 
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. |
Somebody cared enough to pay homage to Shea, and it wasn’t a Met. On Sunday, I made my final trip to Shea, from Manhattan to Flushing Meadow on the team bus. Excuse me. Not Shea. Citi Field. Shea is the third of my four kids, all boys. Shea Stadium was the place where the fans [...]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1999 Mets, 2012 Postseason, An Appreciation, Braves, Chipper Jones Nice to see so many Braves fans decided all at once to reject the symbolism inherent in their foam tomahawks and hurl them to the field in protest of what they represent. What surprised me was learning they also found empty Bud Light cans culturally insensitive. Or maybe they just thought they got jobbed on a [...] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Andrelton Simmons, Braves, Captain Morgan, Cardinals, Chipper Jones, Infield Fly Rule, Orioles, Pete Kozma, Phil Niekro, Rangers, Sam Holbrook, Wild Card By predictably losing on Sunday — between Kris Medlen’s streak and Chipper Jones’s farewell, I had next to no doubt about the outcome at Turner Field — the 73-86 Mets made certain their record in 2012 will not be as good as their record was in 2011 (77-85), which wasn’t as good as their record [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Kris Medlen, Progress, Resolve Game Six against the Red Sox. The Steve Henderson Game. The Marlon Anderson Game. The Rob Gardner-Chris Short Double Shutout that went 18 innings and was terminated by curfew. The Largest Comeback in Mets History, at the Astrodome, when an 8-0 deficit became an 11-8 win. The Mets have played some great Saturday night games in [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Cholula Hot Sauce, Chris Young, Craig Kimbrel, Gary Cohen, Jason Bay, Keith Hernandez, Mike Minor, Saturday Night, Scott Hairston, SNY The first predictable part was the Mets scoring no more than three runs Sunday, a total they haven’t exceeded in their own ballpark since Robert Moses wore short pants, a span covering their three most recent Citi Field series (and, presumably, the late Robert Moses’s legs). They scored two, extending the frayed string in question [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian McCann, Chipper Jones, Fredi Gonzalez, Hidden Ball Trick, Johnny Venters, Lack of Offense, LIRR, Reed Johnson, Ruben Tejada 1) It appears impossible to all but give away tickets to a Mets game in September, and that includes trying to all but give away tickets to people outside Citi Field who seem determined to go to the Mets game about to be played. Saturday afternoon was my annual Mets game with Jeff from Washington [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Citi Field, Jeurys Familia, McFadden's, Oddball Behavior, Pat LaFrieda, Rain, September, Sterling Awards, T-shirts, Zack Wheeler The interesting part of the first game of Chipper Jones’s farewell to Citi Field and Mets fans? It was over long before the teams took the field. The Mets lost, 3-0, doing absolutely nothing with bats in their hands. The pitching was good — Jon Niese and Jenrry Mejia made a bad pitch each, and [...] Larry Jones has been hard to miss, but we’ll manage. First responder caps…Bobby Valentine embroiled in controversy…wondering how the Mets are going to handle Chipper Jones… What decade is this anyway? I’m not in the mood to be overly outraged at the moment, so I’ll just say I agree with Jason’s assertion that the Mets are not [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2001 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Caps, Chipper Jones Thank you for your interest in joining the Chipper Jones Metropolitan Victim Club. Please fill out the attached application fully, and Mr. Jones’s selection committee will meet at home plate to inform you of your membership status in a timely manner. ————– NAME: Josh Edgin If there’s one thing Johan Santana does not strike me as, it’s insecure. He suffered the worst outing of his career Tuesday night in Atlanta — same place his professional life had to be put on interminable hold in 2010 — yet judging by his calm demeanor and rational responding during a postgame media grilling [...] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Fiftieth Anniversary, Insecurity, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets Fans |
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