“All right, I’m glad you both came. I’m glad you’ve both committed to the process. The sign of a healthy relationship is when the people in the relationship acknowledge that its health is not a given and that you have to work consistently at improving it. Emmett, I’m picking up from your body language a […]
 
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. |
 22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Apologies, April in August, Doubleheader Sweeps, Dysfunctional Relationships, Emotional Codependency, Francisco Lindor, Gestures, Javy Baez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Suspended Games They weren’t kidding when they said Jerry Koosman was clutch. Beat the mighty Orioles twice to tie and win the World Series? Yeah, that was swell, but look at what he’s accomplished lately. • Jerry Koosman shows up at Citi Field to have his number retired, and the 2021 Mets shake out of their characteristic doldrums […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1976 Mets, 20 Wins, Family, Jerry Koosman, Retired Numbers My old pal Dan almost apologized upon offering me use of his tickets for Thursday night. If I couldn’t make it, he said not to worry. “There are still other games to endure.” This is how Mets fans talk to one another in Augusts like these. There’ve been a few. There was one 41 Augusts ago, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, August, Carlos Carrasco, Endurance, Javy Baez, Mark Bomback, One-Run Defeats, Pete Alonso, Schvitzing, Video Review A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill Perhaps you’ve read of the unique public perception of Howard Cosell at the peak of his fame. He was simultaneously the most popular sports broadcaster of his time and the most unpopular. People loved him. People hated him. People listened when he spoke. I thought of Mets PA announcer Colin Cosell’s grandfather as I watched Javy […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Braves, Francisco Lindor, Howard Cosell, J.D. Davis, Javy Baez, Marcus Stroman, Whether to Pinch-Hit Pulling into our parking lot from running pre-hurricane errands, around 2 o’clock, I remembered the Mets would be playing at four. “Damn,” I thought. By 4 o’clock, I was nonetheless excited when the game came on. It’s Pavlovian. Or Pavlickian, perhaps. Hurricane prep is underway. By 7 o’clock, with Brandon Nimmo having garnered three hits of three […] If there’s any solace to be taken from the 2021 Mets’ current status of 60-62 after 122 games — the 122nd of them a 3-2 loss to Walker Buehler and the dark blue Dodgers — beyond every game completed bringing us closer to the 2021 Mets no longer having a current status, it’s that good […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, FAFIF at .500, Final Forty, Finishing Kicks, Potentially Inspirational Precedent, Team History For eight innings, the highlight of the Mets’ Wednesday matinee in San Francisco was that I got to watch it as it began. That may sound like a lowlight from the perspective of the Mets’ five previous games/losses, but understand where I was coming from or at least where I was. I had taken my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Chance Sisco, Eye Doctor’s Waiting Room Televisions, Jake Reed, Midweek Matinees, Patrick Mazeika, The Office “A long flight across the night? You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. Ask the important question. Talk about the idea nobody has thought about yet. Put it in a different way.” That was Jed Bartlet aboard Air Force One, somewhere over America, sometime late at […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | (Not) Phone Company Park, 2002 Mets, Falls From Grace, Field Of Dreams, Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, The West Wing Trying to fall asleep between the Dodgers’ dispiriting sweep at Citi Field and the results to come from the impending West Coast trip, I thought about what the Mets need to do in the ensuing seven games. I rarely project beyond “gotta go 1-0 tonight,” but since the season is likely at an inflection point, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Fandom, The Impossible Dream, West Coast Trips |
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