 
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. |
The Mets took a lead, held a lead and only made you think it possible, not probable, that they would blow the lead. Progress! A good win for the Mets over the Yankees at Citi Field Saturday night. A good win beats any kind of loss, though I have to say in the fourteenth season of […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, Al Leiter, Armando Benitez, Beauty, Benny Agbayani, Bobby Valentine, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frankie Rodriguez, Jason Bay, Jenrry Mejia, John Franco, Joy, Mike Piazza, Pain, Rationalization, Rick Reed, Subway Series, Team History, Timo Perez, Turk Wendell, WFAN That was a brutal way to lose a baseball game. I’m referring to Wednesday afternoon against Roger Bernadina and the Nationals, though I could be referring to Monday night against the Nationals, Sunday afternoon against the Giants, last Wednesday against the Reds or last Monday against the Reds. Actually, the same could apply to the […] Update: Here’s this story revisited for NPR. Near the end of winter my neighbor’s younger brother died unexpectedly. Emily and I are friendly with our neighbor, and offered him our condolences. But we don’t really know each other, for all the usual city reasons that you regret on one level but mostly look past while you’re […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bill Dillman, Moment of Silence, Team History, The Holy Books “This is Country Time lemonade mix. There’s never been anything close to a lemon in it, I swear!” Upset that the Mets don’t have a plan? Please. The Mets have never had anything close to a plan in them. I swear. It would be too easy to say “plan” is a […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, Aaron Cook, Abraham Nunez, Angel Pagan, Brady Clark, Brandon Knight, Chris Aguila, Chris Ianetta, Damion Easley, Dexter Fowler, Died A Met, Fernando Nieve, Gustavo Molina, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, John Maine, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Matt Wise, Mike Jacobs, Moises Alou, Pedro Feliciano, Raul Casanova, Raul Valdes, Ricardo Rincon, Ricky Gervais, Rockies, Rod Barajas, Ryota Igarashi, Team History, Tony Armas Jr., Trot Nixon Say — or should I say hey — you know who was a really good baseball player? Willie Mays. You probably knew that already, but you’ll really know it if you read Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch. You’ll know a ton by the time you float through its 560 pages of text. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Citi Field, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, James Hirsch, Joan Payson, New York Giants, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays After Sean Green — who elicited the first visceral couch-to-TV reaction of 2010: “Get Sean Green the fuck off my team!” — gave up the laser shot home run to Dan Uggla in the seventh, building the Marlin lead to 6-1, I filed Tuesday night’s game in that one third you’re going to lose, per […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2006 Mets, Brian Giles, Fernando Tatis, First Loss of the Season After a Win, Gary Sheffield, Hisanori Takahashi, Jenrry Mejia, John Maine, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Sean Green, Team History I have seen the past, and its name is the Mets Hall of Fame & Museum. To all who thought the Mets loathed their own history, their self-hatred has come to a merciful end. To all who thought the Mets didn’t listen to their customers, their hearing tests came back with belated flying colors. To all […] I wish I could remember the young man’s name. I remember his age, 15. I met him last summer on an Amazin’ Tuesday at Two Boots. Big Mets fan, big fan of the blog, he said. Within a few minutes of introducing himself, he was excitedly explaining to me why the Mets would be in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Laxton, Billy Baldwin, Carlos Gomez, Craig Swan, Dwight Gooden, Fernando Martinez, Fernando Nieve, Ike Davis, Jeff Bittiger, Jenrry Mejia, Joe Smith, Jon Heyman, Jon Niese, Lastings Milledge, Mickey Lolich, Mike Jacobs, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Vail, Neil Allen, Nelson Figueroa, Prospects, RIck Ownbey, Roy Staiger, Ruben Tejada, Scott Holman, Sergio Ferrer, Team History, Tim Leary It seems Kiko Calero and I shared a stadium twice last season, two games in late May when he pitched and I watched, yet I must confess I have zero recollection of him. It was too late in the action to be up and cruising for Daruma, hence all I can think is I was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, April And Out Mets, Bart Shirley, Bobby Gene Smith, Brady Clark, Brett Hinchliffe, Brian Rose, Bruce Chen, Casey Fossum, Chan Ho Park, Choo Choo Coleman, Clem Labine, Coco Lopez, Darren O'Day, Dennis Springer, Ed Lynch, Felix Heredia, Gary Matthews, Grant Roberts, Gustavo Molina, Herb Moford, Joe Ginsberg, Jonathan Hurst, Ken Henderson, Kevin Elster, Kiko Calero, Larry Burright, Lou Thornton, Luis Alvarado, Mac Scarce, Marlon Anderson, McKay Christensen, Mike Bishop, Mike Howard, Mike Matthews, Pete Schourek, Pete Walker, Ralph Terry, Ray Sadecki, Rich Chiles, Rick Sweet, Team History, Tim Foli, Victor Diaz The Mets, it was established when they were established, represented the New Breed. Their fans were descended from a tradition of Giants and Dodgers, but they — we — were something else altogether. We were not the past. We were the present and, by implication, the future. We were the stuff of 1962 when 1962 […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Charlie Neal, Choo Choo Coleman, George Altman, Hope, Moment of Silence, Negro League Mets, Sammy Drake, Team History, Willie Mays |
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