 
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. |
[T]he ending always comes at last The Mets began this baseball season by playing the Florida Marlins. They suffered their first loss while playing the Florida Marlins. They absorbed their first serious body blow when they were swept by the Florida Marlins. They […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Etiquette, Beaky Buzzard, Bugs Bunny, Dan Uggla, Gaby Sanchez, Gary Carter, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Jon Niese, Marlins, Mets Managers, Mike Francesa, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Stanton, Soilmaster Stadium, Wally Backman Things that went wrong in one Mets fan’s day: * The Mets didn’t get a single runner to second base. What a dull, listless game this was. I remember Chris Carter nearly letting a ball go over his head in left and Jose Reyes smacking a single off Roy Oswalt. Everything else isn’t just forgotten — […] It’s great that Mike Pelfrey turned around his performance from Labor Day when he stunk out Nationals Park. He was, on Saturday at Citi Field, a breath of fresh air, holding the Phillies runless for seven innings. Pelf certainly held his own as long as he could, until the eighth when the Phillies began to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Fox, Jerry Manuel, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Mike Pelfrey, Tim McCarver The Mets lost a squeaker, as Jose Reyes smacked a ground ball to Gaby Sanchez with two outs in the ninth and the tying run on third. Damn — particularly with Angel Pagan having looked a bit leisurely on a ball off the wall that arguably led to a fatal extra Marlin run. Still, the […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Jerry Manuel, Marketing, Omar Minaya, Ownership At least Jerry played the kids. There really isn’t a lot else to say about this one — Johan Santana spotted the Astros a three-spot while searching for his changeup in an ugly first inning, ripped a double past the third baseman instead of bunting, David Wright hit a home run, and Ike Davis started a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Rodriguez, Garbage Time, Jerry Manuel, Omar Minaya, Ownership, R.A. Dickey, Wally Backman Checking in on the Mets from afar — There was only hit, and it was by Hamels? K-Rod did what? — while bouncing around between Florida and Rhode Island and various airports, I didn’t quite realize how mad I was at them. Until I sat down to watch an otherwise anonymous, playing-out-the-string game in Houston […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anger, Disappointment, Francisco Rodriguez, Garbage Time, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Omar Minaya You know exactly what happened between Frankie Rodriguez and his father-in-law…what exactly provoked the Mets’ closer into a situation from which he’s to be charged with third-degree assault? Neither do I. Thus, I’ll leave the amateur psychology to experts like SNY’s doctors of uneducated guessing and conjecture, Bobby Ojeda and Chris Carlin. Any event that involves the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Ojeda, Chris Carlin, Frankie Rodriguez, Hisanori Takahashi, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Manny Acosta, Media, Melvin Mora, SNY My contempt for my team was utter and total as the bottom of the ninth inning unfolded at Citizens Bank Park Friday night. I imagine yours was, too. What a travesty this evening had been. At the risk of proving everything Bobby Ojeda, Andy Martino, and Brian Schneider have been saying about the Mets lacking […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Diaz, Bob Bailor, Bobby Parnell, Distractions from Drubbings, Enabler, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Mike Hessman, Mike Sweeney, Neil Allen, Pedro Feliciano, Prentice Redman, RIck Ownbey, Team History As Games Behind go, my rule of thumb for holding out the slightest Met hope before September is 7½. I adopted it in August of 1973. The Mets were buried in the National League East cellar, but it was a shallow enough grave so that I could invest a modicum of faith in the concept […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Brian McCann, Davey Johnson, Defiance, Jerry Manuel, Life Support, Mike Pelfrey, Nolan Ryan, Thirds, Wally Backman You could have colored me the whitest shade of pale orange and blue when I saw Frankie “Release K-Rod Now” Rodriguez return to the mound in the bottom of the tenth inning to attempt to do with a one-run lead what he couldn’t do with a two-run lead in the bottom of the ninth inning. “I […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Darryl Hamilton, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, General Custer, Ideal Saves, Jay Payton, Jeff Francoeur, Jerry Manuel, Johan Santana, Managing, Phil Cuzzi, Plays That Don't Show Up in the Box Score, Relief Pitching, Streaks, Travis Ishikawa, Umpiring |
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