I’m glad the Mets seem to like each other as much as they do. Or do at the moment the lot of them accomplish something unforeseeable, which is score a fifth run in an eleventh inning. When Ruben Tejada lined a single through the drawn-in Phillies infield to plate the Young who isn’t Eric as […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anniversaries, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Phillies, Ruben Tejada, Tercer Cieloo It took only 46 seasons for me to wonder if choosing the New York Mets as the defining passion of my life represented the right call. It took perhaps the most excruciating loss I’ve witnessed to date at Citi Field to push me to question this aspect of my existence. Saturday night was just perfect in […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Bobbleheads, Chase Utley, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Kyle Farnsworth, Losing, Nolan Ryan, Phillies, Team History, Willie Mays We’ve entered the phase of the season — roughly March 31 to September 28, give or take stray illusory weeks devoted to the reflexive heightening of fleeting false hope — where we’re less concerned about winning baseball games than simply getting them over so another season of not winning baseball games can commence (but just […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Keith Hernandez, LOBs, Marlon Byrd, Phillies, Rumar Tejntanilla, Wilmer Flores Welcome to the 14th installment of our umpteen-part series, Better Know A Walkoff. Today: the 14th walkoff loss the Mets have suffered at the hands of the Florida/Miami Marlins since the founding of Faith and Fear in Flushing in 2005. The fightin’ 14th! Gosh, what can be said about this walkoff loss to the Marlins that wasn’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | History Repeats Itself, Marlins, Tom Koehler, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler Well hello! It’s me, your prodigal blogger, stepping in to keep Greg off the ledge. Seriously, I depart for two weeks of book tour and terrible things start happening to the Mets. Though, granted, what do you expect when the Mets head for Coors Field and the House of Loria, both famous for their soul-killing finales. […] Monday’s was the kind of Mets game Don Draper would have snuck out of sober so he could get back to the office and knock out those 25 Burger Chef tags for Peggy. It didn’t start out that way, which of course is the most generous clue that it was going to end that way. Maybe […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gonzalez Germen, Jon Niese, Loriatorium, Mad Men, Marlins, Marlins Park, Walkoffs For a pleasant change, Bichette didn’t happen to the Mets on Sunday. Unlike the first three games of their just-contested four-game in Denver, the Rockies didn’t crumble all over our starting pitcher. Our starting pitcher was Dillon Gee. While other Mets starters have seen their best days or are no doubt striding toward them, Dillon […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Mad Men, Pitchers Hitting, Rockies No matter which hitters constitute the heart of the Colorado Rockies order in a given series when the Mets play in Denver, the most daunting presence in the home team lineup remains Coors Field. The 20-year veteran may not intimidate in the fashion it did when it was a brash rookie, yet you can never […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, Bobby Abreu, Charlie Culberson, Coors Field, Dante Bichette, Jenrry Mejia, Joe Orsulak, Juan Lagares, Kyle Farnsworth, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Remlinger, Nolan Ariendo When I was a newly minted sophomore, I indulged my small extrovert streak and went out for a part in my high school’s Theatre Wing production of Heaven Can Wait. I read for the second lead of Mr. Jordan, but wound up with the far smaller role of Inspector Williams. I wasn’t much of a […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Ed Charles, Juan Lagares, Mets Marketing, True New Yorkers, Weirdness Well, here’s another 2014 first: the first game that made you want to discover the ability to reach into your TV and smack Mets several time zones away. This was the game I’d feared the Mets would play on Tuesday in Philadelphia, and was pleasantly surprised to be wrong about: a dead-eyed, slumbering, miscue-filled mess. Every […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Juan Lagares, Rockies, Travis d'Arnaud |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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