Justice Potter Stewart, who slipped his colleague Harry Blackmun the 1973 equivalent of a Breaking News text alert while the United States Supreme Court and National League Championship Series were simultaneously in session — “V.P. Agnew just resigned!! Mets 2 Reds 0” — is probably best remembered for his concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio, […]
 
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. |
 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, Baseball Porn, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Potter Stewart, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud Matt Harvey wasn’t supposed to pitch Friday night, but went seven. Zack Wheeler is rarely supposed to hit, but he doubled as a pinch-hitter for Harvey. Robert Gsellman neither hit nor pitch, yet he was bunted to second and took third on a groundout. Michael Conforto, despite presumed holes in his game, hit a home […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Curtis Granderson, Injuries, Jeurys Familia, Jose Lobaton, Josh Smoker, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Oliver Perez, Robert Gsellman, Zack Wheeler I particularly liked the part where Bryce Harper struck out. That I have to be more specific than that I also particularly like. I’m referring to the top of the fourth, one out, nobody on, the Mets ahead of the Nationals, 2-0. Noah Syndergaard is one-two on the consensus best player in the National League and…frozen. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard You have to love a team whose prospective greatest-hitting homegrown player ever has just tied an offensive record set by somebody from its toddler stages. What am I saying? You already do. Toward the end of a week defined by a streak, if not streakiness, we learned that when Michael Conforto doubled in the second inning at […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bryce Harper, Gnomes, Hockey, Jacob deGrom, Joe Christopher, McFadden's, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Noah Syndergaard, Potential, Rene Rivera, Team History Maybe all the Mets needed was a little sunshine. The sun makes living things grow. The Mets appeared to be the opposite of a living thing since departing Cincinnati with a division title stuffed in their luggage. Perhaps they were under the impression they had entered the afterlife. Not quite. They had only qualified for it. […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bryce Harper, Closing Day, Jeurys Familia, Karma, Meaningful Gestures What can I tell you that you don’t already know? You know the Mets are the champions of the National League Eastern Division. They won that title Saturday and they maintained that title Sunday and as regards 2015, it is theirs forever. Even the NCAA can’t take it away. Every time I start to think about […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, Banner Day, Bryce Harper, Choo Choo Coleman, Day After Lineup, Jonathan Papelbon, Leon Janney, Lucas Duda, Polo Grounds, Rheingold, Rookie Hazing For consistency’s sake, we shall continue to refer to the state of affairs in which we’ve been thoroughly immersed as a pennant race, even if ours is the only team any longer racing. Mathematical niceties demand we maintain on our faces an expression of severe purposefulness when the subjects of games ahead and games remaining arise. […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Black Cat, Bryce Harper, Clint Robinson, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Matt Williams, Michael Conforto, Pennant Race, Ron Swoboda, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes My pal Will likes to strip away the sepia Valhalla folderol around baseball and replace it with a simple rule: “When my team wins, I am happy, and when they lose, I am sad.” Pretty much. But there are degrees of happy and sad. There’s the sad of losing a ho-hum game in August when you’re a dozen games […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Comebacks, Drew Storen, Joy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Matt Williams, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes There have been more exhausting 48-hour stretches in the life of a Mets fan — the desperate scramble at the end of the ’99 season comes to mind — but not for a very long time. And perhaps there’s never been such an insane rollercoaster of emotions over so few hours, with euphoria, anger, confusion, despair, and […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Fans, Felipe Rivero, Hope, Jerry Meals, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Tyler Clippard, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes More than a few media outlets have let it be known they don’t plan to refer to Washington’s football team as “the Redskins” this fall. And in an unrelated development, it’s highly unlikely that the name “the Washington Nationals” will be mentioned in many baseball stories come October. Let us enjoy this brief period of tangible […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Davey Johnson, Ike Davis, Josh Satin, Juan Lagares, Natonals, Spoiler |
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