How many duck-and-cover games have the Mets played in Soilmaster Stadium, anyway? And how many of those ended with some fleet, scrappity Marlin hitting a ball just past the first baseman’s glove, or just through the drawn-in infield, or just hugging the third-base line, or just catastrophic enough in some unanticipated way to spell doom […]
 
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 |  2012 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Hope, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey, Soilmaster Stadium Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. That’s Don DeLillo, in the great novel White Noise — and a quote that was uncomfortably top of mind as I watched the Mets make outs and drop balls and get whacked around by the Texas Rangers’ […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Hope, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson It’s a silly but time-honored part of being a fan to make far too much out of the first few games of the year. So, Opening Night: The Mets looked anemic at bat, Mike Pelfrey scuffled on the mound and Josh Johnson was borderline unhittable. DOOM! WE WILL NEVER WIN A GAME, EVERY PITCHER IS GOING […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, Emilio Bonifacio, Fans, Hope, R.A. Dickey The dog days are over I spent yesterday getting reacquainted with baseball — not the mesh-topped, guys-wearing-90 variety, but the real thing, with big crowds and bunting and flyovers and introductions and bats swung in anger. My first stop was watching the Tigers fall to the […] To paraphrase an old joke, when Terry Collins is on the phone, Terry Collins is ON the phone. That is to say he’s “on,” I’m guessing, whether there’s a phone line open or not. The Mets were kind enough to conduct another blogger conference call this evening, this time with the Mets’ manager as our subject […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Brad Emaus, Hope, Pedro Beato, Terry Collins, Willie Harris The Times’ baseball preview brought along a column by George Vecsey that couldn’t have been better calibrated to infuriate Mets fans. Vecsey writes that we are conditioned to accept a magical season every generation or so, but know nothing of the sort is in the cards for 2011. “Absolutely not this year,” as he adds for […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, George Vecsey, Hope, Media Criticism, Sandy Alderson Update: Here’s video. (And a Febreze ad, oh boy.) The Mets, as various wags noted, manage to lose twice by one run yesterday, dropping split-squad decisions to the Astros and Nationals. The team continues to maintain a huffy silence amid no shortage of evidence that its owners are in dire financial difficulty. Luis Castillo and Oliver […] Like my blog partner, I registered the wholly unexpected presence of Jason Isringhausen in Mets camp — and, however briefly, allowed myself to dream. Stories like Izzy’s are an object lesson in why it’s good that fans don’t run baseball teams. The reaction of the Sandy Alderson braintrust to Izzy’s availability, I’m sure, was a businesslike […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Disappointment, Generation K, Hope, Jason Isringhausen, Recidivst Mets, Team History Always make the difference between optimism and hope. I’m not an optimist at all — I’m a prisoner of hope. I don’t believe in optimism. That’s too thin. I hope Carlos Beltran is feeling 29 again. That Jose Reyes is all revved up to go at […] Update: Audio! Now you can say TLDL instead of TLDR! Thought I’d post what I read at Varsity Letters’ fifth-anniversary shindig last week, for posterity but mostly because it’s a reflection on a Mets game we’d be better off to recall more often, particularly in these trying days. Odds are you’ll recognize it at once — […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Braves, Fans, Hope, John Rocker, Memories, Mike Piazza, Shea Stadium, Superstition |
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