 
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. |
Crazy how the baseball schedule sometimes does this: On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2012, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2007, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The circumstances surrounding the respective one-run losses that […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2007 Mets, Billy Wagner, Charlie Manuel, Coincidental Scheduling, Jimmy Rollins, Jon Niese, Kevin Frandsen, Kyle Kendrick, Lingering Dismay, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Scott Hairston, Ty Wigginton Strange world we live in when the Mets game on what we used to call “free TV” isn’t readily available via the service millions pay for because…well, ya got me. Two corporations are in the middle of a pissing match and it’s the loyal customers who get spritzed. So what else is new? When I […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corporate Nonsense, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Mike Baxter, Radio Let’s get the part that made me mad out of the way: In the bottom of the first, Mike Baxter came to the plate for his first Citi Field at-bat since he was helped off the field on the night of June 1, after the amazing sprawling catch that preserved Johan Santana’s no-hit bid. In […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Citi Field, Food, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Baxter This time I saw it coming — a brutal regression to the mean in the second half of what had been a heartening season. Funny thing is, it didn’t make any difference. Once again I went to kick the football of postseason hopes, and once again the Mets pulled it out of the way, and once again […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Fans, Jeremy Hefner, Mike Baxter, Ruben Tejada When it was all finally over and the Mets convened at the mound for a rather muted celebration, Manny Acosta kind of rolled his eyes up at the sky and spread his hands in equal parts thanks and exasperation. It was an entirely appropriate response to his own pitching — in the 10th he walked […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin, Manny Acosta, Mike Baxter, Scott Hairston The poor Orioles are getting killed at Citi Field, and they don’t have a clue. Yesterday it was R.A. Dickey, armed with a knuckleball that was for all intents and purposes unhittable, one he used to write the latest chapter of his remarkable story. Greg chronicled R.A.’s second straight one-hitter here yesterday; today Roger Angell — our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, No-Hitters, PItching, R.A. Dickey I sensed trouble from the start. I’m not sure why I did — the ball Neil Walker hit to begin the bottom of the Pirates’ eighth wasn’t going out and wasn’t parachuting in. It was ticketed for short of the warning track, a quick trot at worst for either the left fielder or the center fielder. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, Pirates, PNC Park Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption John Axford, the Brewers’ closer who looks enough like George Custer that he could spend the offseason taking part in re-enactments at Little Big Horn, recently blew a save and had to depart before facing to the media. So left behind an apologetic and rather charming note, one that ended with “Cliché… cliché… cliché… another cliché. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, David Wright, Fans, Mike Baxter, Talk Radio, Terry Collins Spiritual predecessors of your 2012 Mets? Listening to Terry Collins in his postgame media sessions makes me think he is the model for a dozen “manager” characters from a dozen underwhelming baseball movies: focused, straightforward, likes fine what he does for a living, only dabbles in nuance if so compelled by reporter’s interrogation. But watching […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad News Bears, David Wright, Marlins Park, Mike Baxter, R.A. Dickey, Terry Collins, Walter Matthau |
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