 
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. |
For consistency’s sake, we shall continue to refer to the state of affairs in which we’ve been thoroughly immersed as a pennant race, even if ours is the only team any longer racing. Mathematical niceties demand we maintain on our faces an expression of severe purposefulness when the subjects of games ahead and games remaining arise. […]  40 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Black Cat, Bryce Harper, Clint Robinson, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Matt Williams, Michael Conforto, Pennant Race, Ron Swoboda, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes The team that was a surefire bet to cruise to another division title got off to a rocky start. But then they began to right the ship, they had their pitching lined up, and once September rolled around, they took dead aim at first place, inching closer and closer day by day until they were […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Dario Alvarez, David Wright, Erik Goeddel, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Michael Stanley Band, Rich Sauveur, September, Yoenis Cespedes There has to be some Mets fan out there who was called away during the bottom of the fifth and then had something to do in the top of the ninth. If so, sorry man — because the rest of Monday night’s game was about as snoozy as it gets. There’s something to be said for a lack […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jeff Francoeur, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto The Mets won. That, as always, is the big thing. On Monday night they won by clubbing balls into the stratosphere, delivering a 14-run beatdown that turned a 7-2 deficit into a 16-7 rout. Tuesday night was different. The Mets got off to a fast start, with a Yoenis Cespedes homer making the score 2-0 before most of […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Jeanmarie Gomez, Jeff Francouer, Jeurys Familia, Larry Bowa, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Clippard, Unwritten Rules After I got home and watched the replay, Michael Conforto’s one-on, two-out, ninth-inning drive to left-center proved ordinary. It was a deep fly ball but quite catchable, and sure enough Andrew McCutchen caught it to send Friday’s Mets-Pirates game to the tenth inning, knotted at one. From Row 21 of Section 109, however, it looked perfect. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Arnold Hano, Bartolo Colon, Batting Practice, Bobby Parnell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Frustration, J.A. Happ, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Leo Durocher, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Skid Rowe, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins, Tim McCarver, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes The constantly vigilant, uncommonly retentive (not to mention preternaturally anxious) baseball fan’s mind comes fully equipped with hyperlinks. He sees something and it reminds him of something he’s seen before. It may or may not be worth the trouble of clicking on, but he know it’s there. For example, Wednesday night the Mets were ahead of […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Aaron Heilman, Braden Looper, Brian Schneider, Chris Woodward, Dae-Sung Koo, Danny Graves, Eric O'Flaherty, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Pedro Martinez, Preston Wilson, Ramon Castro, Roberto Hernandez, Ron Darling, Ryan Church, Superstition, Willie Randolph One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler I had Pedro Martinez on my back Sunday as I visited the same summer place on Flushing Bay I’ve been frequenting since 2009. MARTINEZ 45 normally sits on my t-shirt retirement shelf, but it felt appropriate to unfold it and ceremonially reactivate it in honor of Pedro Martinez entering the Hall of Fame with a […] I wish the Mets weren’t already out of the pennant race. I wish the Mets weren’t always getting their brains beaten in by the Washington Nationals. I wish the Mets weren’t always falling apart after the All-Star break. 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Eric Campbell, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Nationals, Pennant Race, Perspective, Wish Fulfillment Perhaps you’ve heard the story of John Daly, host of CBS’s What’s My Line?, introducing his broadcast of Sunday night, May 31, 1964, with the honest admission that he’d been backstage watching the most “marvelous” — or in one retelling “fantastic” — baseball game between the New York Mets and San Francisco Giants just before […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Martinez, Carlos Torres, Carlos Villanueva, Curtis Granderson, Dorothy Kilgallen, Eric Campbell, Extra Innings, Jeurys Familia, John Daly, Jon Niese, Kevin Pawlecki, Kolten Wong, Kurt Warner, Lucas Duda, Marathons, Satchel Paige, Sean Gilmartin, Tim Cooney, Yadier Molina |
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