 
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 was the ninth inning against the Phillies, 10 days ago, and ESPN’s little win probability thing (a sop to gamblers, but that’s another post) was making me insane. It said the Phillies had an 8% chance of coming back to beat the Mets, which was obviously wrong. Obviously and deliberately and nefariously wrong. I didn’t […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Ashby, Brewers, Brice Turang, ESPN, Freddy Peralta, J.D. Martinez, Jackson Chourio, Jesse Winker, Joel Payamps, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Adames Dull and dreary turned to bright and shiny in an instant — the very last instant. If you’re gonna make such a switch, latest inevitably proves better than never. Had Brandon Nimmo not swung and connected for the walkoff two-run homer that transformed a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 victory, dull and dreary was prepared to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bright, Dreary, Dull, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Esix Snead, ESPN, Jarred Kelenic, Jeff McNeil, John Bateman, Luis Severino, Mother’s Day, Old Friends, Pinch-Runners Who Homer, Pinch-Running, Ray Sadecki, Ronald Acuna Jr., Shiny, The Shawshank Redemption, Zack Short You can’t argue with the numbers. I mean you can, because somebody always wants to argue something, but you’d have to dig pretty deep for a debate let alone a dispute when the Mets are steaming along as they have thus far this young season. The Mets have won 16 of their first 23 games, a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, ESPN, Great Starts, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Robinson Cano, Rosters, Series Win, Streaks Later this week I’ll be along with the Tenth Annual awarding of the Oscar’s Caps, recognizing the year in Mets Pop Culture. But one Mets pop culture sighting in particular was too big to confine to a sentence or paragraph amid a catalogue of other, albeit worthy sightings (all Mets pop culture sightings are worthy), […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ESPN, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Mookie Wilson, Nick Davis, Spike Lee A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill The Mets won the damn thing, by a score of 8-7. Those of you with enough years of scar tissue will remember that as channeling Bob Murphy’s judgment after the Mets held off the Phils at the Vet in the summer of 1990, with the last out a liner speared by momentary Met Mario Diaz on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bob Murphy, Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius, Edwin Diaz, ESPN, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Jose Alvarado, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Replay Review, Rhys Hoskins Well, Mama told me there’d be days like these. My mother also knows baseball and has a head for business. So she told me some other things too. For example, she told me that days like these are a lot more likely if you’ve got cheapjack owners who can’t or won’t pay to put the best product […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, ESPN, Hunter Strickland, Paul Sewald, Rick Porcello, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler “I’m not really throwing the ball where I want to,” Jacob deGrom explained to reporters Sunday night. He probably meant in relation to where Brave batters could hit it. I’d add I’d have preferred Jake not throwing the ball on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, which no matter how it’s […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ESPN, Hank Aaron, Jacob deGrom, Paul Sewald, Radio, Sam Jethroe, Sunday Night Baseball, Tommie Agee, Unnatural Environs How many ways, exactly, can one game be a make-up date? The obvious: the Mets and Yankees reported for duty in the Bronx to complete the July half of this year’s Subway Series, which had been erased by rain. Despite an extremely wet morning in New York and a brief in-game squall, the second try proceeded […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, ESPN, Jacob deGrom, Keith Olbermann, Rain, Yankees ESPN asked if the Mets and Nationals could come out and play Sunday night. Sure, they were told. But could they come out and play well? That was going to be more difficult on another Arctic evening in early April. Not that ESPN cared. They need product, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Asdrubal Cabrera, Daniel Murphy, ESPN, Great Starts, Headaches, Jacob Rhame, Kiss, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Seth Lugo, Sweep, Yoenis Cespedes |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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