 
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 their 131st game, the 2024 New York Mets accomplished something Sunday they hadn’t managed to do after their previous 130: they posted their first Unique Record of the year. With their loss to the Padres, they appear in the standings at 68-63. No Mets team has ever been 68-63 after 131 games. I can’t say […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  George H.W. Bush, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Leon Russell, Mark Vientos, Padres, Team History, The Simpsons, Unique Records, WCBS, White Sox Sunday afternoon’s Met affair amounted to an absolutely aggravating abomination of a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the fucking Marlins, the victors’ most accurate appellation. How absolutely aggravating was this game that started at 12:05 PM, itself aggravating? Let me count some of the ways. Mark Vientos should have scored in the first, but was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Anthony Recker, Billy Joel, Roku, Team History, The Odd Couple The Chicago White Sox ended their 21-game losing streak Tuesday night, preventing them from owning outright the worst skid in American League history and momentarily pausing their pursuit of hallowed infamy that for 62 years has belonged to us. But as players and managers usually say following a loss rather than a win, it was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Brendan Rodgers, Colt .45s, Colt Stadium, Coors Field, Curfews, Dick Young, Futility, Harrison Bader, Jimmy Breslin, Kris Bryant, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Marv Throneberry, Rain Delays, Team History, Ties, Tigers, Torn Dugout Netting, White Sox Mets pitching on Wednesday was not a strong suit, an observation easily borne out by the 8-3 pounding the Minnesota Twins pasted on the staff as an up-and-down homestand concluded with a harsh thud, hardly providing an auspicious prelude to the pending Road Trip From Hell. Luis Severino (3 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 6 […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alphabetical Order, David Aardsma, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Huascar Brazoban, Jack Benny, Matt Gage, Obsessions to Stay Awake For, Team History, Tyler Zuber Congratulations to the New York Mets of July 5, 2024, for doing something no Mets team had ever done before in a blowout loss so bad that a position player had to pitch. On Friday night, the Mets, whose last call to the visitors’ bullpen at PNC Park would summon catcher Luis Torrens, actually stayed […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Backloaded Blowout Losses, Bill Pecota, Bryan Reynolds, Grand Slams, Home Runs, Jake Diekman, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Paul Skenes, Pirates, Position Players Pitching, Rowdy Tellez, Steven Matz, Team History, Ty Adcock Some wins you’ve got to have. You traverse an ocean and lose the first of two scheduled high-profile games, you’ve got to come home with the second contest in your carry-on. You catapult ahead from what the odds termed prohibitively behind, you’ve got to remain ahead until the end. You’ve got this reputation for inevitably […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Defensive Walkoff Wins, Drew Smith, London Series, Luis Torrens, Mets Third Basemen, Phillies, Self-Esteem, Soccer, Team History, Time of Day By some stroke of coincidence, the Mets have visited Atlanta on the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries of Hank Aaron’s 715th career home run, which is swell, because what decent baseball fan doesn’t adore and revere the legacy of Hank Aaron? The Mets have to play the Braves at some point of every season. Might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2004 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Cole Sulser, Comebacks, Dan Wheeler, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Hank Aaron, Harry Parker, Jake Diekman, John Milner, Jorge Lopez, Julio Teheran, Reed Garrett, Scott Erickson, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays Care for an omen? The Mets lost their last game of the season in 1968, a home game. They then lost their first game of the season in 1969, also a home game. That particular unpromising strand of homestanding Closing Day/Opening Day synergy hadn’t transpired again until they lost, 9-1, at home last October 1 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Ojeda, Brewers, Buttleyness, Drew Smith, Freddy Peralta, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Lopez, Jose Quintana, Ken MacKenzie, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Omens, One-Hitters, Rhys Hoskins, Starling Marte, Team History Connoisseurs of the Academy Awards’ In Memoriam montage — the inspiration behind Faith and Fear’s annual salute to the I don’t observe Christmas in the ecclesiastical sense, but I’ve watched a lot of Christmas episodes of sitcoms, both live-action and animated, so I understand assisting Santa Claus when asked is necessarily a good thing. Every year around this time, I hear that a reindeer with a nose visible in fog went down in history […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Benny Agbayani, Christmas Eve, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doug Sisk, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Gentry, Mark Bomback, Rick Aguilera, Rico Brogna, Ron Swoboda, Rookie of the Year, Seth Lugo, Team History, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Yoshinobu Yamamoto |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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