 
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. |
In the summer of 1977, with Tom Seaver exiled to Cincinnati, the Mets tried to lure fans back to Shea Stadium with the cheery come-on “bring your kids to see our kids.” It didn’t work — nothing short of M. Donald Grant’s public execution would have worked under the circumstances — but this month I keep […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Flexen, Dominic Smith, Hope, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Youth Losing with the kids is OK, at least as I see it — tonight Amed Rosario hit a home run (awesome) and nearly got thrown out to end the game stretching a double into a triple (yikes don’t do that). And Kevin McGowan escaped ghost status, keeping the roster of Mets ghostsat nine. On the other […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, David Wright, Kevin McGowan, Tommy Milone The Mets lost, and it was annoying — after a drought in the clutch, they came back to tie the game against the Diamondbacks and their dreadful uniforms, forcing the business of determining a winner to extra innings. Then Erik Goeddel came on as the latest reliever, and it was immediately clear that he didn’t have […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pollock, Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Erik Goeddel, Robert Gsellman, Steven Matz “You have to respect a ballplayer who’s just tryin’ to finish the season,” Annie Savoy told us after she learned Crash Davis left her at dawn for an opening at Asheville in the South Atlantic League. Crash had a goal: minor league home run No. 247, the record for such things in the world of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bull Durham, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Pitcher Wins At this stage of a lost season, it’s no longer about the standings or even particularly about the score. Baseball becomes a game of individual accomplishments, and the roster a collection of atomized pieces to be assessed for some future mosaic. Keep this one, dump that one, maybe we can swap that one for something […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Ballparks, Dominic Smith, New Yankee Stadium Steven Matz looked all right for a change for four innings Saturday night; looked a little too much like Jonathon Niese in the fifth inning; and never made it out of the sixth. Unlike Niese, the Mets’ latest vexingly underperforming lefty stalwart didn’t blame anybody but himself for his shortfall. He never does. Yoenis Cespedes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes One of the things I’ve enjoyed about this Mets era — 2015, 2016, 2017 — is the sense that even when these guys aren’t quite playing good ball, they know how to be good ballplayers, particularly good teammates. That probably comes from a proliferation of decent fellas playing the game for a decent interval. Live […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Hansel Robles, Joe Orsulak, Met Debuts, Veteran Presence No matter how many ballgames you go to, it is often mentioned, you’ll see something you haven’t seen before. Sure enough, I experienced a plethora of firsts on Tuesday night, which was by no means my first ballgame. Let’s see what I saw that I hadn’t seen previously… • The pat-you-down security guy hassling me about my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Beltre, AJ Ramos, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Chris Flexen, LIRR, Mama's of Corona, Neil Walker, Rangers, Ryan Church, Ryder Chasin The Mets returned home from Colorado to face the unfathomable juggernaut that is the 2017 Dodgers, and looked listless as they slogged through a deeply boring game in which they were little more than anonymous cannon fodder to be dispatched. Jacob deGrom was the closest thing the team had to an offensive highlight, collecting one […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chase Utley, Jacob deGrom, Retired Numbers, T-shirts, Yu Darvish It’s an inadvertent law of roster construction that every team have one reliever whose niche — the one assigned to him by the baseball deities, as opposed to envisioned for him by management — is to be the guy in the aluminum suit who stands on the roof during lightning storms. You know him. He’s Rich […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bad Relief Pitching, Charlie Blackmon, Hansel Robles, Nolan Arenado, Rafael Montero, Yoenis Cespedes |
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