 
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. |
One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler OK, so … Hmm. Umm. Seriously, how the hell do you start? Wednesday night’s game was weird before it began, but we had No Idea. Even before Will Venable headed for the plate to start the top of the first, Twitter was buzzing with rumors: The Mets were close to a deal, and it was for a bat — a […] 101 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fans, Reporters, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trades, Weirdness, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler They didn’t much hype The First Home Start In The New York Mets Career Of Noah Syndergaard, did they? Just as well. When they hype that sort of thing, it seems to implode. They hyped Matt Harvey’s Citi Field debut in 2012 and it was one of the worst outings he’s ever thrown. They hyped […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Darin, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Myths, New York, Noah Syndergaard Y’know that saying about how you have to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games? Well, if I can take the liberty of substituting that supposition with “supporter,” I think I’ve proven myself one of the better Mets fans of 2013. I am Jerry Koosman, 1977. 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20 Losses, Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, Jack Fisher, Jerry Koosman, Oktoberfest, Roger Craig, Tracy Stallard I’m sure there have been worse showcases for baseball. I’m sure I’ve even seen a few of them. But it’s hard to think of any at the moment. My God, that was a horrible, horrible, horrible baseball game inflicted on blameless fans and viewers by the Mets and the Brewers. I gave up trying to keep […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Carlos Gomez, Dallas Green, Horribleness, Ike Davis, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Zack Wheeler Over the years I’ve had the honor — and the anxiety — of introducing a few people to their first baseball game. While I’m sincere in my belief that baseball is the highest art form yet to spring from the human mind, not all baseball games are created equal. For someone’s first three hours of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Carlos Gomez, Chris Capuano, Jose Reyes I wish I could remember the young man’s name. I remember his age, 15. I met him last summer on an Amazin’ Tuesday at Two Boots. Big Mets fan, big fan of the blog, he said. Within a few minutes of introducing himself, he was excitedly explaining to me why the Mets would be in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Laxton, Billy Baldwin, Carlos Gomez, Craig Swan, Dwight Gooden, Fernando Martinez, Fernando Nieve, Ike Davis, Jeff Bittiger, Jenrry Mejia, Joe Smith, Jon Heyman, Jon Niese, Lastings Milledge, Mickey Lolich, Mike Jacobs, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Vail, Neil Allen, Nelson Figueroa, Prospects, RIck Ownbey, Roy Staiger, Ruben Tejada, Scott Holman, Sergio Ferrer, Team History, Tim Leary Back in 2007, the Mets brought up a young man named Carlos Gomez. Gomez could burn — he and Jose Reyes used to race each other out to their positions, which I thought was adorable. He was just 21, but pretty big — the kind of guy you see as a doubles and triples hitter […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Hope, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Prospects, Shawn Green The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we’d have nothing more to sate our […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Eddie Kunz, Fernando Martinez, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, Jeff Kent, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Gonder, Jon Matlack, Jon Niese, Ken Boswell, Lastings Milledge, Mike Pelfrey, Mookie Wilson, Omir Santos, Philip Humber, Prospects, Roger McDowell, Ron Swoboda, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Topps All-Rookie Team, Ty Wigginton |
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