Thirty-thousand of us were dying to be hypocrites Tuesday night. We wanted to pull one of those dazzling Asdrubal Cabrera spinoramas in our souls, execute a spectacular turn of sentiment and roar for the stranger at whom we’d been directing our derision loudly or slyly every time we saw him. Some of us preached and […]
 
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. |
 49 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adonis Garcia, Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Campbell, Impatience, Jay Bruce, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Patience, Pinch-Hitting, Travis d'Arnaud Sometimes your ace, while perfectly worthy of New Yorker covers, is missing that little wrinkle from his fastball and can’t locate it anyway and he gets whacked around. Sometimes an opponent who’s spent the year being an absolute tomato can manages to bewilder. Sometimes your hitters connect with ball after ball after ball in ways that seem promising […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Blair, Freddie Freeman, Matt Kemp, Noah Syndergaard Remember that weekend the Mets were vying for a Wild Card and the Minnesota Twins came into Citi Field with the worst record in baseball and you thought, “oh great, another one of those traps when the Mets inevitably play down to their competition,” and, sure enough, the Mets couldn’t score more than three runs […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All Hands On Deck, Erik Goeddel, Gabriel Ynoa, Jerry Blevins, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, T.J. Rivera, Twins I’ll accept the title of Fan Who Had Nothing to Do With the Outcome But Can Be Forgiven for Thinking He Did: a couple of seconds before the turning point of Saturday night’s marathon against the Twins, I looked up at the scoreboard and told my friend that “if this keeps up we’ll somehow be the […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Byron Buxton, Curtis Granderson, Ervin Santana, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Twins, Yoenis Cespedes My preparations for watching Friday night’s game included slippers and finding the fake fur throw that my wife was horrified when I bought — TV-watching components that made their last appearance one chilly day in May. It’s the baseball circle of life — a young season that needed spring thawing before we discovered what it […] What to do with a 1-0 loss? Throw stuff? Suck it up? Shrug? There are no wrong answers. It is the baseball epitome of close but no cigar. I’m not sure of the appeal of cigars, but one run sure sounded good on Wednesday. One Met run, that is. There was one National run, and it […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2008 Mets, Bob Sebra, Fernando Salas, Jay Bruce, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Mike Pelfrey, Robert Gsellman, Tanner Roark, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes I’ve invested so much of my life into loving baseball that it would have been a shame to have completely given up the game, but as Jerry Blevins prepared to face Daniel Murphy in the bottom of the tenth inning Tuesday night with two out, a runner on first and the Mets up by one, […] 58 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Games the Mets Didn't Lose, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Lou Brock, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Stan Musial, T.J. Rivera Terry Collins could have removed Rafael Montero at several junctures of his outing against the Washington Nationals Monday night, which speaks to what seems to be Terry’s managing philosophy: a preference to do nothing versus an inclination to do something. Montero wasn’t in the game very long by conventional measures (though it felt like hours). When […] 66 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gabriel Ynoa, Managing, Nothing, Rafael Montero, Something, Terry Collins The Mets won their 67th game ever at Turner Field on Sunday, or as reliable sources continue to insist, “They never won there; even if you present me with a list of occasionally stirring Met victories in that ballpark, I refuse to acknowledge it.” Mets fans who prefer misery as company (and there are a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Braves, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Peaches, Perceptions, Seth Lugo, Turner Field, Yoenis Cespedes That’s what I was thinking in the 10th inning, with the Mets trying everything in their bag of tricks to keep the Braves from winning the game and kicking them — let’s hope temporarily — out of the second wild-card spot. I’m not sure I’m emotionally tall enough to ride this attraction. In the early going, Saturday […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Braves, Ender Inciarte, Josh Smoker, T.J. Rivera, Turner Field, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes |
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