 
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. |
We want the Mets to get up now… “I just kind of felt dead tonight,” said Dillon Gee after losing to the Yankees, 4-2. Didn’t we all inside? Didn’t everybody in a Mets uniform, with the possible exception of provisional savior Omar Quintanilla, look like Dillon felt? Enough playing dead. Rise from the dead already. It’s Sunday. It’s as […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dillon Gee, No Pulse, Omar Quintanilla, Subway Series “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing once more in frustrating fashion and falling a little further away from first place in the National League East, a perch nobody…nobody…envisioned […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Chris Schwinden, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Reality, Rockheads, Ruben Tejada Bulletin: The Mets’ starters have been recalled from Cooperstown, to which they were headed with Johan Santana’s authenticated gear. The record will show that the agent of said recall was the St. Louis Cardinals, rising up in semi-indignation after a long weekend in which their only run scored was off of a guy making his big-league […] The Mets, despite being admirable scratchers and clawers, needed a laugher. Or at least a chuckler. I no longer believe that winning builds character — it seems more likely to me that winning leads others to ascribe character to you — but you can convince me that eking out narrow victories and getting crushed by […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption Tonight shortly after six, when Dillon Gee faces the Nationals’ Roger Bernadina with the first pitch that pretends to matter in 2012, strike one would be most preferable. Shortly thereafter, when Long Beach’s own John Lannan returns the favor sixty feet and six inches from Andres Torres, our new center fielder is advised to take […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Andres Torres, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Fundamentals, Ike Davis, Joe Frazier, REO Speedwagon, Scott Hairston, Spring Training, Terry Collins, Valley Fever, Zach Lutz I’m kind of sorry I ever heard the admonition to not trust what I see in September since I’d like to believe what I watched and listened to Saturday was a true indication of where the Mets (and the Phillies) are headed. Yet I understand that they were just two games getting played because contractually […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Jason Pridie, Nick Evans, Willie Harris I think that I won’t raise a peep, A sweep half-won on R.A.’s wits; A sweep, thanks to Gee, in Game Two, A sweep enhanced by healed Jose, Upon Evans, this squad depends; Posts are blogged […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Joyce Kilmer, Nick Evans, R.A. Dickey, Sweeps Contrary to what you may glean from accounts of tonight’s game, some good things did happen in Philadelphia: 1. Ruben Tejada went two for three and crashed into the tarp to make a terrific running catch. Yes, this is the same Ruben Tejada who deserved half of an ugly error yesterday against the Brewers. I think […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Cliff Lee, Debacles, Dillon Gee, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Ryota Igarashi, Terry Collins Ah, Garbage Time. Been a while. (Theatrical sigh.) Garbage Time is weird. Losing generally produces a dull ache instead of the sharp pain felt while you still dream of the postseason, but winning, weirdly, can be more fun. And I know why: When your team’s aiming at first place, or the wild card, or even just has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Garbage Time, Padres |
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