A day game right after a bad loss is often a good thing — right back at em, rinse that bad taste out of our mouths, and what-not. The Mets will put that baseball truism to the test in a couple of hours, and most likely give us a reason to doubt it the way […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chase Utley, Mickey Callaway, Ozzie Albies, Paul Sewald, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Tom Hallion, Umpires, Zack Wheeler The Mets returned home from Colorado to face the unfathomable juggernaut that is the 2017 Dodgers, and looked listless as they slogged through a deeply boring game in which they were little more than anonymous cannon fodder to be dispatched. Jacob deGrom was the closest thing the team had to an offensive highlight, collecting one […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chase Utley, Jacob deGrom, Retired Numbers, T-shirts, Yu Darvish It’s an ancient baseball conundrum. No, not “are sacrifice bunts mostly dumb or mostly super-dumb?” And not “is something wrong if you’re giving that many ABs to Eric Campbell?” I mean something even tougher to contemplate and more scarring to one’s inner fan: “would you rather lose meekly, or come back and then lose hideously?” It was […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Utley, Clayton Kershaw, Curtis Granderson, Jeurys Familia Adam Hamari, a relative stranger to our ongoing narrative since his arrival as a major league umpire in 2013, is now seared into our consciousness as a) the arbiter who arbitrarily deprived 42,000 ticketholders of the opportunity to watch and cheer Noah Syndergaard, premier starting pitcher for the New York Mets, and b) enabler of […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Adam Hamari, Angel Hernandez, Chase Utley, Davey Johnson, Gary Carter, Jesse Orosco, Memory, Noah Syndergaard, Old Timers Day, Travesty I gotta say, I am loving the 1986 vibe around our first-place Mets. True, it’s mostly a function of homecoming weekend (a concept I dared only dream of when Citi Field was no more than a branding exercise), but this wouldn’t work nearly as well without the Mets being in first place. And did I mention […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bob Murphy, Chase Utley, Chase Utley Sucks, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Gary Thorne, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Julio Urias, Lenny Dykstra, Old Timers Day, Racing Stripes, Radio, Team History, WHN, WOR “I’ll probably only make it for one more batter,” the sleepy fan said to himself as Hansel Robles battled Trayce Thompson with two out in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets and Dodgers tied at two. “I don’t think I’ll make it to extra innings.” Funny how sometimes things just take care of themselves. The […] I guess it’s just something about San Diego. Tonight’s Mets game wasn’t that much less stressful than Sunday’s — in fact, it followed the same approximate blueprint — but whereas yesterday I was finger-crossing and pleading while urging Antonio Bastardo on from a continent away, tonight I was sprawled on my couch, occasionally losing track of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Chase Utley, Dodgers, Jim Henderson, Steven Matz, West Coast Trips “Hello? Anyone still up?” “I’m not hungry. They’ve got great food at work. I’m still wired, though. I just had to drop by and tell somebody […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Coming of Age Moments, Gil Flores, Matt Harvey, Pete Rose, Ruben Tejada, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Yoenis Cespedes Good news for all you kids out there. You can now play baseball any way you like. The rules don’t apply. Just slam into middle infielders at will. You don’t even need to be on your way to second base. You do this, and you and your team shall be rewarded handsomely. That’s my takeaway after […] 76 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Marlon Anderson, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Travesty, Umpires, Zack Greinke When you’re sending your ace of aces out to face the dregs of the dregs, you can’t help but have high hopes…high in the sky apple pie hopes. In this corner, we had the undefeated Matt Harvey, author of the best day (sometimes two days) of every week. In the other corner, there sat the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2002 Mets, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dillon Gee, Freddie Galvis, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jonathan Papelbon, Matt Harvey, Mets Fan Instinct, Monty Python, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Ryan Howard |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
|
Copyright © 2024 Faith and Fear in Flushing - All Rights Reserved |
||