Most of the time you don’t know. Sometimes you know just enough. Sunday I didn’t definitively know if the Mets were dead and buried at 4-0 after one; were alive and well at 4-4 in the middle of the fourth; had dirt kicked on them at 7-4 at the end of four; had sprung back […]
 
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. |
 16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1990 Mets, 2022 Mets, Alec Bohm, Bob Murphy, Brandon Nimmo, Comebacks, Damn Things, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Jose Butto, Mark Canha, Michael Perez, Nate Fisher, Phillies, Six Feet Under, Starling Marte, Team History, Trevor May The Mets won the damn thing, by a score of 8-7. Those of you with enough years of scar tissue will remember that as channeling Bob Murphy’s judgment after the Mets held off the Phils at the Vet in the summer of 1990, with the last out a liner speared by momentary Met Mario Diaz on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bob Murphy, Bryce Harper, Didi Gregorius, Edwin Diaz, ESPN, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Jose Alvarado, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Phillies, Replay Review, Rhys Hoskins It isn’t a beautiful night at normally beautiful Wrigley Field, as the Mets have fallen further behind the Chicago Cubs, and now manager Luis Rojas comes out of the dugout to have a word with home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman, apparently ready to make a change to his lineup. After conferring with Dreckman, Luis walks […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Cold, David Peterson, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Gil Hodges, J.D. Davis, Luis Guillorme, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Radio, Redeeming Features, Team History, Wrigley Field Acknowledging up front that a pair of regulation baseball games trimmed in advance from nine to seven innings apiece — with ties in the top of the eighth and beyond designed to be resolved expediently by dispatching a runner to second base before anybody stands in the batter’s box — is an affront to nature, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jean Segura, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Stripes, Stupid Rules, Taijuan Walker, These Challenging Times, Unearned Runners I gotta say, I am loving the 1986 vibe around our first-place Mets. True, it’s mostly a function of homecoming weekend (a concept I dared only dream of when Citi Field was no more than a branding exercise), but this wouldn’t work nearly as well without the Mets being in first place. And did I mention […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bob Murphy, Chase Utley, Chase Utley Sucks, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Gary Thorne, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Julio Urias, Lenny Dykstra, Old Timers Day, Racing Stripes, Radio, Team History, WHN, WOR I consider the series finale of Parks & Recreation, which aired Tuesday night, to be one of the finest farewells in the history of episodic television. Yet within twelve hours of viewing, I found something even better to watch. It wasn’t a goodbye episode. More like getting reacquainted. The effect was more invigorating, even, than […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Bill Wambsganss, Bob Murphy, Carl Erskine, Channel 9, Diamond Club Girls, Duke Snider, Joe DiMaggio, Joe Torre, Lindsey Nelson, Mickey Mantle, Old Timers Day, Parks & Recreation, Phil Maci, Ralph Kiner, Roy Campanella, Stan Lomax, Team History, Terry Cashman, Willie Mays Sunday marked 10 years since Bob Murphy’s passing. Though those who fill his role today do a fine job of it, Murph remains missed because how do you ever stop missing Bob Murphy? He is the voice of New York Mets baseball. Is, not was. Not long ago I heard a clip of him. I […] Whatever scale of tribute they pursue, I trust the Mets to do right by Ralph Kiner in death. They did just fine by him in life. Ralph Kiner was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame, alongside Bob Murphy and Lindsey Nelson, in 1984, nine years after the team heartily toasted his induction as a (non-Met) […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson, Mets Fan Perspective, Ralph Kiner, State of Marvana Have I got a book for you. Four of them, actually — one now, three later. And make no mistake: they’re all for you, my fellow Mets fan who likes to read. They’re for us. I’m proud to introduce to you the Banner Day Press book series The Happiest Recap: 50 Years of the New York […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, The Happiest Recap (The Book) We can all agree Niese didn’t have it and the Mets did little against Happ and missing the Astros is something that sounds good in theory, but at this moment they can’t move to the American League soon enough for our tastes. The Mets, a pretty good club in April, started May by losing again […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Gregg Jefferies, Hofstra Conference, Howie Rose, Jack Lang, Language, Let's Go Mets, Marty Noble, Mike Vail, Rheingold, Victor Diaz |
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