 
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. |
That was a brutal way to lose a baseball game. I’m referring to tonight against Cody Ross and the Marlins, though I could be referring to Wednesday afternoon against the Nationals, Monday night against the Nationals, Sunday afternoon against the Giants, last Wednesday against the Reds or last Monday against the Reds. But then […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cody Ross, Johan Santana, Josh Johnson, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | American Beauty, Guillermo Mota, Guillermo Mota Sucks, Henry Blanco, Johan Santana, Wind Once upon a time I liked this baseball game just fine. David Wright took Old Man Moyer convincingly deep in the very first inning for a 3-0 lead, and yesterday’s memories of dropped pop-ups and Doc Halladay and getting shellacked receded at the best possible speed. Yes, it got interesting in the bottom of the […] That was the coldest doubleheader in the history of Citi Field. Granted, it was the first doubleheader in the history of Citi Field: the first one that required only one admission, the first one that left you doubting whether you’d leave with all the fingers and toes you brought and the first one that led us […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Doubleheaders, First Place, Guest Relations, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez In case you haven’t turned on ESPN in the last week, the NFL Draft is in progress. It began Thursday night and it runs through late June. Makes for captivating theater, as in you’d have to hold me captive to get me to sit inside Radio City Music Hall for all 481 rounds of it. Correction: […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, David Wright, Ed Kranepool, Football, Frankie Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana Winning in 20 innings by using 24 Mets who accumulated 9 hits despite batting against 2 Cardinal position players for the last 3 of those innings has generated some truly deep thinking among our readers, as evidenced by our unusually busy (for a Sunday) comments section and in-box. It’s great stuff, particularly the following, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2010 Mets, Al Jackson, Bill Russell, Billy Cowan, Bob Shaw, Bobby Klaus, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Cliff Floyd, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Ernest Hemingway, Felipe Lopez, George Stone, George Theodore, J.C. Martin, Jack Fisher, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Brewer, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Karim Garcia, Ken Boswell, Marathon, Orlando Cepeda, Pete Richert, Phil Hennigan, Randy Johnson, Rusty Staub, Rutgers, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ubaldo Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson, World War I Tim McCarver called it a classic. The Baseball Tonight crawl called it a classic. Yet don’t mistake long for excellent. That was not a classic. It was certifiably long, the final result was immensely preferable to the alternative, and there were certainly aspects of it to like and even treasure, but that 20-inning Mets win […] 53 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Inning Game, Absurdity, Albert Pujols, Alex Cora, Artie Ziff, C.B. Bucknor, Ed Sudol, Felipe Lopez, Frankie Rodriguez, Futility, Galen Cisco, Hank Webb, Jeff Francoeur, Joe Mather, Johan Santana, Jose Oquendo, Jose Reyes, Kyle Lohse, Les Rohr, Luis Castillo, Marathon, Mike Pelfrey, Ralph Wiggum, Raul Valdes, Ron Darling, Ryan Ludwick, Tim McCarver, Tom Gorman, Tony LaRussa, Yadier Molina I wonder how many Ollie Perez starts Johan Santana would have to make to have me look at him in anything but awe. Even after he gave up five runs in five innings Sunday, when I saw him giving postgame interviews, all I could think was, “There’s the man who threw a three-hit shutout on […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Bruney, Frankie Rodriguez, Gilligan's Island, Jeff Francoeur, Johan Santana, Josh Willingham, Mike Jacobs, Nationals, Raul Valdes, Starters Don't Last Seven Innings In a post to Twitter, Rick Coutinho of ESPN Radio says RHP Sean Green has modified his delivery, and his sidearm motion is even more pronounced than it was last year. Anybody who was caught up in the peer pressure of seventh grade in the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, Al Leiter, Batting Orders, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Daveotronic 5000, David Sloane, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Fred Wilpon, Happy Days, Henry Winkler, Jerry Manuel, Joe Cocker, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mike Jacobs, Pat Morita, Rod Barajas, Saturday Night Fever, Sean Green, Spring Training, Team History, Willie Randolph, Yusmeiro Petit Ben Sheets won’t be a Met. Didn’t think he would be, and I wasn’t thinking he should be except for a song. Instead, the dude got himself an entire $10 million opera (albeit an opera whose running time is just one year). I’m not crushed. Think of the last time the Mets counted on somebody […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Ben Sheets, Johan Santana, John Smoltz, Jon Garland, Mo Vaughn, Orel Hershiser |
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