 
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. |
I sensed trouble from the start. I’m not sure why I did — the ball Neil Walker hit to begin the bottom of the Pirates’ eighth wasn’t going out and wasn’t parachuting in. It was ticketed for short of the warning track, a quick trot at worst for either the left fielder or the center fielder. […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Disappointment, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, Pirates, PNC Park The high-flying, temporarily much-beloved, pitch-count-focused, never-say-die Mets arrived in Miami to find the Marlins in the home version of their horrible new uniforms and ensconced in their horrible new park before a somewhat larger number of their horrible non-fans than we’re used to seeing. There was a lot new there, on both sides, but one thing […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Greg Dobbs, Jeffrey Loria, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Marlins Park Johan Santana knows from customer service. We ask the ace to pitch like an ace, his year away from acedom notwithstanding, and on Saturday he delivered like, well, an ace. Not Johan of the Twins nor Johan of the Trade (let alone Johan of His Finest Hour and several sublime Met moments before and after) […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Customer Service, Daniel Murphy, Frank Francisco, Johan Santana, Mike Nickeas, Tom Seaver The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Moyers. Not literally, of course. If we didn’t have Jamie Moyer pitching in the major leagues at the age of 49 years, 5 months and 12 days, what would those of us who clock in at a mere 49 years and 4 months have to feel relatively […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Anchorman, Crafty Lefthanders, Jamie Moyer, Johan Santana, Steve Carlton Between one of Tuesday night’s half-innings when nobody was touching either starting pitcher, Citi Field’s bounty of video screens posted a trivia question answered by a random face in the crowd. Engrossed in conversation, I didn’t catch the question, but when I heard the answer, I knew what would happen next: the answer would walk […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cognitive Dissonance, Continuum, Dave Kingman, Emotion, Enemies, Free Agency, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marlins, Mets Fans, Opponents If there’s one thing Johan Santana does not strike me as, it’s insecure. He suffered the worst outing of his career Tuesday night in Atlanta — same place his professional life had to be put on interminable hold in 2010 — yet judging by his calm demeanor and rational responding during a postgame media grilling […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Fiftieth Anniversary, Insecurity, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets Fans It may feel like we’ll see more losses like Wednesday afternoon’s than Ruben Tejada will see pitches this year, but it won’t be nearly that bad, statistically speaking. We can’t lose more than 158 games and Ruben sees almost that many pitches in a given week. Yet sometimes you can’t argue with how something feels. Wrightlessness […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Johnson, Ike Davis, Injuries, Johan Santana, Relief Pitching, Roger Craig, Ruben Tejada, Stephen Strasburg, Walter Johnson “This is the train to Woodside and Penn Station,” the Long Island Rail Road conductor informed us as the westbound 11:04 pulled out of Jamaica on Opening Day. “Change at Woodside for Shea.” Best advice I’d heard since my iPod’s 1986 playlist was telling me twenty minutes earlier to get Metsmerized, get Metsmerized. Hello dark […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Chipper Jones, Frank Francisco, Gary Carter, Home Opener, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets Opening Day, Shea Stadium Somewhere around the poorly named 46th St-Bliss I got a little carried away: On Opening Day even the 7 local seems awesome. That wasn’t true. The 7 local is never awesome, particularly not when the MTA has decided that Opening Day at Citi Field is a fine time to do track work. But I swear it felt […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Johan Santana, Mets Opening Day, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Pastornicky Johan Santana lives! I saw it for myself via two innings of televised encouragement Tuesday. He pitched to the Cardinals, he emerged with his left arm attached to his left shoulder and he wasn’t diagnosed with a rare tropical disease on his way to the clubhouse. Talk about a super Tuesday. Everything else pales in comparison […] |
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