 
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. |
Hmm. Who do we blame for that slow-motion train wreck, a one-run loss that felt like the home team was down five? Jacob deGrom? That would be both cruel and inaccurate. DeGrom’s started all of two games in the big leagues and pitched well enough to win each time. He threw too many balls and got […]  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Young, Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Wilmer Flores GAME NOTES: The Mets scored nine runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … The Mets belted four home runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … Curtis Granderson, Eric Young and Travis d’Arnaud all took advantage of Yankee Stadium’s extremely generous right field dimensions, each hitting a short-porch […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric Young Jr., Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mets Win, Rafael Montero, Saul Katz, Subway Series, The 7 Line, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees Lose I missed being in the house for Weather Education Day Thursday afternoon, but I recognized its sound over the air after inadvertently attending several since the Mets inaugurated them in 2007. Weather Education Day means a noisier, shriller, noticeably younger crowd, albeit one that reacts without much relation to what’s going on in the game. […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Abreu, Chris Young, Climate, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Facebook, Kids, New York Times, Weather There are no guarantees in baseball (just as there are no “slam dunks” or “no-brainers”), but I guess you can make a promise. Sick kids have been known to return to good health on promises of home runs hit in their name — not just in the movies and Felix Unger-produced radio serials, either — […] Sometimes you find yourself a defender of the conventional wisdom. Here’s Brian Mangan on the Mets signing Curtis Granderson. His take is smart, and it ain’t pretty. But I’m still happy. The baseball stuff I’ll deal with quickly: I take heart from the fact that Granderson’s nightmarish 2013 was driven by not one but two bone-breaking HBPs, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Despair, Fans, Justin Turner, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons ’Twas four weeks before Christmas That was it for a spell The fans became restless The club sent out e-mails Eyes […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Chris Young, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Thanksgiving First off: There’s nothing wrong with Chris Young. Heck, it’s even a potentially shrewd move. Going into the offseason, Dave Cameron of Fangraphs had Young as one of his potential free-agent bargains. Yeah, he only hit .200 last year and is never going to be great at hitting righties. But he’s 30 years old, a plus […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Disappointment, Fans, Jeff Wilpon Game Six against the Red Sox. The Steve Henderson Game. The Marlon Anderson Game. The Rob Gardner-Chris Short Double Shutout that went 18 innings and was terminated by curfew. The Largest Comeback in Mets History, at the Astrodome, when an 8-0 deficit became an 11-8 win. The Mets have played some great Saturday night games in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Cholula Hot Sauce, Chris Young, Craig Kimbrel, Gary Cohen, Jason Bay, Keith Hernandez, Mike Minor, Saturday Night, Scott Hairston, SNY I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays Twelve different pitchers have started games for the New York Mets this season. Chris Young has been neither the best nor the worst of the lot, nor, within a universe that briefly included Chris Schwinden, the most obscure among them. But he is he one I keep forgetting. I’ve all but forgotten Chris Young is in the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aramis Ramirez, Chris Young, Ryan Braun, Serviceable, Starting Pitching |
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