 
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. |
Matt Harvey was not the only man in a Mets jersey to have the whole world in his back pocket Tuesday night. It could have been more perfect, I guess. There could have been a little less hole for Alex Rios’s seventh-inning two-out grounder to edge into. Ruben Tejada could have been overcome by […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Rios, Bobby Parnell, Citi Field, Harveysteria, Hector Santiago, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mike Baxter, One-Hitters, Perfect Game, Ruben Tejada, White Sox Baseball games, like most series of events we sort into stories, can usually be made to fit into a narrative arc when things are finished. We were close but it was obvious all night we weren’t going to get any breaks. Man, you knew those leadoff walks were going to bite us in the hinder […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Braves, Evan Gattis, Jason Isringhausen, Mike Minor, Shaun Marcum, Terry Collins Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfalfa, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Henry Chadwick, Jeff Kent, Joanie Sommers, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Lucas Duda, Magic 8 Ball, Marlins, Savoir-Faire, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Streaks, Wade LeBlanc What a marvelously well-behaved afternoon the Mets provided those of us who filed into Citi Field on Sunday. Our Ron Darling bobbleheads awaited us in a pleasing stack; our fish tacos didn’t take any longer than the “few minutes” the notoriously pokey Catch of the Day promised; our shadow-situated seats were convincingly but not excessively […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Brandon Lyon, Bryce Harper, Dillon Gee, Fish Tacos, LaTroy Hawkins, Relief Pitching, Scott Rice Please come to Denver Submitted for your approval…nah, scratch that. Who here would approve of anything the Mets did Tuesday night in the city that’s been their personal Twilight Zone for two decades? Not fans of the Mets. Certainly not fans of crisp, clean baseball. Perhaps fans of the Rockies, but honestly, those […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Gonzalez, Coors Field, David Nied, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young, Greg Burke, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Francis, Marlon Byrd, Michael Cuddyer, Rafael Betancourt, Rockies, Rod Serling, Ruben Tejada, Scott Atchison, Snow Adam Greenberg gets his second chance for a first impression tonight in Miami. The Marlins responded to his (and his filmmaker advocates’) “position wanted” campaign by saying, in essence, what the hell, it’s a great story, you’ve got a good cause, go put on a uniform, we’ll pinch-hit you in a game that doesn’t much […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Greenberg, Anderson Hernandez, Blaine Beatty, Bob Apodaca, Bobby Parnell, Butch Benton, Carlos Mendoza, Carlos Muniz, Charlie Greene, Charlie Puleo, Chris Jelic, Cleon Jones, David West, Dean Chance, Dillon Gee, Doc Medich, Don Rose, Duffy Dyer, Ed Kranepool, Fred Lewis, Glendon Rusch, Greg Goossen, Jeff Gardner, Jessie Hudson, Joe Hietpas, Joe Nolan, Joe Vitko, John Candelaria, John Christensen, John Mitchell, Jorge Velandia, Juan Castillo, Kenny Greer, Last-Picked Mets, Lee Mazzilli, Les Rohr, Mark Corey, Mike Fitzgerald, Mike Glavine, Nolan Ryan, Pat Strange, Phil Humber, R.A. Dickey, Randy Myers, Randy Sterling, Ray Burris, Robert Person, Ronn Reynolds, Roy Staiger, Scott Holman, September, Team History, Tobi Stoner, Todd Haney, Tom Parsons, Valentino Pascucci, Victory Faust This time I saw it coming — a brutal regression to the mean in the second half of what had been a heartening season. Funny thing is, it didn’t make any difference. Once again I went to kick the football of postseason hopes, and once again the Mets pulled it out of the way, and once again […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Fans, Jeremy Hefner, Mike Baxter, Ruben Tejada As it turned out, Matt Harvey didn’t need our prayers. He was superb, fanning a Seaveresque 11 over 5 1/3 innings, surrendering no runs and even hitting for half of the cycle. Then — and this was perhaps even more surprising — the bullpen didn’t blow it. Fireplug reliever Josh Edgin, a fellow 2010 first-round pick, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Hope, Josh Edgin, Matt Harvey, Rookies For a minute, let’s turn off the car in the closed garage, unknot the noose and descend the ladder, and drop the plugged-in hair dryer on the floor beside the tub instead of between our knees in the water. We’re going to try to gain some distance, and assess a certain recently concluded debacle from […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Bullpen, Debacles, Jason Bay, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, Scott Hairston, Tim Byrdak There’s an old joke about an inveterate optimist and a pile of horse manure, the punch line of which is, “There’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere.” And indeed, you’d think that after the last 18 innings of steaming, redolent folderol in Atlanta, the least the Mets would be able to pull out of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, C.B. Bucknor, Dale Scott, Fox, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, R.A. Dickey, Tim Byrdak, Turner Field |
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