2013 Mets, Bruce Springsteen, Decay, Do Something, Extra Innings, Mad Men, Marlins, Matt Harvey, May, Terry Collins, Thin Patience Opening Day is, needless to say, the finest on the calendar. That’s true even if you’re a fan of a bad team, or one whose best-case scenario comes down to “can assemble some of the pieces required for a better future.” The second game of the season, though, might be even nicer than Opening Day. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Terry Collins Some positive developments for the Mets Saturday. Shaun Marcum got his throwing in, working his way up to 71 pitches. He only lasted four innings, but it’s not like anybody was counting. Then Terry Collins experimented a little and brought Robert Carson in for the fifth, which isn’t where you’d expect to see him, but […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin Cowgill, Extended Spring Training, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Baxter, Robert Carson, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Shaun Marcum Perhaps I’d forgotten how baseball seasons work since the last one concluded and the current one commenced, but I would have sworn through the first twenty games of 2013 that each and every one of the Mets’ first ten wins was brilliantly uplifting while each and every one of the Mets’ first ten losses was […] Some nice person to whom I had just been introduced in the Citi Field parking lot on Opening Day asked me, regarding the 81 games that were about to be played in the building adjacent to where we stood, “Do you have a plan?” “Yes,” I said, matter of factly. “My plan is to go to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1991 Mets, Barry Jones, Dave Magadan, Dennis Martinez, Dwight Gooden, Garry Templeton, Grand Slams, Jordany Valdespin, Kevin McReynolds, Priorities, Scott Ruskin Even great baseball teams lose an annoying number of games. The runaway-train teams — your ’86 Mets and ’98 Yankees and ’01 Mariners — are still going to lose 15 or 20 games that make you want to lie down in the road. Which means 45 to 60 hours of your time will be dedicated to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Jerry Hairston Jr., Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey Which of these seems less likely? Scenario 1: Middle reliever Rob Carson steps in with nobody on and two men out for his first plate appearance in the major leagues. Sixty and a half feet away stands the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, an assemblage of long limbs borrowed from a Hindu deity, stop-start motions filched […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Juan Lagares, Mark Ellis, Paco Rodriguez, Rob Carson As Mets fans, we hope our tentatively planned deluxe apartment in the National League East sky will be ready for occupancy in a couple of years. As New Yorkers who made it through Superstorm Sandy, we understand projecting living arrangements can become a precarious matter when nature intrudes in the rudest fashion possible. Almost six […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, John T. Brush Stairway, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Rebuilding NYC What a marvelously well-behaved afternoon the Mets provided those of us who filed into Citi Field on Sunday. Our Ron Darling bobbleheads awaited us in a pleasing stack; our fish tacos didn’t take any longer than the “few minutes” the notoriously pokey Catch of the Day promised; our shadow-situated seats were convincingly but not excessively […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Brandon Lyon, Bryce Harper, Dillon Gee, Fish Tacos, LaTroy Hawkins, Relief Pitching, Scott Rice A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bryce Harper, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin |
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