 
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. |
There has to be a Met fan out there who got stuck with an uncooperative schedule and plopped down on the couch or in the stands after the first inning. Sorry pal — you missed a lot. You missed David Wright walloping a pitch over the Great Wall of Flushing, followed two batters later by Yoenis Cespedes unloading, […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolo Colon, David Wright, Lucas Duda, PItching, Yoenis Cespedes Twelve! Twelve! Twelve! And so on. You didn’t necessarily have to be there. You could glean just fine far from Citi Field what 12 runs in one inning looked like, felt like, even smelled like. It smelled like victory, of course. But if you were fortunate enough to be at Citi Field on Friday night, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexa, Butch Huskey, Jake Peavy, Mets Jeopardy, Mike Broadway, My Cousin Vinny, Neil Walker, New Year's Eve, Sade, Team History, Twelve-Run Inning, Ty Wigginton, Yoenis Cespedes Sometimes you just have a feeling. Sometimes you just know — no matter how long the odds, how deep the deficit, how frustrating the evening has been — that when it’s all over, your team is going to come through for you. I knew no such thing Tuesday night. I can’t even say I had a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brandon Finnegan, Bryan Price, Cold, Comebacks, David Wright, Hamilton, Ivan DeJesus, Mike Piazza, Mysterious Tyler Holt Chant, Pleasant Surprises, Spinal Stenosis, Tony Cingrani, Tough Tickets, Tyler Holt, Yalta, Yoenis Cespedes I missed the first Met home run of Tuesday night while I was consumed by the culinary arts. I missed the second Met home run of Tuesday night because I was standing in line waiting to partake of the democratic process. Don’t worry, the Mets said — we’ll make more. And I approve that message. If you […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Home Runs, Juan Lagares, Logan Verrett, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Best, Rafael Montero, The Beatles, Yoenis Cespedes Tonight your still-winless recapper takes on the question all of us are suddenly forced to take on: What’s wrong with Matt Harvey? To be sure, it’s April. If you’re panicking in April, you’re either new to this or ought to broaden your interests. Walking across Brooklyn on a beautiful day, Joshua and I had a long […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Indians, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, PItching, Yoenis Cespedes The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes Four consecutive losses could have made a person think the stop after 111th Street on the 7 local to Flushing had been redubbed Mets-What’s The Point? The young season was clearly too callow to know it was already over (otherwise, it would have had the good sense to suspend its campaign). The plunging Mets might […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Animal House, Asdrubal Cabrera, Empire Suite, Jeurys Familia, Kevin Plawecki, Logan Verrett, Panic City, Rey Sanchez, Seven Deadly Sins, Shake Shack, Yoenis Cespedes Tom Seaver returned from M. Donald Exile (a.k.a. Cincinnati) on April 5, 1983, and though it was as if order had been restored to Shea Stadium, one element of the Metsian universe had been disturbed. The home uniform Tom donned for his triumphant restoration as king of our hill had been notably altered. The emperor’s […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1992 Mets, 2-3 Starts, Darryl Strawberry, Jim Henderson, Ken Henderson, Racing Stripes, Rickey Henderson, Ron Darling, Small Sample Sizes, Sports Illustrated, Steve Henderson, Team History, The Simpsons, Tom Seaver, Uniforms, Willie Randolph, Yoenis Cespedes It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list — unless you’re redefining the term to mean “stuff that makes me want to puke when I think about enduring it” — but I can now say I’ve been through an Opening Day that I was dreading. Dreading Opening Day? What a bizarre thing for a lifelong fan to say. […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, ESPN, Matt Harvey, Mike Moustakas, Opening Day, Royals, Yoenis Cespedes After paying just enough attention to Spring Training to notice the hitters aren’t necessarily behind the pitchers anymore — guys in Mets unis lost 14-9 on Saturday but won 11-0 on Sunday — I realize my anxieties are lagging behind my capacity for calm. That’s a very unusual March alignment. Starting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera might miss […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Wright, Dilson Herrera, Eerie Calm, Goose Gossage, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Spring Training, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Yoenis Cespedes |
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