 
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. |
On Sunday afternoon a strange thing happened at Citi Field: The Mets won the kind of game that used to constantly go the Marlins’ way. Seriously, if you’ve been a Mets fan for 10 years or so, look at this sequence out of context and tell me it doesn’t conjure up Soilmaster Stadium, Luis Castillo, Antonio [...] I’ve decided there are three junctures of the Spring Training schedule that make the endless nature of the exhibition interregnum worthwhile. First, there’s that inaugural Spring Training broadcast, when those voices you value most greet you for the first time in a proper context in months. You might have heard them announcing hockey or college basketball [...] “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing once more in frustrating fashion and falling a little further away from first place in the National League East, a perch nobody…nobody…envisioned [...]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2013 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Chris Schwinden, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Reality, Rockheads, Ruben Tejada Thursday in Hempstead was incredibly outstanding, if not quite as incredibly outstanding as Thursday in Flushing, thus some last-minute changes to Friday’s program have been implemented. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM ADDENDA FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 9:00 AM FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 10:30 AM 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fiftieth Anniversary, Heath Bell, Hofstra, Justin Turner, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Sweep 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 The Mets all but screwed up a game started by Mike Pelfrey and it had absolutely nothing to do with Mike Pelfrey. Now that’s what I call progress. Other events covering the bottom of the eighth through the bottom of the ninth inning Saturday afternoon…now that’s what I’d call retrogression. It was going to be such a simple [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, Aubrey Huff, Billy Wagner, Brandon Belt, Bruce Bochy, Buster Posey, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dumbass Wins, Frank Francisco, Gary Cohen, Idiotic Managing, Iron Triangle, Jon Rauch, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Luis Castillo, Mental Backpack, Mike Pelfrey, Philip Humber, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, Tim Byrdak, Tim Teufel Nothing makes you dislike a team you normally barely notice than being surrounded by a surfeit of its followers. Who knew the San Francisco Giants had enough followers in New York to constitute a dislikable surfeit? It must be because every 23-year-old from the San Francisco Bay Area packed his or her belongings and moved to [...] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Legacies, New York Giants David Wright has 733 career RBIs, a .500 batting average and, I vaguely recall, a fractured pinky. Ike Davis has three home runs in four days despite playing no games for four-and-half months last season and contracting valley fever this spring. Kirk Nieuwenhuis has been leading off games in the major leagues for one day [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Ike Davis, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mike Baxter, The Honeymooners, Zen Why did it take me nearly 43 years to get to Cooperstown? I’m not really sure. For a while it was because I was a kid, and I don’t think it occurred to me that the Baseball Hall of Fame was somewhere you could actually go, even though I must have read approximately eleventy-billion Baseball Digest [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Hall of Fame, Kirk Nieuwenhuis Baseball’s beautiful and elevating and timeless and pastoral and all those good high-minded things, but it’s also a lot of fun — particularly when things go off the rails and the game is played roly-poly, pell-mell, tumble-bumble, like it was in the ninth inning tonight. And when you win. That’s important too. But let’s not get [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Danny Espinosa, David Wright, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Mike Pelfrey, Ruben Tejada, Todd Tichenor |
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