 
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 won. That, as always, is the big thing. On Monday night they won by clubbing balls into the stratosphere, delivering a 14-run beatdown that turned a 7-2 deficit into a 16-7 rout. Tuesday night was different. The Mets got off to a fast start, with a Yoenis Cespedes homer making the score 2-0 before most of […]  37 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Jeanmarie Gomez, Jeff Francouer, Jeurys Familia, Larry Bowa, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Clippard, Unwritten Rules Losing by ten runs once you’ve fallen behind by four in the first inning isn’t better than many things, but based on recent, compelling evidence, it sure beats losing by one run when the tying run stands on third base. A 12-2 loss attributable primarily to Bartolo Colon simply not having it is almost relaxing […] The bad taste of Friday night’s Mets disaster lingered into Saturday, with Twitter moaning and comment sniping and unhappiness all around. Fortunately, I thought, there’s another ballgame today. Because one of the least-celebrated but most important aspects of baseball is that winning fixes things. A crisp win is like a cleansing breeze that airs out everything and leaves […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pierzynski, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Juan Lagares, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud This, too, was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been subconsciously groping for, the game embedded in our DNA. This was the game that signaled perhaps prosperity is neither illusory nor fleeting. This was the game that allowed us to quit looking over our shoulders to see if the worst was gaining […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Darrell Ceciliani, Dave Lemanczyk, Dillon Gee, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mike Foltynewicz, Paul Foytack, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Welp, that first West Coast trip is out of the way, and the Mets went 3-4, but 2-87 if you adjust the results by Depressed Met Fan Black Cloud Overhead Factor. 2-87 is obviously horrible, and in our spiritual standings the Mets are now 10,462 games out of first place. 3-4, on the other hand, is not horrendous […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores This, I thought as I sat in Promenade Box 405 during the sun-soaked bottom of the fourth on Sunday, is where the dream has at last arrived to meet reality. All those computer-generated images of bustling new Mets Ballpark from 2006 tried to capture what the future would look like. It would have people and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Euphoria, Injuries, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud, Winning Streaks Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which burned Terry Collins‘s challenge, which meant he couldn’t challenge the next play, when Ian Desmond overslid second stealing and was called […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Nationals, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires It was probably the eighth inning when I realized I’d been watching the entire game between the Mets and the Rockies yet wasn’t sure I could name a Rockie who was on the field. I taxed my brain and managed to come up with Michael Cuddyer, but that was because he’d hit a home run. Beyond […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Fans, Garbage Time, Rockies, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores I hope everybody had a good Labor Day. Which is another way of saying I hope you didn’t waste a perfectly good holiday witnessing whatever it was the Mets spent their afternoon doing. Terry Collins said it wasn’t a big-league baseball game, and he was right. The Marlins were horrible too, with Marcell Ozuna managing […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Staten Island Yankees, Travis d'Arnaud Good morning. In case you missed Tuesday night’s late Mets game in Oakland, the previously slumping A’s won by a comfortable margin; the Mets collected more than their customary four hits, but to no avail; Travis d’Arnaud homered with nobody on; Dillon Gee struggled through five and two-thirds innings; Gonzalez Germen wasn’t particularly effective in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Gonzalez Germen, Sleepy Performances, Travis d'Arnaud |
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