 
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. |
Back in May I wondered what it would feel like when the number of Jose Reyes Mets highlights remaining were reduced to zero. Now we know. It sucks. Jose Reyes is no longer a Met. That’s awful enough right there, but of course it’s worse. Jose Reyes is a Miami Marlin. Eighteen times a year, starting in late […]  27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Disappointment, Fans, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons “When I’m finished, I’ll get the best seat to see him play. I’ll pay whatever price to see him play.” Somewhere in the midst of the conference call Sandy Alderson held with some of us bloggers last Thursday night, the Mets’ general manager used an unremarkable phrase that caught […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Farewells, Fun, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson, Violation of Trust Funny, Frankie Rodriguez gets traded and I keep thinking about Omar Minaya. And not entirely in a negative way, either. In thinking about the confounding yet entertaining 2011 Mets, you can’t miss that a number of the team’s more encouraging success stories — Jonathon Niese, Daniel Murphy, R.A. Dickey, Dillon Gee, Justin Turner and Ruben Tejada — […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Frankie Rodriguez, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. That’s Don DeLillo, in the great novel White Noise — and a quote that was uncomfortably top of mind as I watched the Mets make outs and drop balls and get whacked around by the Texas Rangers’ […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Hope, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson The little black cloud narrative of Mets fandom has been overdone in recent years — our team was one good swing away from the World Series in 2006 and played highly meaningful games on the last day of the season in 2007 and 2008, which the good people of Pittsburgh and Kansas City would take […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Francisco Rodriguez, Jason Isringhausen, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson And like the song said, what it is ain’t exactly clear. But whatever it is, I know I don’t like it. I’m not referring to the Mets stumbling around the field, approaching at-bats like puppies lunging for a chew toy, and otherwise making the Astros look like world-beaters in every way possible. Though I didn’t like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Fear, Impatience, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons The Times’ baseball preview brought along a column by George Vecsey that couldn’t have been better calibrated to infuriate Mets fans. Vecsey writes that we are conditioned to accept a magical season every generation or so, but know nothing of the sort is in the cards for 2011. “Absolutely not this year,” as he adds for […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, George Vecsey, Hope, Media Criticism, Sandy Alderson Was on another Mets-arranged blogger conference call with Sandy Alderson tonight. Of course those are splendid opportunities for the likes of we who write about the Mets yet traditionally haven’t been considered Mets writers. Downside is you’re on the phone with 15, 20 other bloggers. They’re not downers by any means — to the contrary, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Port St. Lucie, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training Back in mid-February, we all pretty much knew Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez were going to be released. Which, come mid-March, led some of us to wonder what the heck was taking so long — and to start concocting the usual woe-is-me Mets fan scenarios. The Wilpons won’t allow Sandy to eat those contracts. Slappy […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Front Office, Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez, Sandy Alderson A few weeks ago today was a new entry on my Google Calendar: 2/26 Mets WPIX 1p. A couple of days ago I saw it waiting there, suddenly not so far away. Thursday night, as plans unfolded for the weekend, I raised it as an item in the mix. And then today, there I was coming […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Bud Selig, Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Sandy Alderson |
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