 
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 bad taste of Friday night’s Mets disaster lingered into Saturday, with Twitter moaning and comment sniping and unhappiness all around. Fortunately, I thought, there’s another ballgame today. Because one of the least-celebrated but most important aspects of baseball is that winning fixes things. A crisp win is like a cleansing breeze that airs out everything and leaves […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Pierzynski, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Juan Lagares, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud Sunday afternoon found me driving a rental car through deteriorating weather from Boston to New York, listening to the Mets try to salvage a game from the Marlins and their recently-civilian manager. The Mets were trying to escape their Miami enemies and what the weather would do to departures at New York’s airports. Between these two […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Padres, Ruben Tejada, West Coast Trips Jon Niese has a suspect shoulder that demands periodic trips to the 15-day DL, and a mental approach to his craft that calls for the 80-year DL. He begins a game with a plan, and was born with the talent to execute it. But he’s incapable of adjusting if anything goes wrong, whether it’s his location or which pitches […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Darrell Ceciliani, Jonathon Niese, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz The Mets won a game tonight that was a little snoozy, frankly. Jacob deGrom was pretty good, being more inclusive with the change-ups he’d left out of his repertoire in his last two starts. Kevin Plawecki came out during the game’s key at-bat by gigantic Orioles slugger Chris Davis and gave deGrom a little pep talk, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Willie Montanez Useful reminder: Baseball will drive you crazy if you let it. Every so often a thought creeps into my head that I immediately try to shoo away: It’s that the team that wins the World Series will be the good team with the best luck, the one that has the fewest guys injured and the most bounces […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Gio Gonzalez, Ian Desmond, Jonathon Niese, Juan Lagares OK, show of hands. Back in February, who’d have taken ending April 15-8 and in first place by 4 1/2 games? Yeah, I thought so. And yet here we are in the opening hours of May and everybody’s unhappy. The bullpen’s gone to pieces. The bats haven’t been productive. And most glaringly, the defense up the middle has fallen […] Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to happen. It usually does — 24 separate occasions over the past 19 seasons are evidence that you weren’t concocting worst-case scenarios […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Hockey, Jarret Cosart, Juan Lagares, Marlins, WHOA! Wins Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we notice how Met turnover subtly became Met stability. There was an article in the Washington Post the other day that fascinated me. It informed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Team History In the first days of Faith and Fear a decade ago, Jason and I addressed each other directly, largely because nobody else was reading. For this post we’re going back to the idea. My thoughts are below, with Jason’s preceding. “I don’t know if Rusty is gay, but I’d like to think he is. I’m sick […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Bean, Daniel Murphy, John Smoltz, Progress In the first days of Faith and Fear a decade ago, Greg and I addressed each other directly, largely because nobody else was reading. For this post we’re going back to the idea. My thoughts are below, with Greg’s to follow. There’s no PR land mine the Mets can’t step on, but at least this week their […] |
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