 
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. |
Technically, Sunday afternoon’s Mets win over the Nationals was the day half of a day-night doubleheader, but you’d be excused for confusion in that the day game itself proceeded like day and night from a Met perspective. Maybe that was appropriate at the end of a week that commenced with a solar eclipse. DAY BREAKS: Asdrubal […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alejandro De Aza, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Daniel Murphy, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheaders, Edwin Jackson, Gary Cohen, Great Calls, Hansel Robles, Juan Lagares, Relief Pitching, Strike Zones, Tommy Milone, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Wilmer Flores Addison Reed looked tired. Travis d’Arnaud looked lost. Asdrubal Cabrera looked determined. Jeurys Familia at first looked vulnerable, then unbeatable. Eric Campbell looked happy to be there. Josh Smoker looked ecstatic to be there. It’s not enough for me to watch the players on my team play ball. I now find myself thinking along with them, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Curtis Granderson, Eric Campbell, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Pennant Race, September, Team Effort, Travis d'Arnaud Shortly after the Mets wrapped up their third straight win over the Marlins Wednesday night, I had an odd vision: Alejandro De Aza hits the home run that proves to be the difference in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. He’s mobbed by 24 Mets, all of them emergency call-ups from the minors. Shortly […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Delusion, Hope, Injuries, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Wilmer Flores The Mets, who couldn’t have been deader last week, are alive if not 100% well. When you’ve won exactly one more game than you’ve lost, yet retain aspirations of winning twelve in October/November, you can’t have everything. Though you need to come close. Thursday night was the must-iest win of the year, superseding Tuesday night by dint of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Contenders, Cramps, Seth Lugo, Wild Card For at least one day the Mets, those egregious laughingstocks, were anything but: they stomped on the Giants to break their losing streak in convincing fashion. 9-5? That’s definitely a way to make a living. Yoenis Cespedes led the charge, smacking two home runs and just missing a third, a just-missed that may or may not have led […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Billy Cotton, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, Josh Smoker, Terrel Hansen, The Holy Books, Yoenis Cespedes With one swing, Jay Bruce saved and screwed us all Thursday night. The National League RBI leader — with three crucial Met runs batted in on top of eighty from Cincinnati that do us no good whatsoever — blasted a three-run homer over Yankee Stadium’s center field fence to ensure Bartolo Colon’s vintage pitching performance […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Hope, Jay Bruce, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Rudy, Styx, Subway Series For nine innings Saturday night, you might have believed you were watching the Mets perform in historically frustrating fashion, better known as just another game from the past eight weeks. On April 30, the Mets had risen to eight games above .500, Michael Conforto was soaring atop an OPS of 1.118 and the only change […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1985 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Dario Alvarez, Darryl Strawberry, Extra Innings, Frank Lary, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, Jim Maloney, John Tudor, Johnny Lewis, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Ken Dayley, Larry Bearnarth, Moment of Silence, Parks & Recreation, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Team History The Mets have played 38.3% of their allotted baseball games for 2016, which in and of itself is no magic number, but if you do the math and calculate that 38.3% of a pie has been consumed, you understand 61.7% of it remains. If you express 61.7% as a decimal figure, the kind you’d see […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Akeel Morris, Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bill Terry, Chico Fernandez, Dick Scott, Erik Goeddel, George Davis, Hope, James Loney, Kelly Johnson, Mets Third Basemen, Milestones, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Office Space, One Met Homer Only, Polo Grounds, Recidivist Mets, Team History, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores, Zach Davies “What a miserable series.” 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Coors Field, Crooked Umps, Jacob deGrom, Jim Henderson, Juan Lagares, Things That Never Happened The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes |
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