 
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. |
I’m sorry it went down like this My premonition called me in the middle innings Wednesday night from the Molly Pitcher rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike. He used a pay phone. He runs a very old-school operation. “The Mets,” he said over a […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Antonio Bastardo, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Ruiz, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Freddie Galvis, Glenn Frey, Peter Bourjos, Phillies, Premonitions, Travis d'Arnaud I missed the first Met home run of Tuesday night while I was consumed by the culinary arts. I missed the second Met home run of Tuesday night because I was standing in line waiting to partake of the democratic process. Don’t worry, the Mets said — we’ll make more. And I approve that message. If you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Home Runs, Juan Lagares, Logan Verrett, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Best, Rafael Montero, The Beatles, Yoenis Cespedes The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets were the champions of the National League in 2015 without anybody being officially judged particularly valuable. The Baseball Writers Association of America has an award that declares who’s Most Valuable, and no Met got anywhere near it. Twenty National Leaguers were named on BBWAA ballots and only two of those names belonged to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Awards, Curtis Granderson, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Willie Mays, Yoenis Cespedes, Yogi Berra What used to be trivia is now widely disseminated fact, so there’ll be no wowing you with the historical nugget that the Mets have never won the first game of a World Series. Don Buford, Ken Holtzman, Bruce Hurst, Jose Vizcaino and Alex Gordon — among others — have seen to that. And if the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Alcides Escobar, Alex Gordon, Bartolo Colon, Believe, Car Trouble, Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, Don Buford, Eric Hosmer, Fathers and Sons, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer The physicist Leonard Mlodinow has something to say about baseball narratives. This is from The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (via this Freaknonomics post): …if one team is good enough to warrant beating another in 55% of its games, the weaker team will nevertheless win a seven-game series about four times out of 10. And […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud Let’s go back to the top of the sixth Monday night, with the Mets facing the eternally irritating Marlins at a cheerfully rambunctious Citi Field. With the game tied at 1-1, two outs and runners on first and third, Derek Dietrich popped up a 1-1 pitch from Sean Gilmartin. It drifted over the Marlins’ dugout, where David […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Fans, Pennant Race, Travis d'Arnaud 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 You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday 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 […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Sele, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Bonilla, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Dave Magadan, Duke Snider, Harmonic Convergence, Irish Rovers, Jason Phillips, Jeremy Griffiths, Juan Samuel, Julio Machado, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Jacobs, Mike Marshall, Mike Pelfrey, Offensive Explosion, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tony Clark, Tracy Stallard, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes 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 |
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