 
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. |
As Charlie Rich taught me when I was just a lad listening to WGBB, people like to talk, lord, don’t they love to talk. When they can’t talk, they whisper. Sometimes the whispering works as such: • First somebody whispers to somebody about this guy. • Then somebody disseminates the whispers about the guy. • Then everybody rushes […]  28 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Rubin, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Whisper Campaigns Apologies to anyone who wanted a late-night recitation of Metly things — your correspondent fell asleep somewhere between the conclusion of the game and the beginning of the chronicling. Honestly, it was the proper reaction to the one of the longer, more pedestrian, less elegant baseball games you’ll see: terrible pitching, bad baserunning, lousy fielding. Particularly […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda Reminders of a couple of worthwhile events that are coming up this weekend, each intended to give a hand to those who could use it: On Saturday, Mets fan Tommy LaBella, who passed away earlier this year at the way-too-soon age of 22, will be remembered at the first annual Tommy LaBella Softball Tournament at D’Onofrio […] After wrapping up their current series in Miami, the Mets re-enter the general baseball conversation for a little while, which has its upside and its down. The upside is everything the Mets do in their succeeding nine games against St. Louis, Atlanta and Washington potentially impacts the playoff picture. The down is that what appears […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Daniel Murphy, David Samson, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Justin Ruggiano, Kelly Shoppach, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Mike Baxter, MLB Network, Ozzie Guillen, Pennant Race, Steve Cishek In lost seasons — a subject about which we’re now experts — this is the toughest time. The dreams of contention are gone, and you’ve worked through the disbelief and the anger and come round to acceptance. Yet nobody’s moved on yet. The veterans who have shown themselves to be past their shelf life are […] Strange world we live in when the Mets game on what we used to call “free TV” isn’t readily available via the service millions pay for because…well, ya got me. Two corporations are in the middle of a pissing match and it’s the loyal customers who get spritzed. So what else is new? When I […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corporate Nonsense, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Mike Baxter, Radio You know how your various Mets come on the big screen early in the game and tell you not to run on the field and such, and then David Wright caps it off by reminding us that “Mets fans are the greatest fans in the world!”? Here are a few opportunities (besides continuing to support […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Good Deeds, Ike Davis, Mets Fans, Tommy LaBella, Tug McGraw When it was all finally over and the Mets convened at the mound for a rather muted celebration, Manny Acosta kind of rolled his eyes up at the sky and spread his hands in equal parts thanks and exasperation. It was an entirely appropriate response to his own pitching — in the 10th he walked […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin, Manny Acosta, Mike Baxter, Scott Hairston “It feels good for me, but it would have felt even better if we had won that ballgame.” “We lost, so I can’t get too excited. If we would’ve won, it would’ve been more exciting.” “I just wanted to play hard, but it didn’t matter because we lost.” “It was great while it was happening. but when they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Biggest Donkeys, David Wright, Desi Relaford, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frank Thomas, Gregg Jefferies, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Lastings Milledge, Luis Hernandez, Mackey Sasser, Marlon Anderson, Mike Jacobs, Mo Vaughn, Moises Alou, Rusty Staub, Scott Hairston, Steve Bieser, Team History, Todd Hundley
Our pal Shannon Shark at Mets Police has an interesting theory that the Mets aren’t an organically occurring baseball team as much as they’re a serialized television drama that I’ve been writing since 1962, which is flattering of him to suggest, but I must reject the notion because I maintain the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada |
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