 
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. |
In what I suppose one could say is a sign of relative normalcy, I’m disgusted by the Mets and want them to go away. No! Not really go away! But … well, sort of. Because I was so happy to have three hours of solace a night, and instead the last two nights the Mets have […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Christian Vazquez, Edwin Diaz, Jose Peraza, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Steven Matz For the past two nights, I haven’t had to think about what to watch on television. It was summer and the Mets were on. The viewing menu for any Mets fan in summer has been dependably predictable that way since 1962. Sub in radio for television if that’s how you roll. Score one for dependability, predictability […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Dom Smith, Fenway Park, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Pandemics, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Televised Content The saving grace of a season’s first loss, particularly if it follows the euphoria of a season’s first win, is its inevitability. It was gonna happen sooner or later. Get this unpleasant slice of reality over with since you know darn well you have to and move on. But don’t get it over with the […] Welcome to the tenth 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 […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, R.A. Dickey, Yoenis Cespedes In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] And so it ends. The Mets will not play October baseball. The last invitation to the dance belongs to the Milwaukee Brewers, who thoroughly deserved it — they lost an MVP candidate and somehow found a higher gear, steamrolling all competition in a magical September. Congratulations to them, and solace to our fellow eliminatees, the Chicago […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brewers, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mathematically Eliminated, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Tyler Heineman, Wild Card The Mets kept their heartbeat faint but detectable by beating the Reds on Sunday afternoon — a game I started listening to on the Tripper Bus back from D.C. and that ended with me standing in my living room in Brooklyn. (First comment: “I know they’re throwbacks, but the Reds really need to retire those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | BABIP, Brad Brach, Brandon Nimmo, Eugenio Suarez, J.D. Davis, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Reds, Wild Card Let me take you back a little ways, to a not-long-ago iteration of the National League wild-card chase. The Diamondbacks were destiny’s new darlings, winning night after night and all set up for a run at the postseason, with the easiest schedule of any of the remaining contenders. As for the Mets, they were dead and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Juan Lagares, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Wild Card 1) Thanks to the kindness of an old friend, Greg, Emily and I got to see batting practice from the edge of the field. Michael Conforto is David Wright-level kind, signing anything and everything, posing for pictures and being supernaturally patient even when it might not be called for. (If you’re a major-league player who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Beauty, Citi Field, Indians, J.D. Davis, Jeff Francoeur, Michael Conforto, Shane Bieber, Steven Matz FLUSHING (FAF) — The New York Mets did not come back to defeat the Washington Nationals, 7-6, Friday night, as Todd Frazier did not hit a game-tying, ninth-inning, three-run homer off Nationals closer Sean Doolittle, not setting up an immediate second rally that didn’t culminate in Michael Conforto driving home Juan Lagares with the winning […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brad Brach, Comebacks, Death of Incredulity, Drama, Frenzy, Joe Panik, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Todd Frazier, Walkoffs |
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