Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of Faith and Fear in Flushing, founded February 16, 2005. For the now twenty Spring Trainings that this blog has existed, we have set out annually in the sincere hope that the Met season ahead serves as prelude to a Met postseason. That’s really all you can ask of a […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Anniversaries, Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Humility, Internal Affairs, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Postseason Acknowledgment, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Stripes, T.J. Rivera, That Thing You Do, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to the fifth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Eric Young Jr., James Loney, Jay Bruce, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Wilson, Mets of the 2010s, Rod Barajas, Scott Hairston, T.J. Rivera Winter does what it can to get us through itself. Every year it pounds signposts into the frozen tundra so we understand what feels like it will last forever doesn’t. We don’t anticipate the baseball rituals that get us through winter because we’re too busy anticipating the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Barbra Streisand, Brad Heller, Bryce Harper, Ed Coleman, Football, Gary Carter, James Loney, Justin Wilson, Manny Machado, Network, Radio, Truck Day, Wayne Randazzo, WCBS, Winter Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees Wednesday night’s win over the Marlins was full of encouraging signs for the Mets, and left me feeling something I’ve rarely felt in a tight race’s last few days: a sense of calm. Seth Lugo looked shaky early, struggling to command his pitches and reminding us that for all his meritorious service, he’s written an out-of-nowhere story that makes Jacob […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, James Loney, Jay Bruce, Pennant Race, Seth Lugo One of the great frustrations of being a fan is how different a team can look on successive days. In one game absolutely nothing works; less than 24 hours later everything does. Or vice versa, of course. Players know this far better than we do and respond to it with a studied stoicism that we sometimes […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rizzo, Bartolo Colon, George Weiss, James Loney, Jason Heyward, Johnny Murphy, Reggie Jackson, Steve Chilcott, Whitey Herzog Sometimes you look at the screen and you know you’re doomed. Then you look at the tiny score bug in the corner of the screen and realize you’re not. You’re losing in all facets of the game, especially on the scoreboard, but it hits you after a while that the game is neither over nor […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Counterintuitive Wins, James Loney, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, The Flintstones, The Odd Couple Brandon Nimmo is more than just happy to be here, but make no mistake: he’s happy to be here. Look at the smile that accompanied him around the bases after he bopped the first home run of his career, the one that elevated the Mets to a 7-1 lead en route to a soggy 10-2 […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Gary Rajsich, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Rain Delays, Seth Lugo, Smile, The Simpsons, Yoenis Cespedes Well now. The Mets, baseball’s worst second-place, currently-qualified-for-postseason-play team, won a game that was alternately exasperating, entertaining, frightening, amusing, and mostly befuddling. If you missed it, Steven Matz cruised through four innings, facing the minimum and watching as the Mets put up an eight-spot against punching bag Aaron Blair. At which point everything — no really, everything — […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, James Loney, Jose Reyes, Reality, Second Chances, Steven Matz Mets are down one to the allegedly lousy Braves in the bottom of the ninth with nobody out. Wilmer Flores is on first. James Loney has lashed a Jim Johnson pitch into the left-center gap. Flores is running. We probably have a few minutes until the situation resolves itself. I don’t want to say Wilmer […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ender Inciarte, Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, Haircuts, James Loney, Radio, Saturdays, Tim Teufel, Wilmer Flores |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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