There’s an old joke about an inveterate optimist and a pile of horse manure, the punch line of which is, “There’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere.” And indeed, you’d think that after the last 18 innings of steaming, redolent folderol in Atlanta, the least the Mets would be able to pull out of […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, C.B. Bucknor, Dale Scott, Fox, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, R.A. Dickey, Tim Byrdak, Turner Field Games like these make you want to kiss the Mets logo smack between the “e” and the “t”…though maybe it would be more appropriate to kiss its “s,” considering it was Thursday’s tail end that made the whole thing so lovable. There were enough isolated incidents across the 8½ innings that preceded this happiest of endings […] It’s not a good sign when you miss nearly all of the Subway Series, then are relieved that your team has an off-day. I was at my 25th high-school reunion over the weekend, and so the Debacle in the Bronx was reduced to occasional bleary, baleful glowers at my phone, with the exception of a couple […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jordany Valdespin, Keith Hernandez, Tropicana Field “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing once more in frustrating fashion and falling a little further away from first place in the National League East, a perch nobody…nobody…envisioned […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Chris Schwinden, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Reality, Rockheads, Ruben Tejada This just in: Bud Selig has declared first place in the National League East vacant, pending location of a geographically suitable team that can play three hours of anything resembling baseball. That description suited the Nationals somewhat more than it did the Mets, as the two clubs bashed away at each other spastically, exchanging errors and […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Debacles, Elvin Ramirez, Horribleness, Jordany Valdespin, Omar Quintanilla, Ruben Tejada To understand that headline, go back a day and read my partner’s rather awesome post about Monday night’s instant Mets Classic. Monday night’s game — forever to be recalled fondly, except in the Papelbon household, as the Jordany Valdespin Game — was a tense, taut affair, about as beautiful as a baseball game can be. Confronted […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Joe Blanton, Jordany Valdespin, Miguel Batista, Pete Orr, Phillies, Ramon Ramirez But, Marge, that little guy hasn’t done anything yet. Look at him. He’s going to do something and you know it’s going to be good. Mets fans of a certain age…essentially my age…have been giving themselves over to repeated cases of the goose bumps for the last couple of […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Channel 9, Jon Niese, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Marlon Anderson, Mike Nickeas, Roy Halladay, Shane Victorino, Ty Wigginton Somehow, I imagined that seeing my favorite team play a doubleheader that included two big-league debuts and began with David Wright poised to claim the club record for RBIs would be more fun. After 10 days far from home, the idea of my own couch and the Mets on my own TV was pretty close to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Giants, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jordany Valdespin, Sean Ratliff, The Holy Books, Tim Lincecum Chico Walker, Charlie Neal, Tom Veryzer, Rod Kanehl Kelvin Chapman, Billy Cowan, Bobby Klaus, Billy Almon During the 1996 presidential election campaign, Richard Ben Cramer, who had written about Bob Dole with incredible depth and sensitivity, was asked to characterize the Republican nominee’s policy agenda if […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Chin-lung Hu, Daniel Murphy, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Luis Castillo, Luis Hernandez, Reese Havens, Ruben Tejada, Second Base, Willie Harris |
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