 
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. |
Dee Gordon was hit by a pitch to lead off the top of the fifth inning Friday night. Then he stole second. One out later, he dashed to third on a ground ball in front of him. Dee Gordon did three very Dee Gordon things to the Mets as Dee Gordon will. So Gordon was on […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2011 Mets, Brad Ziegler, Comebacks, Dee Gordon, Fernando Salas, Giancarlo Stanton, Ideal Saves, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Barraclough, Milestones, Rafael Montero, T.J. Rivera, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores Terry Collins could have removed Rafael Montero at several junctures of his outing against the Washington Nationals Monday night, which speaks to what seems to be Terry’s managing philosophy: a preference to do nothing versus an inclination to do something. Montero wasn’t in the game very long by conventional measures (though it felt like hours). When […] 66 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gabriel Ynoa, Managing, Nothing, Rafael Montero, Something, Terry Collins Meet the Mets. Meet the Mets. Step right up and meet these Mets. These Mets who we didn’t quite know not very long ago, but who are presently playing their way into our hearts and imprinting themselves on our brains. Meet Seth Lugo. He’s our new somewhere from No. 1 to No. 4 starter. It doesn’t […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Getting Acquainted, Jose Reyes, Rafael Montero, Seth Lugo OK, that was fun. If Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman represented Plan F and G, or some letter fairly far along in the stack, what letter was reserved for Rafael Montero? Montero hadn’t started a game since last April and had done nothing since then to make any member of the Mets brass think well of him. He spent […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Home Runs, Jose Fernandez, Jose Reyes, Kelly Johnson, Nick Wittgren, Rafael Montero, Walkoffs, Yoenis Cespedes I missed the first Met home run of Tuesday night while I was consumed by the culinary arts. I missed the second Met home run of Tuesday night because I was standing in line waiting to partake of the democratic process. Don’t worry, the Mets said — we’ll make more. And I approve that message. If you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Home Runs, Juan Lagares, Logan Verrett, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Best, Rafael Montero, The Beatles, Yoenis Cespedes Super-exciting spine-tingling headline-grabbing narrative-changing straight-to-the-SportsCenter-open wins are great, of course. But the key to playing in October is racking up the more mundane sort of victories. Which is exactly what the Mets did Tuesday night. Of course, only by recent pinch-me standards could the Mets’ 5-1 dispatching of the Marlins be considered dull. Jon Niese pitched […] 63 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric O'Flaherty, Jon Niese, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made physical errors, followed by multiple members of the team making mental errors. Those weren’t the fun parts. But these parts were pretty neat: back-to-back home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, David Wright, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Phil Gosselin, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores “Bobby Knight told me this, ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words, a good offense wins.” Pitching and defense are splendid, except when they’re deployed against you. Jordan Zimmermann and three National relievers outpitched Jacob deGrom and Rafael […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jordan Zimmermann, Lineups, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryan Zimmerman Dare to dream headlines: Murph’s 200th Hit Caps #Mets‘ Miracle Run to Wild Card. — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) September 10, 2014 Ha ha. Yeah. That isn’t going to happen, though it was fun to tweet. No, it really isn’t. Stop that. The problem is the Mets, despite being a daunting but not completely unimaginable 5 1/2 games out of […] For 90 seconds or so, there was joy in Metville. We’d punished the Cubs for removing Jake Arrieta, whose curveball had jelly-legged Met knees and kicked out Met fannies and turned Met bats into fan blades throughout another insanely beautiful August afternoon. We’d reminded ourselves that we do too like Curtis Granderson, who broke a seemingly centuries-long […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Jake Arrieta, Joan Payson, Matt Szczur, Rafael Montero |
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