As Monday’s game and possibly the season it is a part of were getting definitively away from the Mets, I found myself particularly irked not so much by their comprehensive, soup-to-nuts on-field shoddiness but the deficiencies in their off-field communications. It’s bad enough they don’t play a good game, they’re also not up to the […]
 
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. |
 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Brodie Van Wagenen, Karma, Language, Mickey Callaway, Quotes My Met fandom is not an unbroken line from seeing my mom jumping up and down and cheering for Rusty Staub to now. Yes, my mom’s joy is my first Mets memory — and one of my earliest memories of anything — but in 1981 I lost the thread. That year my Topps cards are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fathers and Sons, Jeff McNeil, Mickey Callaway, Pablo Sandoval, Shaun Anderson, Todd Frazier Maybe Mickey Callaway took some cold medicine early in Tuesday night’s game. I took some cold medicine early in Tuesday night’s game and saw printed clearly on the back of the box, WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE PITCHING CHANGES. Really, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Draft, Madison Bumgarner, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Questionable Managerial Decisions, Robert Gsellman, Ron Darling, Seth Lugo, That Kumquat Tom Brady, Tom Brady Most of the Mets game I watched Saturday night was pretty good. Jacob deGrom was outstanding, looking more like Jake from 2018 than he has since he was making beautiful music in Miami in early April. Todd Frazier continued to bring the power despite being written off in multiple quarters as an irredeemable […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Chicklo, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Mountain Time Zone, Sleep, Tomas Nido, Waking Up to Bad Scores On the one hand, the Mets have made the lowly Detroit Tigers into world-beaters, opponents every bit as formidable as, say, the Miami Marlins. Can’t we just play the Nationals 162 times a year? On the other, both of these games have been a lot of fun, filled with twists and turns and chills and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Creative Managing, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Hector Santiago, JaCoby Jones, Jason Vargas, Managers, Mickey Callaway, Ryan Carpenter, Tigers, Tomas Nido, Wilson Ramos The Mets took the field Monday night having lost five in a row, three to the lowly Miami Marlins, and the portents were not good. Brodie Van Wagenen gave one of those sound-and-fury “full support for the manager” press conferences that make you even more convinced someone’s going to get fired; revealed the surprising, confounding […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Communications, Drew Gagnon, Mickey Callaway, Patrick Corbin, Robinson Cano, Wilmer Font You know the story of Scheherazade, right? The Persian Empire’s ruler, angry to discover his wife had been unfaithful, decided to safeguard what he regarded as his royal prerogative by taking a virgin bride each night, beheading her in the morning, and replacing her with a new spouse. One imagine he would have run out […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Managers, Mickey Callaway What you want as a fan is for your team to be its best self always. Of course you do. Win. Win 162 times and then eleven more times and then shower us in confetti. Be so best en route to the Canyon of Heroes that our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Best Selves, Carlos Gomez, Fun, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Marlins, Mickey Callaway, Not Fun, One-Hitters, Pablo Lopez, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano's nonsense, Steven Matz “Oh, what’s this? I wasn’t expecting anything!” 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blown Saves, Creative Managing, Drew Gagnon, Extra Innings, J.D. Davis, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Polite Responses, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier We know from starters, emergency starters, long relievers, middle men, lefty specialists, setup men and closers. In 2018, thanks mostly to the machinations of the Tampa Bay Rays, we were introduced to something called the opener. Jason Vargas filled none of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Barking Elbows, Cardinals, Chris Flexen, Edwin Diaz, Injured List, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Yadier Molina |
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