 
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. 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. |
The high-flying, temporarily much-beloved, pitch-count-focused, never-say-die Mets arrived in Miami to find the Marlins in the home version of their horrible new uniforms and ensconced in their horrible new park before a somewhat larger number of their horrible non-fans than we’re used to seeing. There was a lot new there, on both sides, but one thing [...]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Greg Dobbs, Jeffrey Loria, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Marlins Park OK, the game. It was another beaut — it really was. Mark Buehrle and R.A. Dickey faced off in a corker of a pitcher’s duel, with Buehrle’s deadly sinking change evenly matched against Dickey’s fluttering knucklers. Omar Infante hit a home run that would have gone out of old Yankee Stadium to give the Marlins [...] Between one of Tuesday night’s half-innings when nobody was touching either starting pitcher, Citi Field’s bounty of video screens posted a trivia question answered by a random face in the crowd. Engrossed in conversation, I didn’t catch the question, but when I heard the answer, I knew what would happen next: the answer would walk [...] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cognitive Dissonance, Continuum, Dave Kingman, Emotion, Enemies, Free Agency, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marlins, Mets Fans, Opponents 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 “This is the train to Woodside and Penn Station,” the Long Island Rail Road conductor informed us as the westbound 11:04 pulled out of Jamaica on Opening Day. “Change at Woodside for Shea.” Best advice I’d heard since my iPod’s 1986 playlist was telling me twenty minutes earlier to get Metsmerized, get Metsmerized. Hello dark plaque, [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Chipper Jones, Frank Francisco, Gary Carter, Home Opener, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets Opening Day, Shea Stadium It comes in my size, but it wouldn't have fit. A confession: since the first week of December, I’ve been window-shopping at marlins.com. I’ve eyed, ogled and contemplated Item No. 12551066: Miami Marlins Jose Reyes Name and Number T-Shirt by Majestic Athletic. Out of curiosity after Reyes made his free agent decision, I looked to [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continued Separation Pangs, Fred Wilpon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, T-shirts With a handful of numerical matters in the news and the 13th birthday today of Jon Springer’s pioneering Mets By The Numbers site (whose generally uncredited research provides the data for articles like these), I decided this morning to do one of my periodic number spot checks. It works like this: I count up from 1 [...] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Baldwin, Bob Geren, Bob Myrick, Carl Barger, Del Unser, Esix Snead, Gary Carter, Jose Reyes, Larry Bowa, Logan Morrison, Mets By The Numbers, Retired Numbers, Rob Johnson, Sergio Ferrer, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays That’s Joshua’s Jose Reyes shirt, off to Goodwill, and if you’ll excuse me I need a minute. There seems to be something in my eye. A friend and I were discussing recent Met developments over the weekend. He referred to “Gil and Reyes,” as in he perceives an anti-New York bias inherent in Gil Hodges not making the generally worthless National Baseball Hall of Fame and Jose Reyes not finishing in the Top Ten of the National League MVP voting. [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, Coping, Disappointment, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Team History Back in May I wondered what it would feel like when the number of Jose Reyes Mets highlights remaining were reduced to zero. Now we know. It sucks. Jose Reyes is no longer a Met. That’s awful enough right there, but of course it’s worse. Jose Reyes is a Miami Marlin. Eighteen times a year, starting in late [...] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons |
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