 
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. |
In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores In case you don’t remember, baseball is back. A week ago at this time, you could barely sit still in anticipation of its annual arrival. Now it’s part of the woodwork. I like the woodwork this way. I like baseball this way. I like when it keeps us company this way, embedded so smoothly into the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Michael Cuddyer, Nicknames, Reaction Shots, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman, Wilmer Flores Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made physical errors, followed by multiple members of the team making mental errors. Those weren’t the fun parts. But these parts were pretty neat: back-to-back home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, David Wright, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Phil Gosselin, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores Some players you take an instant liking to. I took an instant liking to Wilmer Flores when he first came up two Augusts ago. He’s likable. He’s rootable. I’m rooting for him to succeed if indeed he is the Mets’ starting shortstop in the year ahead. I rooted for morning-line starting second baseman Brad Emaus […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pecota, Brad Emaus, Collin Cowgill, Wilmer Flores When they opened it in 2009, the Mets of Fred and Jeff Wilpon dedicated themselves to convincing potential patrons that Citi Field would present a premium ballpark experience because it would grant those with the right kind of ticket access to exclusive clubs. That first year, very specific castes were established in terms of who […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brad Penny, Bud Selig, Citi Field, Eerily Quiet, Milestones, Promenade, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile, Wilmer Flores Pictured: One of the many innings when Anthony Rendon batted. There were two hints on my ticket for Saturday night’s game that a pleasant result wasn’t in the offing: 1) The Washington Nationals were listed as the opponent. 2) Chris Young’s picture adorned it. The Nationals need no introduction in our neighborhood. One delightfully foot-stompin’ win notwithstanding, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Aurora Borealis, Chris Young, Dave Kingman, Fireworks Night, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler 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 So I’ve been reading this great book by Scott Weidensaul called The First Frontier, about the wars between the early colonists and the Indians. And a stray passage in it reminded me of something I’d forgotten: Connecticut’s 1662 charter claimed its western boundary was the “South Sea,” AKA the Pacific Ocean. This strikes us as […] There were nearly as few available Mets as there were visible Mets fans at Citi Field Wednesday night. The “25-man roster” was as hyperbolic a calculation as “paid attendance of 22,014”. Terry Collins fielded a Quadruple-A lineup, relied on a three-man bench and came up a run short of victory. On the plus side, boy was […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, August, Braves, Left Field Landing, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores There are summer nights when you sense fall’s coming and you want to hold baseball as tightly as you can. This wasn’t one of those nights. This was a night when you wanted to shove baseball as far away as possible and run from it. The Mets started out OK in LA, what with Curtis Granderson clubbing […] |
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