 
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. |
LB looks better surrounded by and not submerged in water. It was anything but a dark and stormy night the last time I was in my hometown of Long Beach, a place I’ve seen a lot of the last couple of days on TV as it’s become a body of water instead of merely being [...] It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but given a punchless Mets lineup with too many dudes looking up at the Mendoza Line and David Wright [...]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blue Jays, Brian Knight, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Umpiring As I’ve grown older, I’ve had to be less doctrinaire about 1:10 and 7:10 and where in the pecking order of life “WATCH METS” fits. There are business trips, social events, the duties of fatherhood — a whole welter of things that sometimes come between me and the game. But most of the time, I can [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Howie Rose, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada 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 Monday night I did something I’m certain I hadn’t done since the twilight of Fran Healy. I turned down the sound on a Mets-generated telecast so I could listen to the game on radio. GKR heresy, I know, but I gave Gary, Keith & Ron part of the exhibition season opener off so I could [...] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Lorn Brown, Nino Espinosa, Radio, Wayne Hagin, WFAN, Willie Montanez With apologies to the late Warren Zevon: Hurry home early, hurry on home Fortunately, you don’t have to hurry home. At 2 o’clock Eastern, just flick on ESPN Radio (1050 AM in New York) wherever you happen to be. Or go to espnradio.com. Fire up the appropriate app. Hitch a [...] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Radio, WFAN A sometimes irritating, sometimes amusing side effect of chronicling games as a blogger is the weird double vision you develop as events take their course. By the middle innings you find yourself wondering what your theme is — or wondering if this is one of those ho-hum games where you’re going to have to invent [...] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Howie Rose, Marvin Hudson, Nationals, Terry Collins, Umpires With the seventh pick in the first round of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, the New York Mets selected…some kid. I wish him well. I wish to see him on the Mets before too long. Until then, Matt Harvey — RHP, UNC — is just a name to me, no more guaranteed of success than [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Atlantic City, Bill Caudill, Chris Donnels, Darryl Strawberry, Delino DeShields Jr., Draft, Expos, Howie Rose, Ken Griffey Jr., Mariners, Matt Harvey, Never Mets, Randy Johnson, Retirement, Shawn Abner, The Simpsons, The Waltons Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. They checked [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Bar Mitzvah, Citi Field, Flashback Friday, Howie Rose, Nolan Ryan, Radio, Tom Seaver If you can remember when there were first times and when there were long times, but when there was no first time/long time, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Twenty years ago this month Dick Young died. I know — easy applause line. Go ahead: give his demise a hand if you [...] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Flashback Friday, Howie Rose, Radio, WFAN |
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