Growing up in the 1970s in New York, where college football showed up in the papers just enough to provide context for gambling lines, I maintained scant awareness of the sport, save for maybe the bowl games played on New Year’s Day. It was therefore a culture shock to me when I arrived at my […]
 
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. |
 17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Postseason, Football, National League Champions, Omens, Phillies, Season Series vs. the Mets, Team History I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. But here we are, four days […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Billy Joel, Brad Hand, Don Buddin, Noah Syndergaard, pH Factor, Phantom Pain, Phillies, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler The Phillies and the Padres fought the instinct to kick me out of bed this morning, which I appreciate. Strange as it is, they became my bedfellows on Saturday, the day I resumed an ability to watch baseball and not hate everything about it. Postseason will make people otherwise at odds find common cause. Our cause […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Padres, Phillies, Spite, Strange Bedfellows, Strange Metfellows Most of the time you don’t know. Sometimes you know just enough. Sunday I didn’t definitively know if the Mets were dead and buried at 4-0 after one; were alive and well at 4-4 in the middle of the fourth; had dirt kicked on them at 7-4 at the end of four; had sprung back […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 2022 Mets, Alec Bohm, Bob Murphy, Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Damn Things, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Jose Butto, Mark Canha, Michael Perez, Nate Fisher, Phillies, Six Feet Under, Starling Marte, Team History, Trevor May In Game 1 of Saturday’s doubleheader against the Phillies, the Mets’ 2022 formula worked to perfection: grind out at-bats, drive up pitch counts, exploit weaknesses and strike. Brandon Nimmo led off with a walk against old chum Zack Wheeler, who threw 17 pitches in the first and 20 in the second, unscored upon but with his […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Bailey Falter, Brett Baty, Darick Hall, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Ghosts, Gosuke Katoh, J.T. Realmuto, Jeff McNeil, Kramer Robertson, Kyle Schwarber, Michael Perez, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, R.J. Alvarez, Rob Zastryzny, Sam Clay, Trevor Williams, Yolmer Sanchez, Zack Wheeler OK, lemme see if I got all this. You want the pair of Slugger Milestones — the 100th RBI and the 30th homer, wrap them separately. Yeah, those’ll stay cold. They’re Polar. You want the Speedy Duo with the Double Steal, the back half being the steal of home. You got it. We keep that on […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joely Rodriguez, Keith Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Pinch-Running, Regional Cuisine, Starling Marte, Stealing Home, Trevor May, Tyler Naquin This is the stretch that will send the Mets down one of two postseason roads: a newfangled bye that advances them to the division series, or a dogfight in the scrum of the wild-card round. Three with the Phillies, four with the Braves, four more with the Phillies, two with the Yankees. Well, so far so […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Keith Hernandez, Luis Guillorme, Phillies, Starting Pitching, Zack Wheeler Let’s get this part out of the way: I was in the front of the Promenade a fair distance down the first-base line. So I can’t tell you jack about Max Scherzer‘s stuff or location or exactly what happened to various Met defenders or anything else that relies on the nuance of an up-close view. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Daniel Vogelbach, David Robertson, Eduardo Escobar, Frustration, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Jeff McNeil, Keith Hernandez, Matt Vierling, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Phillies, Ranger Suarez, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido Well, well, well. That wasn’t what I thought for most of Thursday night’s game against the Phillies, but then that’s always the case with a classic comeback — you need to trudge through the vale of despond before getting sherpa’ed up Mount Probability to giddily plant the most unexpected of flags. That mountaineering metaphor’s less random than […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Gilkey, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Carl Everett, Comebacks, Corey Knebel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, Phillies, Starling Marte Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill |
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