 
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’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […]  24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we scale Mount Acemore. Bigger than big Stephen Sondheim, in his A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aces, FAFIF Turns Ten, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Pedro Martinez, R.A. Dickey I’m a strict constructionist when it comes to the two seasons: baseball and off. If it’s not baseball season, then something’s off. It’s why, when I calculate the Baseball Equinox every December, the end point I plot for our long winter’s journey across the sunless sky is the first pitch of the first game of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Matt Harvey, Spring Training, Wayne Randazzo, Winter's Departure You know that feeling of serene confidence you get as a Mets fan when they give their pitcher an early lead? Probably not, but it’s been known to exist. It existed for me Tuesday night. I was as surprised as anybody that it did. In the second, Mariner center fielder James Jones’s eyes proved bigger than […] Zack Wheeler will be 24 years old on May 30. This is easy to forget, but we’d do well to remember it. He’s a work in progress. Wheeler lost today against the Nationals, victimized by Wilson Ramos, dimwitted baserunning by his teammates, Ian Desmond and his own command. There’s no particular shame in falling prey to […] The infrastructure of a baseball season encompasses a surfeit of components that don’t show up in the box score, including intramural dustups in March that dissolve into the murkiest of memories by May. They are as much part of the National Pastime landscape as the crack of the bat, the flight of the ball, the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Martino, Eric Campbell, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Injuries, Ira Berkow, Matt Harvey, Media Criticism, Spring Training Not so long ago, three ships passed in the Met night. We probably didn’t grasp the transient nature of what was transpiring right in front of us because we didn’t know their night sharing the same waters would be over so soon. On August 9, 2012, R.A. Dickey threw a complete-game, ten-strikeout five-hitter to defeat the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, R.A. Dickey, Team History, Zack Wheeler Past Here’s a sign of spring: The 2014 Topps cards are out. Let’s not go overboard: This isn’t the greatest set. The photography’s good again, but Topps has developed an unfortunate predilection for novelty shots, with far too many players romping with teammates (and often on dreaded horizontal cards), getting doused with Gatorade or showing off Oscar […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Hope, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Drew, The Holy Books, Trades, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler I clearly remember Bob Murphy opening the broadcast of September 27, 1998, from Atlanta by expressing his conviction that “there are days in your life…and this is one of them.” Made all the sense in the world to me. Too bad the Mets didn’t receive his message. They went out on that most urgent of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Harvey Day, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year The Sunday after the All-Star break at Citi Field was one of those afternoons when All Is As It Should Be. Matt Harvey was punishing the Phillies. A Dwight Gooden bobblehead was nestled inside my schlep bag. What we used to call DiamondVision found a moment between highlighting Harvey strikeouts to feature the de facto […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Dwight Gooden, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Legend-In-Residence, Matt Harvey |
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