Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver Welcome to the sixth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Rodriguez, Frankie Rodriguez, Josh Thole, Juan Uribe, Kelly Johnson, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mets of the 2010s, Mike Baxter, Pedro Feliciano, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier With his third home run Tuesday night, Robinson Cano assured himself of qualifying into perpetuity for a conversation that isn’t about disappointing veteran acquisitions that cost us the potential inherent in promising youth. For an evening, our new pal Robbie didn’t need to be lumped in with every wayward American League expatriate from Joe Foy […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acquisitions of Infamy, Joe Foy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Robinson Cano, Team History, Three Homer Club “Dinner’s waiting, hon’.”
If it wasn’t exactly déjà vu all over again, I was nonetheless struck, well before its outcome became obvious, by a near-certainty Saturday that the game I was watching was not going to be won by the Mets. This was before thousands of miles worth of home runs were blasted by Brewer batters off of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Bad Met Backs, Brewers, Bull Durham, Chris Carter (Not the 2010 Met), Curtis Granderson, Destiny, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Logan Verrett, Miller Park, Neil Walker, Pattern, Precedent, Randomness, Ryan Braun, Scooter Gennett My pal Will likes to strip away the sepia Valhalla folderol around baseball and replace it with a simple rule: “When my team wins, I am happy, and when they lose, I am sad.” Pretty much. But there are degrees of happy and sad. There’s the sad of losing a ho-hum game in August when you’re a dozen games […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Comebacks, Drew Storen, Joy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Matt Williams, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes I’ve never understood the concept behind the phrase, “…and in twenty years, a hundred-thousand people are going to claim they were at this game.” Why, I’ve wondered, would anyone say he personally eyewitnessed an event he didn’t see for himself? What’s the payoff in that? Perhaps the status of proximity to history carried more cachet […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Bobby Higginson, Dave Kingman, Jennry Mejia, Jerry Seinfeld, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Recidivist Mets, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Todd Hundley In another century, you could easily discern the difference between frontline and rear-echelon Mets. The starters were the starters and the bench guys were held in reserve until needed. When one of the bench guys got in the lineup, it usually meant a regular was aching or slumping or simply needed a blow. It was […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Bambi's Bandits, Bob Bailor, Bruce Bochy, Chris Heston, Joel Youngblood, Johnny Monell, Jon Niese, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Michael Cuddyer, Mike Jorgensen, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Sergio Romo And then I fell in love Then one day And when I didn’t 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Champions, Dillon Gee, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Peggy Lee, Rico Brogna, Stephen Stills, Tom Seaver I’d like to teach the Mets to score with regularity. I’d like for them to cross the plate and do it constantly. Or at least while Matt Harvey is on the mound. Monday night the Mets did eventually find a second run to keep the one they’d rustled up ten innings earlier company. By then, they and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darrell Ceciliani, John Mayberry Jr., Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lack of Offense, Mad Men, Matt Harvey |
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