 
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. |
This time, somehow, they didn’t blow it. Oh, how they tried. True to my prediction of reliever Mad Libs, this time Drew Smith was fine and Adam Ottavino was really not — oh boy was Ottavino not fine, which would have been infuriating except he was so much more disgusted with himself than you could be […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Drew Millas, Drew Smith, Expos, Jake Diekman, Joey Meneses, Nationals, Tylor Megill Carlos Carrasco appeared forlorn, first on the mound, more so in the clubhouse when reporters asked him about his declining velocity, his difficulties adjusting to the timer and everything else that had gone wrong. Tommy Hunter had no choice but to wear a hit-eating grin when the camera found him at his lowest. The pitching […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 10-0 Losses, 1984 Mets, 2003 Mets, Basketball, Brad Wilkerson, Brewers, Brice Durang, Carlos Carrasco, David Cone, Expos, Gary Carter, Grand Slams, Home Openers, Luis Guillorme, Passover, Position Players Pitching, Ron Darling, San Juan Expos, Steve Trachsel, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tommy Hunter OK, there isn’t a plan — baseball routinely makes a mockery of plans — but there is a blueprint a team tries to follow, and I’m pretty sure the Mets’ blueprint wasn’t labeled LOSE WITH BARELY A WHIMPER TO PATRICK CORBIN AND ERICK FEDDE. I flashed back to 1990, when the Mets’ quest for a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Nabholz, Erick Fedde, Expos, Frustration, Nationals, Trevor Williams I came across a quote recently: “If you don’t think baseball is a big deal, don’t play it. But if you do, play it right.” The source is Tom Seaver, as told to Pat Jordan in Sports Illustrated in 1972. Tom, as ever, played it right and said it right. Yet even Tom at his […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Baseball Far From Like It Oughta Be, Bob Newhart, Expos, KBO, Marlins, S.O.S. Band, These Challenging Times, Tom Seaver, Town Square The best part about the Nationals sweeping the Cardinals in the NLCS, aside from the Cardinals being swept, is it left us plenty of time to get around to extending congratulations to our division rival on advancing to its first World Series. Washington won its first National(s) League pennant on Tuesday night, a week ahead […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Postseason, Braves, Cardinals, Division Rivals, Expos, Grudges, Marlins, Nationals, NL East League Champions, Phillies, Pirates, Sportsmanship (Sort Of) Jose Bautista will make history when he enters a game for his new team, becoming the first player to play for three separate NL East franchises in the same season. He hooked on with the Braves early in 2018, brought his talents to the Mets in May […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob McClure, Braves, Bruce Chen, Cardinals, Cubs, Expos, Jeff Francouer, Joe Orsulak, Jorge Sosa, Jose Bautista, Jose Cardenal, Livan Hernandez, Luis Ayala, Marlins, Miguel Batista, Moises Alou, Nationals, NL East Four-Timers Club, Phillies, Pirates, Players Who Get Around, Ray Burris, Richie Hebner, Team History, Todd Zeile, Willie Montanez, Yorkis Perez Tim Raines can stop retroactively beating the Mets now. Ever since his Hall of Fame election came into view a couple of months ago, I’ve seen two clips repeatedly: Tim Raines beating the Mets with his baserunning (sliding into second base on a successful stolen base attempt) and Tim Raines beating the Mets with his […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, Collusion, Expos, Hall of Fame, Harry Minor, Moment of Silence, Mookie Wilson, Scouting, Tim Raines The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes I stumbled into a realization a few weeks ago: baseball is a metaphor for baseball. It’s not a metaphor for life. It doesn’t serve as our symbolic rebirth or any of that folderol. Opening Day means that after too many months without regulation games, we get one, to be followed almost immediately by another, and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Bobby Jones, Dillon Gee, Expos, Mets Opening Day, Rudy If you’ve been with us a while, you’ve probably noticed that I hate the Marlins. As in, I really, really, really hate the Marlins. Every three months or so, I have a frothing-at-the-mouth tantrum about them. Since this will be the third of 2012, I’ll keep it fairly short. To review, though: Back in April I […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bud Selig, Expos, Hatred, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins, Nihilism, Yankees |
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