 
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. |
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 I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays Twelve different pitchers have started games for the New York Mets this season. Chris Young has been neither the best nor the worst of the lot, nor, within a universe that briefly included Chris Schwinden, the most obscure among them. But he is he one I keep forgetting. I’ve all but forgotten Chris Young is in the [...] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aramis Ramirez, Chris Young, Ryan Braun, Serviceable, Starting Pitching Once in a while, particularly in a season that’s wandered dutifully into its gone-to-hell portion, the Mets will play a game that, like a piece of black, volcanic glass in Andy Dufresne’s favorite Maine hayfield, has no earthly business on their ledger. It will be tense, it will be tight, it will be gripping…even if [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jay Bruce, Josh Edgin, Mat Latos, Scoreless Games, The Shawshank Redemption The Mets scored nine runs Thursday afternoon. Really? They scored nine runs one night after leaving everybody on in San Francisco but Tony Bennett. Thursday they had one fewer baserunner than they did Wednesday but crossed the plate seven more times despite hitting one less homer — or zero. And they won both games. REALLY!?! Ronny [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Dogma, Herbert Hoover, Jordany Valdespin, Melky Cabrera, Ronny Cedeno, T-shirts, Terry Collins From The Lesser-Known Haikus and Other Poetry of Miguel Batista, Vol. 4: I throw a baseball Like Jon Niese the night before, Chris Young was good — one bad pitch in six innings, and he even contributed a double. Yes, that third time through the opposing order [...] When the Mets receive a really good start, as they did on Tuesday night, or plate a whole lot of runs, as they did on Tuesday night — or if they do both (Tuesday night again) — then they’re pretty damn unbeatable. I guess you could say that for any club in receipt of those [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2012 Mets, Chris Young, Cliff Lee, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fan Instinct, Miguel Batista, Relief Pitching, Tim Byrdak The more you watch baseball and the more you mature as a person, the less you are inclined to blithely dismiss the people who play the game in a glib, pejorative fashion. For example, it would have been shallow and unfair of me to have thought, in 2011, “My god, Chris Capuano and Chris Young [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Perceptions, West Coast Trips OK, first of all: Ouch. We had the bastards … or so it seemed. Going into the game, I was nervous about Chris Young’s fly-ball tendencies given where fly balls hit by the Yankees tend to land, as last night’s Cano/A-Rod/Andruw barrage demonstrated. I didn’t have to be: Young was great, stifling the Yankees through six innings [...] It’s not a good sign when you miss nearly all of the Subway Series, then are relieved that your team has an off-day. I was at my 25th high-school reunion over the weekend, and so the Debacle in the Bronx was reduced to occasional bleary, baleful glowers at my phone, with the exception of a couple [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jordany Valdespin, Keith Hernandez, Tropicana Field |
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