What you want as a fan is for your team to be its best self always. Of course you do. Win. Win 162 times and then eleven more times and then shower us in confetti. Be so best en route to the Canyon of Heroes that our […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Best Selves, Carlos Gomez, Fun, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Marlins, Mickey Callaway, Not Fun, One-Hitters, Pablo Lopez, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano's nonsense, Steven Matz I particularly liked the part where Bryce Harper struck out. That I have to be more specific than that I also particularly like. I’m referring to the top of the fourth, one out, nobody on, the Mets ahead of the Nationals, 2-0. Noah Syndergaard is one-two on the consensus best player in the National League and…frozen. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard Dare to dream headlines: Murph’s 200th Hit Caps #Mets‘ Miracle Run to Wild Card. — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) September 10, 2014 Ha ha. Yeah. That isn’t going to happen, though it was fun to tweet. No, it really isn’t. Stop that. The problem is the Mets, despite being a daunting but not completely unimaginable 5 1/2 games out of […] Some days you gotta take Randy Newman’s advice: Roll down the window The Dodgers blast “I Love L.A.” after every victory at Dodger Stadium. I’ve grown familiar with the custom over the past couple of seasons while the Mets were reliably providing the cue to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Beach Boys, Dodgers, Fun, Lucas Duda, Randy Newman, Triple Plays, Yasiel Puig Vast stretches of the current season could have served nicely as an All-Star break. Four days? The Mets could’ve taken off almost any four weeks there for a while and not have been much missed. But now? Now that we’ve decided we love them again? Now that they’ve decided to express their affection for us […] “When I’m finished, I’ll get the best seat to see him play. I’ll pay whatever price to see him play.” Somewhere in the midst of the conference call Sandy Alderson held with some of us bloggers last Thursday night, the Mets’ general manager used an unremarkable phrase that caught […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Farewells, Fun, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson, Violation of Trust You gotta love Daniel Murphy. He really doesn’t give you much of a choice. You wanna get down on Murph sometimes. You wanna scold him, rap him gently on the snout with a rolled-up newspaper, admonish him off the furniture. “Murph! Don’t stand there by first base! That’s where the first baseman stands!” Then you remember […] In one of those misbegotten seasons when Daniel Murphy doesn’t leave too soon on Jason Bay’s sacrifice fly but Angel Pagan forgets to brush a foot over second, Pagan is out at first before Murphy gets home — and Murphy likely leaves too soon anyway. But the whole thing is moot because Bay strikes out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Capuano, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Jason Bay, Reluctance, Willie Harris Was it the lure of the Mets that crammed PNC Park’s third-largest crowd into the home of the Bucs the way only Greece, Ecuador and soccer draw throngs to Citi Field? Was it the promise of fireworks and Huey Lewis & The News postgame? (Can Huey Lewis really be considered “news” 27 summers after Sports?) […] My gosh, that was a lot of fun at Citi Field on Tuesday night! R.A. Dickey with another complete game, Ruben Tejada skilled at bat and in the field, Nick Evans maintaining his momentum, Angel Pagan making like it was the first half of the season and Carlos Beltran making like it was the first […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Carlos Beltran, Citi Field, Depressing, Empty, Fun, Nick Evans, Pirates, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada |
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