As noted often in this space, I consider listening to Gary Cohen talking Mets baseball a perk of being a Mets fan. Listening to him on Saturday, both while sitting in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room as he and his fellow inductees prepared for their big moment on the field, and then from the […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1978 Mets, Citi Field Home Runs, Gary Cohen, John Sullivan, Kodai Senga, LIRR, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Bruhert, Mike Bruhert’s Brother, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Roger Craig, Solo Home Runs, Starling Marte, Tommy Pham, Willie Mays The Mets really could have used another run Saturday. They crossed the plate once in nine innings. Unless their pitchers were crafting a shutout, that wasn’t going to be enough to win their game against the Blue Jays. Collectively, their pitchers held as much fort as they could, giving up only two runs to a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Celebrations, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, One-Run Defeats, Team History It’s an article of faith among people who critique sports media that, ultimately, fans don’t tune into games because of the announcers. That appraisal may track with ratings but it doesn’t reflect enthusiasm. I’ve been tuning into Mets baseball in one form or another with glee in my remote-clicking and button-pushing fingers for more than […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History For me, the Mets are rarely if ever on the periphery. Most nights they’re front and center. But now and then even they have to share space with other pursuits. We’re finishing up three weeks in my folks’ summer cottage in Maine, an annual visit extended this year as an experiment in remote work and escaping […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Keith Hernandez, Orlando Arcia, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tyler Naquin Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill The Mets beat the Marlins by one run. But the Phillies beat the Nationals by one run, and the Braves beat the Rockies by one run, so by the end of Thursday, nothing changed at the top of the NL East, though at least we got to maintain the sensation/illusion that the Mets reside somewhere […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Famous, Backdating, Brad Hand, Ears, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Javy Baez, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Pennant Race, Solidarity, Thumbs, Zack Scott The Mets were supposed to be off Monday night, but instead they wound up in D.C., playing another one of their COVID makeup dates. Jerad Eickhoff was ambushed by the crazed baseball-destroying cyborg formerly known as Kyle Schwarber and the Mets continued to espouse their philosophy of nonviolence at the plate and before you knew […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Futile Comebacks, Gary Cohen, Gary DiSarcina, Jerad Eickhoff, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Pillar, Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Castro, Ron Darling, Ryan Zimmerman, Shifts, SNY, Stupid Nationals, Travis Blankenhorn Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the mid-80s, while I was off at boarding school, I got a letter from my mother. That wasn’t odd, but what was inside was. My mother had sent me a folded-up article […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Gary Carter, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Noah Syndergaard, Roger Angell, Ron Darling, Smoky Joe Wood, SNY, Tim Burke For the past two nights, I haven’t had to think about what to watch on television. It was summer and the Mets were on. The viewing menu for any Mets fan in summer has been dependably predictable that way since 1962. Sub in radio for television if that’s how you roll. Score one for dependability, predictability […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Dom Smith, Fenway Park, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Pandemics, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Televised Content |
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