 
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. |
Well, that was inconclusive. I would love to exult in a thrilling Mets victory or, barring that, dissect a frustrating Mets loss. Instead, let’s just all stare out the window and wait for 6:10 PM, for we have ourselves a suspended game, something I don’t know the Mets have had at home since Ed Kranepool couldn’t […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Anthony Varvaro, B.J. Upton, Cliffdwellers, Dan Uggla, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, Evan Gattis, Fireworks Night, Freddie Freeman, Golden Sombrero, Greg Burke, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Upton, Kris Medlin, LaTroy Hawkins, Lenny Randle, Lucas Duda, Oral Surgery, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Suspended Games, Team History, Terry Collins, Ties, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Wes Westrum The Mets are bad and will continue to be bad for the rest of the season. That I’ve basically made my peace with. They have the second-worst record in the National League. Since winning seven of their first eleven games, they’ve lost 17 of 24. Nobody’s scored fewer runs among N.L. teams dating back to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Cardinals, Dae-Sung Koo, Gabe Paul, Jeremy Hefner, Losing, Rick Ankiel, Roger Kahn, Sandy Alderson, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Ty Wigginton, Zack Wheeler A night after losing one of the most horrible baseball games I’ve ever seen in head-shaking, gag-inducing fashion, the Mets took on the Marlins and played eight and a half innings of baseball that was punchless but didn’t make you want to pour lye in your eyes, which is to say it was an improvement. […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Greg Dobbs, Hopelessness, Jeremy Hefner, Marlins, Tim McClelland A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bryce Harper, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin The Miami Marlins are horrible. Besides being a cautionary lesson to the next fanbase extorted into building a Xanadu for a sharp-elbowed gazillionaire owner (which is a fancy way of saying “an owner”), the Marlins have no hitters besides Giancarlo Stanton and Greg Dobbs, who wouldn’t count except we all know Greg Dobbs could still connect […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jeffrey Loria, Jeremy Hefner, Lucas Duda Congratulations to David Wright, named Mets captain after a distinguished, classy nine years on the field and the usual tatty nine weeks or so of Mets mini-drama, replacing what should have been a couple of hours behind closed doors. I was briefly amused by Wright’s decision not to wear a captain’s C, as if the Mets […] Some Sunday at the end of August — with no hurricane in sight and no hurricane having recently hit — is the time to spend an afternoon in my hometown. The birth certificate says different, but I’m a native of Long Beach, Long Island, New York. Got myself born in Brooklyn because my Long Beach-resident […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home, Hurricanes, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Kelly Shoppach, Long Beach, Lucas Duda, Radio Just for an instant, a halo formed around the 2012 Mets. It happened when Bryan Petersen swung through Bobby Parnell’s two-out, one-two pitch in the bottom of the ninth at Marlins Park early Wednesday evening. It was strike three, but Kelly Shoppach couldn’t hold onto it. Petersen dutifully took off for first, but Shoppach found […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Closing Day, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fans, Scott Hairston David Wright now stands alone atop the admittedly rather smallish peak known as All-Time Mets Hits Leaders. He got there with a third-inning tapper up the third-base line, a little excuse-me roller that was thrown away and left Wright waving — perhaps a trifle sheepishly — from second base. It was a small hit for […] In five years’ time, we’ve gone from being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher who gallingly showed no emotion when his historically miserable first inning sealed our doom, to being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher whose emotional brittleness over his historically miserable first inning was uncomfortably apparent. Either way, the Mets were dead then and […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Embarrassment, Jeremy Hefner, Mathematically Eliminated, T#m Gl@v!ne, Terry Collins |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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