 
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 went 615 miles to see the Mets and they didn’t look any better than they do at home. More like the Mehs. Meet the Mehs, meet the Mehs A few months ago Emily and I decided on an August ballpark tour: fly to Cleveland and see a game, drive to Detroit for a […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Comerica Park, Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Tigers Maybe I was just in a good mood. Emily and I were supposed to be back Monday night — Portland, Me., is an easy 45 minutes or so away by plane. But Monday night’s rainout also scratched our plane, shifting us to a 5:30 am departure Tuesday. Ugh … and then they cancelled that one too, telling […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Martinez, Doubleheaders, Jedd Gyorko, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Teufel, Tommy Pham, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Sometimes you look at the screen and you know you’re doomed. Then you look at the tiny score bug in the corner of the screen and realize you’re not. You’re losing in all facets of the game, especially on the scoreboard, but it hits you after a while that the game is neither over nor […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Counterintuitive Wins, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, The Flintstones, The Odd Couple You probably didn’t need this reminder, but here it is anyway: baseball will make you look dumb. Like maybe in the afterglow of Thursday night’s thrilling comeback against the Nats (deliciously complete with hirsute heel Jayson Werth shooting his own team in the collective foot) you found yourself thinking that it was really too bad the Mets […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes Let’s see, what did I do with that piece I wrote about the Mets’ Monday night 11-4 loss to Washington? It had everything in it: how they led 4-0 in the middle of the third inning; how they probably could have led by more; how Brandon Nimmo recorded the first hits of his major league […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Elbow Spurs, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Stolen Bases It came at the end of Terry Collins‘s press conference, and might have been funny except for the fact that it wasn’t funny: the small manager with the large personality tried to exit stage left, then had a brief, unhappy colloquy with someone not shown by SNY’s cameras. Collins objected that there hadn’t been any […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Cheslor Cuthbert, Injuries, Matt Reynolds, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, Royals, Whit Merrifield You know you’re having a good night when you can get picky over what kind of mammoth win you’d like your team to post. For those of us who remained to the bottom of the ninth inning at Citi Field Wednesday night of an obviously settled affair — and why would you leave when your […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citi Field, Complete Games, Gunnison sage-grouse, Howard Johnson, Johan Santana, John Valentin, Jon Niese, Kelly Johnson, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, Miguel Batista, Nelson Figueroa, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Rene Rivera, Thor-Hitter, Wilmer Flores The nearly 150-year-old “national pastime,” as baseball continues to bill itself despite indications of declining popularity relative to other sporting endeavors, still has some surprises lurking in its venerable bones, none more unpredictable than those the New York Mets unveiled to a largely disapproving audience at PNC Park Wednesday night. The cast of the New York Mets […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jameson Taillon, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins, Theatrical Performances, Ty Kelly, Wilmer Flores It’s gonna be another summer without David Wright. Six to eight weeks of rest, and then they’ll see. If you’re like me, you may have had an odd reaction to the news — a weird argument between head and heart. Head sniffed that a .226 average, bushels of strikeouts and throwing woes at third didn’t seem impossible to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Wilmer Flores Long night, short turnaround. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off, shall we? In the bottom of the fifth, Steven Matz did something strange: he got his helmet and bat and headed for the on-deck circle, apparently all-business. Which was fine, except his spot in the order wasn’t up — it was several batters away. He wasn’t even close. Matz […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Tyler Saladino |
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