One of the benefits of going to a baseball game rather than watching it on television is there’s no seven-second delay. Everything that happens happens and, as the spirit of Walter Cronkite might suggest, you are there. But Tuesday night at Citi Field, which is where I […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Backpacks, Citi Field, Citi Pavilion, Friday Night Lights, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Manufacturers Hanover, Not Backpacks, Pete Alonso, Pocket Schedules, Walter Cronkite, Zack Wheeler The Mets took the field Monday night having lost five in a row, three to the lowly Miami Marlins, and the portents were not good. Brodie Van Wagenen gave one of those sound-and-fury “full support for the manager” press conferences that make you even more convinced someone’s going to get fired; revealed the surprising, confounding […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Communications, Drew Gagnon, Mickey Callaway, Patrick Corbin, Robinson Cano, Wilmer Font You know the story of Scheherazade, right? The Persian Empire’s ruler, angry to discover his wife had been unfaithful, decided to safeguard what he regarded as his royal prerogative by taking a virgin bride each night, beheading her in the morning, and replacing her with a new spouse. One imagine he would have run out […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Managers, Mickey Callaway What you want as a fan is for your team to be its best self always. Of course you do. Win. Win 162 times and then eleven more times and then shower us in confetti. Be so best en route to the Canyon of Heroes that our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Best Selves, Carlos Gomez, Fun, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Marlins, Mickey Callaway, Not Fun, One-Hitters, Pablo Lopez, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano's nonsense, Steven Matz For the life of me I can’t figure this Mets team out. They’re built in a slapdash manner, with wildly optimistic Plan As and aw-shucks shrugs for Plan Bs. They can’t field. The hitting, relief and even the vaunted starting pitching are all inconsistent, lighting up and then going dark and making you want to bang […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Jacob deGrom, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Pete Alonso Hello, sir or madam, I am calling today from Metropolitan Research Inquiries, or MRI. Your name has been chosen at random from a database of fans of your baseball team to determine which ways you’d prefer your team to lose. Results will go into helping create potential […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Frustration, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Losing, Market Research, Michael Conforto, Zack Wheeler As Wilmer Font unraveled around 8 p.m. and Mets Twitter started shooting off typography puns, I promised that by 11 p.m. I’d have figured out a Comic Sans joke. But here it is past 1 a.m. and the title of this post is the closest you’re going to get. Have at it in the comments […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Starting Pitching, Wilmer Font They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos The Mets beat the Marlins Saturday night, and while they didn’t score eight in the first — or eight at all — it was a pretty convincing victory. The headline was that Jacob deGrom looked like his old self once again: On Saturday he carved the Marlins up for the first three innings with a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Alonso, Sandy Alcantara Friday night’s game was an Earl Weaver special — the Mets scored eight times in the first, then slowly pulled away. It was one of those games you think you’d want every night, because who doesn’t like a laugher that reveals itself as such within the first half an hour? In reality, though, you wouldn’t. […] |
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