 
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. |
Simple explanation for Tuesday night’s loss in Los Angeles: Matt Harvey was retroactively switched with a human baby (not the Bucks’) and the human baby was incubated in a lab for more than 24 years before being smuggled into Mets uniform No. 33 and being hit hard by the Dodgers. Just like a human pitcher. We all […]  34 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Danny DeVito, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Matt Harvey, Nick Punto Considering the surfeit of extra-inning affairs the Mets have brought us in 2013, you might think something called the Citi Field Sleepover would seem superfluous. Yet the Mets scheduled one (as you may have picked up on from the handful of commercials they ran for it every five minutes), and a hardy band of Mets […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field Sleepover, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Ryder Chasin Get out your microscopes, because we’re going to examine a very small silver lining. For much of the spring, as horrific loss followed horrific loss, I advised you to do something else with your summer, even as I knew I wouldn’t take my own advice. I didn’t and I’m glad I didn’t, because the Mets are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Fairchild, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Umpiring Maybe this is actually the year of the overlooked Mets pitcher. Sure, Matt Harvey has been Olympian and each start makes Zack Wheeler looks more like the phenom he was heralded as. But the other day we were talking about Dillon Gee’s turnaround. Not so long ago Jenrry Mejia came off the prospect scrap heap to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Derek Jeter, Diamondbacks, Jonathon Niese, MLB, New York, Todd Zeile, Tuffy Gosewisch, Uniforms, Yankees I didn’t know much about Wilmer Flores before his promotion last week, primarily because I cultivate a state of plausible deniability where the Met minor leagues are concerned. I remain mostly blissfully ignorant about Met prospects because, quite frankly, I don’t want to know. With a handful of exceptions at the Harvey-Wheeler level, I figure […] The fan’s instinct is to choose the following: • Pursuing the extra base over playing it safe. • Letting the starter pitch as long as he can. • Extra innings in the event of a tie score in the bottom of the ninth on the road. • Staying awake postgame in order to watch AMC’s Breaking Bad Season Four […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Bad, Cody Ross, Cynicism, Heath Bell, Instincts, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Patrick Corbin, Paul Goldschmidt By now we’re used to Dillon Gee. We don’t think “My goodness, Dillon Gee is starting — I better clear my calendar.” We don’t barrage Twitter with our top-shelf material. We don’t rotate in a cheeky/blasphemous cover image for our Facebook page. It’s just Dillon Gee, after all. Maybe we’re a little too used to Dillon […] Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic. — Bull Durham The forecast was ominous: likely rain. Yeah right. The raindrops remained at a respectful distance, because they — like the rest of us — wanted to watch Matt […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Eric Young Jr., Hope, Manny Corpas, Matt Harvey, Wilmer Flores FLUSHING, N.Y. (FAFIF) — The Jaws of Defeat expressed bafflement after being certain it had secured the New York Mets within its formidable bite at Citi Field Tuesday night. “Huh?” the bewildered Jaws of Defeat asked. “Where did the Mets go? I was sure I had them.” The Mets indeed appeared all but ensconced inside the Jaws […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Blackmon, Cliches, Defense, Eric Young Jr., Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, LaTroy Hawkins, Manny Gonzalez, Rockies, Wilmer Flores, Yorvit Torrealba Jordany, we hardly knew ye. Actually, we knew ye surprisingly well for someone who played relatively little — though I guess for all the exhibitionist Instagrams and clubhouse clucking, we didn’t know everything relevant there was to know. Now we know for certain we won’t be seeing you in September at Citi Field…though we could’ve […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, Frankie Rodriguez, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Marlon Byrd, PEDs, Suspension |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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