 
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. |
Rain in the area, Gio Gonzalez and Bartolo Colon on the mound. One team scored seven. The other team scored one. You remember, right? It was five days ago, just the other side of the Brewers Interregnum. Gio was masterful, except for a cannon shot lined into the stands by Yoenis Cespedes. Bartolo was not masterful. He […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Rendon, Bartolo Colon, Fans, Gio Gonzalez, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman There are moments when you sense things can’t get any better for your team. Those are moments that are both gratifying and terrifying. Peak Mets, to dabble in the fashionable vernacular, may have been achieved early this past week. Bartolo Colon had homered on Saturday, his accomplishment stayed the toast of the town well into Monday. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Charlie Blackmon, Coors Field, Jerry Blevins, Jon Gray, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Network, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition “It has happened! In their fifty-first season, Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!” “And what’s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you’ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bill Veeck, Bobby Thomson, Breaking Bad, Car Wash, Darryl Strawberry, Designated Hitter, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Impossible, Jack Lang, James Shields, Joe Garagiola, Johan Santana, Julio Franco, Ken Davidoff, Kentucky Derby, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Memory, Nyquist, Pitchers Hitting, Ramon Castro, Red Smith, Team History, The Power to Evoke, The Shawshank Redemption, The Total Uselessness of the Designated Hitter, Vin Scully, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra There has to be a Met fan out there who got stuck with an uncooperative schedule and plopped down on the couch or in the stands after the first inning. Sorry pal — you missed a lot. You missed David Wright walloping a pitch over the Great Wall of Flushing, followed two batters later by Yoenis Cespedes unloading, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, David Wright, Lucas Duda, PItching, Yoenis Cespedes 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 One of my favorite parts of a new baby season is how for a little while you can remember every game. We lost that horror show in KC, then played well and won a squeaker, walloped the Phils, then lost that taut little one the next night. See? Easy. Depending on your attentiveness and memory, you’ll be able […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Cesar Hernandez, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Vince Velasquez What used to be trivia is now widely disseminated fact, so there’ll be no wowing you with the historical nugget that the Mets have never won the first game of a World Series. Don Buford, Ken Holtzman, Bruce Hurst, Jose Vizcaino and Alex Gordon — among others — have seen to that. And if the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Alcides Escobar, Alex Gordon, Bartolo Colon, Believe, Car Trouble, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Don Buford, Eric Hosmer, Fathers and Sons, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer Bartolo Colon presumably sets eight or nine major league records every time he steps on a major league field, so it’s understandable if this one escaped the bookkeepers’ notice. To be fair, it’s probably not a record, but I’m gonna say it is. By defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-2, on a rain-delayed Thursday night/Friday morning at […] For one night, not even the biggest Terry Collins hater could quibble with his bullpen management. Has Bartolo Colon ever been better in a Met uniform? He simply throttled the Marlins in recording the Mets’ first complete game of the year, even contributing a highlight-of-forever play by flipping a ball behind his back to Eric Campbell, […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Boras There has to be some Mets fan out there who was called away during the bottom of the fifth and then had something to do in the top of the ninth. If so, sorry man — because the rest of Monday night’s game was about as snoozy as it gets. There’s something to be said for a lack […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jeff Francoeur, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto |
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