 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
So that was awesome. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies would be awesome any time. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies before a huge crowd is even more awesome. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies to finish the halfway point of the season on pace for 88 wins is more awesome still, particularly since the Phils are in [...]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hope, Jonathon Niese, Ruben Tejada, Shane Victorino For once the actual weather matched the spiritual forecast: A day after a thoroughly entertaining World Series that featured a Game 6 for the ages, the East Coast got walloped by a blast of snow, slush and mess. The mess is gone but it’s still cold, and on some essential level it will stay that [...] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 154th game in any Mets season, the “best” 155th game in any Mets season, [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Todd Hundley, Victor Diaz, Willie Harris It wasn’t long ago that I was a fan of a franchise that never had a batting champion but was saddled with the Worst Collapse Ever. Neither is my problem anymore. The Mets still Collapsed with a capital C in 2007, but it was a stumble in the park compared to what we as a baseball-loving [...] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Batting Crown, Closing Day, Collapses, Jose Reyes “Everything changed” after September 11, 2001. No need to delve deeply into the litany of all that implies. But to keep it relatively light, has “everything changed” when it comes to going to a Mets game? I mean once you endure security’s dutiful searches, wandings and pat-downs…and salute the Veteran of the Game…and are asked a [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, 2011 Mets, Constancy, Jorge Toca, Justin Turner, Mets Fans I’ve seen Mets teams in free fall. What’s going on these days isn’t that. They’re not falling. They fell and are incapable of getting up. I can’t even say this is the worst I’ve seen them play in years, and not just because I can go back two years and say I saw much worse. It’s [...] The Mets never say die, but sometimes they die anyway. They won’t say die for the next 45 games but I suspect what remains unspoken will occur more or less half the time no matter their best intentions. Of the choice between “more or less,” more would certainly be preferable. When a team that isn’t supposed [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, August, Hope, Hustle What was farther out of the realm of possibility: that the Mets would make a stand against the Braves or that I’d be there to see them attempt it? Not long ago both happenstances seemed reasonably reasonable. My part should have been a breeze: I made plans to see Friday night’s game with a friend who [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Headaches, Jose Constanza, Moonstruck, Phantom Games, Regrets, Uniforms When the Wild Card was introduced into baseball in 1994, the Mets were mostly hopeless, yet this extra playoff spot allowed me a touch more hope. So I invoked the 14th Amendment (or perhaps it was Rule V) and decided that if the Mets were five out of the Wild Card at the end of [...] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, 2011 Mets, Contenders, Jason Middlebrook, John Thomson, Keith Hernandez, Mark Little, Pretenders, Steve Reed Tonight’s lineup: Jose Reyes – SS No Carlos Beltran, as he is about to be gone for real, to San Francisco by all reports, in exchange for someone we hope will make us [...] |
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