The beginning of a baseball season is light and consequence-free — with six months of games ahead, you can relax a bit, allowing yourself to simply enjoy having baseball as a companion again. Starting in June, things begin to get serious — you’re conscious of the standings, of opportunities taken and missed and lost. This […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Guillermo Heredia, Juan Soto, Justin Wilson, Kurt Suzuki, Michael Conforto, Robinson Chirinos The Mets were supposed to be off Thursday, which would have been fitting given the sad news Wednesday night that Tom Seaver — No. 41, the Franchise, the most essential and irreplaceable figure in team history — had died Monday at 75. Thursday would have been a day to mourn and reflect on the memory […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Aroldis Chapman, Billy Hamilton, Edwin Diaz, Farewells, J.A. Happ, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Manny Sanguillen, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tyler Ford, Yankees You know the thing about moral victories in baseball, right? Namely, that they don’t exist. You were down 8-1 and gallantly came back and showed fight and lost 8-7? Here’s a pat on the head, because that’s called a loss. Well, Wednesday night’s game against the Marlins, because of course it had to be the Marlins, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Justin Wilson, Stupid Marlins Hello from Long Beach Island, which has been our summer getaway every year but one since 2003. We booked this trip back in the spring, reasoning that this part of the Jersey Shore is normally pretty socially distanced anyway and the restaurant scene has never been the draw for us, so perhaps it wouldn’t be […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Drew Smith, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Justin Wilson, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo “Everywhere I went,” Marvin Gaye and, later, James Taylor sang, “it seems I’d been there before.” In that spirit of history either repeating or rhyming, I’d have to say that on Wednesday night, I kind of got what they were getting at. On October 25, 1986, though the result didn’t go final until the earliest hour […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2006 NLCS, Andres Gimenez, Blake Swihart, Christian Vazquez, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Frustration, Jacob deGrom, James Taylor, Jim Edmonds, John McNamara, Jose Reyes, Justin Wilson, Larry Gelbart, Marvin Gaye, Moment of Silence, Red Sox, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Willie Randolph Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of arrival in […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Cards, Brad Brach, Brooks Pounders, Chris Mazza, Donnie Hart, Edwin Diaz, Hector Santiago, J.D. Davis, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rajai Davis, Robinson Cano, Ryan O'Rourke, Sam Haggerty, Stephen Nogosek, The Holy Books, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font, Wilson Ramos 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 The knots were back Sunday night. Troops of Boy Scouts, fleets of fishermen and stomachs belonging to Mets fans watching their team in the playoffs — these are the entities that know knots well. Except the Mets weren’t in the playoffs on Sunday night. It was the middle of September. Too soon for playoffs, but […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, Brandon Nimmo, Jedd Gyorko, Justin Wilson, One-Game Playoffs, Playoffs, Seth Lugo, Stomachs Tied in Knots, Tension, Zack Wheeler Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence Eighteen years ago, I added a new team to my consciousness. The Brooklyn Cyclones weren’t actually a new club. They were the old St. Catharines Stompers, and spent the summer of 2000 as the Queens Kings, affiliated with the Blue Jays but owned by the Mets and playing before basically nobody at St. John’s. That was […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Edwards, Antoine Duplantis, Brooklyn Cyclones, Championships, Edgardo Alfonzo, Fans, Jake Mangum, Joe Davis, Justin Wilson, Lowell Spinners, Marino Campana, MCU Park, Mitch Ragan, Pete Alonso, Ranfy Adon, Wilmer Flores, Yoel Romero |
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