 
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. |
After two nights of at least looking competitive against the Dodgers, AKA the quarter-billion-dollar baseball death machine, the Mets got macerated. Lacerated. Defenestrated. Eviscerated. Whatever word you choose, it wasn’t pretty. They were out of it essentially from the jump, as Carlos Carrasco showed he’s still working his way back into regular-season form — a plan […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Drury, Carlos Carrasco, Dodgers, Farce, Kevin Pillar, Luis Rojas, Position Players Pitching, Reality I applaud the Mets’ continual affirmations of confidence. You Gotta Believe should extend to belief in oneself. But after watching the Mets’ wisp-thin playoff eligibility expire in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in Washington — and having their status confirmed in a less competitive loss in the nightcap — I’m having trouble abiding by […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Mathematically Eliminated, Matthew Broderick, Pete Alonso, Reality, Rick Porcello The Mets and Marlins didn’t play Thursday night. After some milling around in front of both dugouts, the Mets ran out to their positions, led by Dominic Smith and Billy Hamilton. Miami’s Lewis Brinson stepped to the plate. Caps came off. The other players on both teams came out of the dugouts to stand in a […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brodie Van Wagenen, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Lewis Brinson, Marlins, Mets, Miguel Rojas, Not Sticking to Sports, Politics, Reality, Rob Manfred, SNY, Steve Gelbs It was a rally or as close to a rally as the 2018 Mets could have conjured in the first week of June 2018. Wednesday afternoon against the Orioles, Todd Frazier singled to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Recently returned from a hamstring injury and […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Reality, Roger Angell, Willie Mays Well now. The Mets, baseball’s worst second-place, currently-qualified-for-postseason-play team, won a game that was alternately exasperating, entertaining, frightening, amusing, and mostly befuddling. If you missed it, Steven Matz cruised through four innings, facing the minimum and watching as the Mets put up an eight-spot against punching bag Aaron Blair. At which point everything — no really, everything — […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, James Loney, Jose Reyes, Reality, Second Chances, Steven Matz “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing once more in frustrating fashion and falling a little further away from first place in the National League East, a perch nobody…nobody…envisioned […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Chris Schwinden, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Reality, Rockheads, Ruben Tejada Tonight’s lineup: Jose Reyes – SS No Carlos Beltran, as he is about to be gone for real, to San Francisco by all reports, in exchange for someone we hope will make us […] Saturday’s was the first game of 2011 to leave me in Angry Bird/flipping bird mode when it was done, which seems awfully late considering much of this season’s first month was pockmarked by ugly Met losses. There were isolated incidences of ire through April, but they were usually situational, such as “how the fuck did […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fox, Frustration, Jon Niese, Phillies, Reality, Roy Halladay, WFAN Some Mets I can’t wait to see go. Roberto Alomar in 2003, T#m Gl@v!ne in 2007, Luis Castillo from June 12, 2009 to last Friday…those departures represented addition in my soul via subtraction from the squad. I didn’t much want to pull for them as Mets and I was eventually delivered from that basic responsibility […] Thursday night, the Mets won a baseball game, which is a result any Mets fan welcomes. And I indeed welcome it. (“Hi win, good to see you. I’d almost forgotten what one of you looks like.”) But I have to admit, in one of those “bad fan” episodes to which Jason occasionally cops, I’m not […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2010 Mets, Inevitability, Peace, Reality |
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