 
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. |
“Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. There’s a new world comin’ If I have one certainty as a Mets fan, it’s that no […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Darryl Strawberry, Draft, Hope, Sports Illustrated, Tom Seaver, Tucker Ashford, Youth Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Aug. 6, 2007 was an off-day for the Mets. The day before, a Mets pitcher who will remain nameless had finally secured his 300th victory, a milestone future generations will note came wearing the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Wilmer Flores Ready to kick that football, Mets fans? I’m not talking about the unasked-for arrival of a certain inferior sport before its time. Rather, I’m talking about Lucy Van Pelt and her ongoing invitation for Charlie Brown to kick the football she’s holding. Lucy, you probably remember, invariably yanked the football away, causing poor Charlie Brown to let […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Hope, Robbie Ray, Steven Matz, Wild Card When is taking an 11-1 lead to the ninth inning not a laugher? The answer isn’t “when you give the ball to Chris Mazza and wind up wondering if he can get three outs before the other guys score 10,” though Friday night’s game felt that way for a fidgety spell. No, the answer is when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Billy Crystal, Braves, Greg Maddux, Hope, John Olerud, Justin Wilson, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Wild Card, Zack Wheeler The Mets took two out of three from the Royals. Their unlikely wild-card march has them two games behind the Cubs for possession of the second N.L. spot — but they’ve drawn even with fellow contenders Philadelphia and Milwaukee. That’s the upshot of a long weekend of baseball. Of course, that’s the straightforward solution to a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Hope, J.D. Davis, Pennant Race, Perspective, Pete Alonso, Royals Jason Vargas headed into winter in style Thursday night, allowing three hits and no runs over seven innings as the Mets beat the Braves. In fact, Mets starting pitchers allowed the Braves exactly zero runs in the two teams’ final series of the year. Asterisk time! Vargas may have shaved nearly three runs off his ERA […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Devin Mesoraco, Fans, Hope, Jason Vargas, Kevin Plawecki I usually have a favorite player, but as a grown man how I acquire one has changed. It’s impossible, for instance, for me to make heroes out of young men who could quite literally be my own children. And I’ve learned too much else about the game and life to put anyone on a pedestal. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Hope, Mathematically Eliminated, Michale Conforto The upset of the season occurred Sunday afternoon as I was upset — mildly, but palpably (if not Papelbon) — that the brink-of-elimination Mets were defeated by the cusp-of-clinching Red Sox. The two teams may play in the same quadrant of the country, but they’ve hardly competed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Sale, Fan Groove Back, Hope, Jack Reinheimer, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Red Sox, Righteously Annoyed, Seth Lugo Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz |
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