 
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. |
The Mets lost, 10-8, and no, this is not a blog malfunction. They essentially played the same occasionally hopeful, ultimately deflating and consistently ridiculous game on Wednesday night as they did on Tuesday night. This time around … oh, must we? I suppose that’s why you’re here and we’re here, so yes, we must. Things started […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Coors Field, Kevin Plawecki, Mickey Callaway, Robert Gsellman, Rockies, Ryan McMahon, Seth Lugo, The Holy Books You don’t bring a Jason Vargas to a slugfest if you wish to prevail in the slugfest. Then again, you might not have a full-fledged slugfest without Jason Vargas, for as offensive a bent as Coors Field possesses, it takes a Vargas to ensure at least one side’s scoring […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Art Donovan, Asdrubal Cabrera, Butch Huskey, Carlos Mendoza, Chris Beck, Coors Field, Dom Smith, Don Joyce, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Rockies, Team History, Tim Peterson, Young Outfields They’ve played big-league baseball in Colorado for nearly a quarter-century now somehow, which means it’s lost its capacity to shock. There have been some refinements along the way — fences, humidors and the like — that have dialed the videogame-gone-mad experience of early games against the Rockies down to levels approximating baseball on Earth. Note I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Chris Flexen, Coors Field, Curtis Granderson “What a miserable series.” 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Coors Field, Crooked Umps, Jacob deGrom, Jim Henderson, Juan Lagares, Things That Never Happened There are moments when you sense things can’t get any better for your team. Those are moments that are both gratifying and terrifying. Peak Mets, to dabble in the fashionable vernacular, may have been achieved early this past week. Bartolo Colon had homered on Saturday, his accomplishment stayed the toast of the town well into Monday. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Charlie Blackmon, Coors Field, Jerry Blevins, Jon Gray, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Network, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition You don’t see too many games like we saw Saturday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Coors Field, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores I’m not sure what game the Mets and Rockies were playing out there in Denver, but it sure didn’t look much like baseball. “Playing pinball,” Keith Hernandez blurted on a night he seemed alternately entertained and horrified by the bloodletting down there on the field. That’s pretty close, I suppose. Still, whatever the game was, I’m glad the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Coors Field, Curtis Granderson, Replay, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes No matter which hitters constitute the heart of the Colorado Rockies order in a given series when the Mets play in Denver, the most daunting presence in the home team lineup remains Coors Field. The 20-year veteran may not intimidate in the fashion it did when it was a brash rookie, yet you can never […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, Bobby Abreu, Charlie Culberson, Coors Field, Dante Bichette, Jenrry Mejia, Joe Orsulak, Juan Lagares, Kyle Farnsworth, LaTroy Hawkins, Mike Remlinger, Nolan Ariendo Remember when Matt Harvey nearly no-hit the Twins? That was fun. Since then, this is what we’ve had: Sunday: Snowed out Monday: Snowed out Tuesday: Lose double-header Wednesday: Snowed out Thursday: Lose And now here’s Matt Harvey on tap again. Well, except he’s facing a team that’s just a bit better than the Twins. Oh, and it’s supposed to rain. I assumed they would lose […] Please come to Denver Submitted for your approval…nah, scratch that. Who here would approve of anything the Mets did Tuesday night in the city that’s been their personal Twilight Zone for two decades? Not fans of the Mets. Certainly not fans of crisp, clean baseball. Perhaps fans of the Rockies, but honestly, those […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Gonzalez, Coors Field, David Nied, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young, Greg Burke, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Francis, Marlon Byrd, Michael Cuddyer, Rafael Betancourt, Rockies, Rod Serling, Ruben Tejada, Scott Atchison, Snow |
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