You want home runs at Citi Field, perennially notorious as a launching pad for next to nothing? Met home runs, that is? Then slate your Saturday dates for when many are thinking that it would sure be delicious to have a ballgame with lunch. An in-depth exploration of 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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Keon Broxton, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Saturday Afternoons, Steven Matz Beat the Mets, beat the Mets Because the Mets are really sucking this year Growing up on Long Island, I was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Drew Smith, Home Runs, Kevin Kaczmarski, Kevin Plawecki, Long Island, Meet The Mets The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets. Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball? Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Curtis Granderson, Dom Smith, Fernando Salas, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Mysterious Dominance, Neil Walker, Phillies, Wilmer Flores When Yoenis Cespedes re-accommodated yet another baseball over a relatively distant fence five innings into Wednesday night’s beatdown of Philadelphia, I was quite pleased. Really, I was. I glanced up from my tablet, mentioned aloud, “Hey that’s his third,” and, I’m pretty sure, raised a fist slightly above my right ear to further signify my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Home Runs, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Passover, Ray Ramirez, Ren & Stimpy, Travis d'Arnaud, Ty Kelly, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes We now join a traditionally accurate version of “Meet The Mets,” already in progress. ’Cause the Mets are really That’s not how it goes, but it is a reflection of Mets baseball like it oughta be, right? This is the pitching-rich organization, the franchise defined by the Franchise, whose most delicate […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home Runs, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Romy And Michele's High School Reunion, Team History OK, that was fun. If Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman represented Plan F and G, or some letter fairly far along in the stack, what letter was reserved for Rafael Montero? Montero hadn’t started a game since last April and had done nothing since then to make any member of the Mets brass think well of him. He spent […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Home Runs, Jose Fernandez, Jose Reyes, Kelly Johnson, Nick Wittgren, Rafael Montero, Walkoffs, Yoenis Cespedes Brandon Nimmo is more than just happy to be here, but make no mistake: he’s happy to be here. Look at the smile that accompanied him around the bases after he bopped the first home run of his career, the one that elevated the Mets to a 7-1 lead en route to a soggy 10-2 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Gary Rajsich, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Rain Delays, Seth Lugo, Smile, The Simpsons, Yoenis Cespedes Yep, this was all too typical of recent Mets games: in the seventh, the second baseman had a runner dead to rights at third, and hit the third baseman’s glove, only to see the ball bound away and skitter up the third-base line to bring the enemy go-ahead run home. It wasn’t over — they fought back […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Cubs, Home Runs, Jeurys Familia, Mo Vaughn, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes “It has happened! In their fifty-first season, Johan Santana has thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!” “And what’s left of a never-got-one nature to ache for anyway? Put aside a World Series championship even if you’ve never seen one before, because the Mets have two of those. They […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bill Veeck, Bobby Thomson, Breaking Bad, Car Wash, Darryl Strawberry, Designated Hitter, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Impossible, Jack Lang, James Shields, Joe Garagiola, Johan Santana, Julio Franco, Ken Davidoff, Kentucky Derby, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Memory, Nyquist, Pitchers Hitting, Ramon Castro, Red Smith, Team History, The Power to Evoke, The Shawshank Redemption, The Total Uselessness of the Designated Hitter, Vin Scully, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra I missed the first Met home run of Tuesday night while I was consumed by the culinary arts. I missed the second Met home run of Tuesday night because I was standing in line waiting to partake of the democratic process. Don’t worry, the Mets said — we’ll make more. And I approve that message. If you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Home Runs, Juan Lagares, Logan Verrett, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Best, Rafael Montero, The Beatles, Yoenis Cespedes |
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