Every year my friend Kevin treats me to a game against the Braves at Citi Field. Not much of a treat, you might think, the Braves being the Braves, but we waited through the 2010s for the spirit of our mutual favorite Met year 1999 to come back around, and sure enough, it’s Mets-Braves all […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Eduardo Escobar, Hallucinations, Max Scherzer, Never Giving Up, One Size Fits Some, Prescience, Relief Pitching, Scherzey, T-shirts, Taijuan Walker, Unclimbable Holes Jacob deGrom returned, as promised, and was more or less as we remembered — he hit 102 on the D.C. gun, looked like his old lanky and deadly self, and befuddled various Nationals with most of his arsenal. The lone blemish came in the fourth, when deGrom’s location eluded him and Victor Robles and Luis […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Cory Abbott, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Farewells, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Joey Lucchesi, Joey Meneses, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Kramer Robertson, Lefties, Luis Garcia, Mychal Givens, Nationals, Sam Clay, Stephen Nogosek, Steve Cohen, Thomas Szapucki, Trade Deadline, Trades, Yadiel Hernandez, Yoan Lopez What was going through Darin Ruf‘s mind as he lay on or perhaps in the netting in San Francisco while the ball he’d been pursuing bounced around somewhere nearby in an entire-world sense but entirely too far away in a make-a-baseball-play sense while a less-than-ideal quantity of Mets hustled around the bases? Perhaps he was thinking […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cobb, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Giants, Luis Gonzalez, Maurico Llovera, Pete Alonso |
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