 
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. |
I’ll give the Mets this much: They do keep you interested. I started Sunday in the park with Emily and Joshua, securing visors and nice tickets in section 101, another one of those sections that didn’t exist at Shea and so are irresistible to me. The best thing about our seats? This time, they were in […]  28 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brodie Van Wagenen, Chris Archer, Edwin Diaz, Jason Vargas, Jung Ho Kang, Marcus Stroman, Media, Noah Syndergaard, Ownership, Pirates, Robinson Cano, Trade Rumors, Trades, Tyler Bashlor, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler Usually Brodie Van Wagenen throws the chair of unfettered frustration. Following the successful resolution of baseball activities Saturday night in Miami, we can close our eyes (or keep them wide open if we’re over on the West Side) and imagine instead Brodie threw the chair of temporary redemption. Throwing chairs still seems like unseemly behavior […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Edwin Diaz, Literal Power Outages, Midnight Cowboy, Paper Towel Commercials, Robinson Cano, That Trade Anticipation traditionally accompanies our team’s first game out of the All-Star break. We haven’t had a real game to watch in five days, so naturally we’re famished for Mets. On top of the yen for baseball was a hankering for an explanation by the highest-ranking official available to give us one. Brodie Van Wagenen, we […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Caleb Smith, Catchers Stealing, Dwight Gooden, Jason Vargas, John Stearns, Jorge Alfaro, Keith Hernandez, Pickoff Attempts, Second Half Hey Brodie, whatcha doin’? Awesome! Hey Brodie, why ya throwin’ a chair? Cool! Hey Mickey, whatcha doin’? Outta sight! Hey Todd, whatcha doin’? 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chairs, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Ejections, Jake Arrieta, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Mysterious Ways, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido So much sorrow at Citizens Bank Park Monday, implicit and otherwise. Mickey Callaway was sorry after he wasn’t. Jason Vargas was sorry there was a distraction to the very fine people on both sides. Brodie Van Wagenen was sorry if anybody was under the impression that he’s telecommuting to the dugout. The rest of the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apologies, Billy Martin, Brodie Van Wagenen, Collaboration, Gil Hodges, Jason Vargas, Media, Mickey Callaway, Moneyball, The Odd Couple As Monday’s game and possibly the season it is a part of were getting definitively away from the Mets, I found myself particularly irked not so much by their comprehensive, soup-to-nuts on-field shoddiness but the deficiencies in their off-field communications. It’s bad enough they don’t play a good game, they’re also not up to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brodie Van Wagenen, Karma, Language, Mickey Callaway, Quotes I put off writing the recap of Friday night’s Mets baseball — the completion of Thursday’s suspended game and Friday’s regularly scheduled contest with the Cardinals — in hopes that a night’s sleep would take the sting out of it. Oh ha ha ha ha ha. Nope, in the clear light of morning it hurts just as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Paul DeJong, Pitchers Hitting, Vexing Losses The Mets took the field Monday night having lost five in a row, three to the lowly Miami Marlins, and the portents were not good. Brodie Van Wagenen gave one of those sound-and-fury “full support for the manager” press conferences that make you even more convinced someone’s going to get fired; revealed the surprising, confounding […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Communications, Drew Gagnon, Mickey Callaway, Patrick Corbin, Robinson Cano, Wilmer Font As Wilmer Font unraveled around 8 p.m. and Mets Twitter started shooting off typography puns, I promised that by 11 p.m. I’d have figured out a Comic Sans joke. But here it is past 1 a.m. and the title of this post is the closest you’re going to get. Have at it in the comments […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Starting Pitching, Wilmer Font The Mets are an ordinary ballclub. They’re definitely not very good, they’re probably not very bad, even if five losses on a six-game road trip leaves you believing they couldn’t be much worse. They could be. They could also be better. It’s a long season. Teams that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Getaway Games, Hunter Renfroe, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Matt Strahm, Ordinary Baseball Team, Padres, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Tyler Bashlor, Wilmer Font |
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