 
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. |
It’s not surprising that they lost. Losing is what they do. They’ve lost more often than they’ve won as a matter of course for five going on six seasons. On May 31, 2009, buoyed by a week of having played teams who seemed indisputably lousier than them (Washington and Florida), the New York Mets stood seven […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arietta, Losing, Nate Schierholtz, Team History, Zack Wheeler Sometimes the jokes write themselves: Wednesday was Dinosaur Education Day at Citi Field, which led me to imagine a Jonah Hill type patiently explaining to Terry Collins why bunting is often a bad strategic play and urging him to use his best reliever in the most critical situation instead of when the eighth inning was […] When your team has been immersed in an era of losing, your main ambition for them is that they start winning. Or at least stop losing more than they win. Nobody aspires to be .500 unless you can’t get and stay there. We haven’t gotten there and then beyond it for keeps since 2008. Hence, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Banner Day, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, Doubleheaders, Rafael Montero, Ralph Kiner 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 Just for an evening, it would be pretty fun to be a big-league ballplayer. I don’t mean as a walk-on — a Joe Boyd thrust onto a stage not normally yours. I mean, wouldn’t it be fun to be an invisible traveling companion — someone who could see what the player sees, hear what the […] To put it in Verizonspeak, I’m “nowstalgic” for Friday night, the night I went to Citi Field and left toting a sack full of ebullience that fit my mood better than any single-sized free shirt will ever fit me. Friday night was my fifth game of the year. It was on target to be my […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Abreu, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Kyle Farnsworth, Marlins, Saturday Night The Mets of recent vintage have been more about sabotage than camouflage, but for a night all was well in Flushing. The good vibes started with Jenrry Mejia, whose mix of cutters, sinkers and sliders had the Cardinals flailing, muttering and occasionally smashing bats. Mejia faltered in the seventh, as per usual for 2014 Mets […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Travis d'Arnaud, Uniforms Past Here’s a sign of spring: The 2014 Topps cards are out. Let’s not go overboard: This isn’t the greatest set. The photography’s good again, but Topps has developed an unfortunate predilection for novelty shots, with far too many players romping with teammates (and often on dreaded horizontal cards), getting doused with Gatorade or showing off Oscar […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Hope, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Drew, The Holy Books, Trades, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler If you are a spiritual descendant of Virginia of “yes, Virginia…” fame this Christmas Day, you may want to take the following observation with a grain of salt or at least an ounce of nog. When the Mets were done hosting Queens schoolchildren last week and the player who took on the role of Santa Claus […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Eric Young Jr., John Franco, Mets Holiday Party, Santa Claus, The Sopranos Twenty-five Mets said hello on Opening Day, April 1. Twenty-two of them said some variation on goodbye — whether it was farewell, so long, see ya later or be back in a bit — before Closing Day, September 29. Let us review how 88% of the 2013 Mets stopped or at least paused being 2013 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, LaTroy Hawkins, Most Valuable Met |
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