I’ve never understood the concept behind the phrase, “…and in twenty years, a hundred-thousand people are going to claim they were at this game.” Why, I’ve wondered, would anyone say he personally eyewitnessed an event he didn’t see for himself? What’s the payoff in that? Perhaps the status of proximity to history carried more cachet […]
 
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. |
 27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1997 Mets, Bobby Higginson, Dave Kingman, Jennry Mejia, Jerry Seinfeld, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Recidivist Mets, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Todd Hundley Before Saturday’s game, I noticed a new billboard plastered along the avenue of commerce that serves as Citi Field’s outfield fence. It touted EAST COAST POWER & GAS. Clearly it referred to the home team’s starting pitcher. Good to see the Mets making some very bold statements. Offspeed blends notwithstanding, we know Matt Harvey can bring the […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | East Coast Power & Gas, Harvey Day, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Video Review The pitching’s too good to ever get too down. There’s not a Shaun Marcum reclamation project in the bunch, no Chris Capuano dutifully sucking up innings as if that’s the goal of any given game. One start you get Jacob deGrom, who opposing batters can’t hit; next game it’s Noah Syndergaard, who they can’t touch. In […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Friday Night Lights, Hope, Injuries, Mad Men, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz The Mets, for all the agita surrounding them, went to the other side of a fair continent and returned with a 4-2 trip. That’s not bad. In fact, it’s pretty far from bad. So why are so many Mets fans — most definitely including me — so prone to rending of garments, gnashing of teeth and […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Michael Cuddyer, Wilpons After two taut wins in LA and San Francisco, it was back to the old boring formula familiar from too many Met losses. And maybe it’s just the late-night abyss that follows a West Coast loss, but your chronicler is left scratching his bald head about what to say. I mean, yeah, Bartolo Colon didn’t help […] In another century, you could easily discern the difference between frontline and rear-echelon Mets. The starters were the starters and the bench guys were held in reserve until needed. When one of the bench guys got in the lineup, it usually meant a regular was aching or slumping or simply needed a blow. It was […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Bambi's Bandits, Bob Bailor, Bruce Bochy, Chris Heston, Joel Youngblood, Johnny Monell, Jon Niese, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Michael Cuddyer, Mike Jorgensen, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Sergio Romo If you’re a fan of a bad football team, it’s possible that you’ll spend an entire season of Sundays without a win — an entire season without a single day of smiling or feeling a spring in your step. Happily, that can’t happen in baseball. Even if your team is awful, you’re guaranteed 50 or so […] The 2015 Mets have settled on an interesting formula for trying to win ballgames: 1) Ask your young starting pitcher to be perfect. It worked last night, as Noah Syndergaard pitched one of the best games of his downy career. But it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores When you can’t hit water even after you fall out of a dinghy, then does it really matter who’s rowing ashore to presumably shut you down? Sure, Clayton Kershaw has been all-world for a half-decade and the Mets traditionally maintain a safe enough distance from the Cy Young and MVP award winner so as to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2004 Mets, Clayton Kershaw, Howie Rose, James Baldwin, Noah Syndergaard “I’m tellin’ ya, I seen it.” “I do no such thing. As God is my witness, I seen it.” “It happened.” “I speak only the truth.” “Doubt me all ya want, but these two eyes seen it.” |
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