 
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. |
I mean, what else could you call it? The Mets’ most lovable misfit toy, who’s 25 years old chronologically but about 700 in Mets-drama years, was repeatedly front and center in this one … in good ways and bad. Wilmer Flores collected three hits, all off the righties he’s not supposed to hit, the last of which […]  49 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Eduardo Nunez, Jeurys Familia, Justin Ruggiano, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores 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 Despite what you might think, and what’s popularly held to be our birthright, the Mets do not actually spend every day under a little black cloud. It’s always useful to think of a conflict from the other guy’s perspective — besides making you a better person, you might learn something. So consider Saturday’s game from the […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Storytelling, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler Justice Potter Stewart, who slipped his colleague Harry Blackmun the 1973 equivalent of a Breaking News text alert while the United States Supreme Court and National League Championship Series were simultaneously in session — “V.P. Agnew just resigned!! Mets 2 Reds 0” — is probably best remembered for his concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Baseball Porn, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Potter Stewart, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud It would have been nice had somebody gotten three outs without giving up three runs in the eighth inning of a Jackie Robinson Night celebration that rapidly deteriorated into, as a Twitter correspondent of mine so aptly put it, the Bummer of 42. Jacob deGrom…Fernando Salas…Jerry Blevins…the Easter Bunny…whoever. That remains my takeaway ample hours […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Salas, Jackie Robinson, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Managerial Decisions Gone Awry, Terry Collins, Unknowables Maybe Terry Collins should have motivated the Mets more directly once they got to the postseason. Maybe he should have taken a page from Walt Michaels, the Jets head coach who, in the midst of the 1982 NFL playoffs, grabbed his players attention by focusing it squarely on the bottom line. “I remember Walt Michaels walking […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2016 Mets, Antonio Bastardo, Asdrubal Cabrera, Carl Erskine, Football, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Motivation, No Decisions, Postseason Shares, Terry Collins, Walt Michaels, World Series Shares I knew Monday night’s game against the Marlins would be emotionally wrenching. I think we all did. But I wasn’t prepared for just how tough it would be, and how tough it kept being. There was the sight of every Marlin wearing Jose Fernandez‘s No. 16, and the knowledge that it would never be worn again. There was […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Fernandez, Justin Bour, Marlins, Martin Prado, Moment of Silence, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes I need to find a hobby that’s better for my health than watching the New York Mets. I’m thinking maybe Russian roulette. A long time ago, when I was still innocent and believed there was good in the world, it was a beautiful night for a ballgame. I was sitting in the stands with my wife, enjoying a crystal-clear […] 111 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Disasters, Ender Inciarte, Overmanaging, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes 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 Had Steven Matz carried his Sunday no-hitter attempt at Citi Field two outs further and into the ninth inning, it would have been fascinating to have seen how Terry Collins would have balanced the not necessarily meshing interests of history (or HI32ORY) and preservation…preservation of Matz’s bone-spurred left elbow. But since Matz gave up his first hit, […] 74 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Media Criticism, No-Hit Bids, Steven Matz, Terry Collins |
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