 
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. |
Well, that was inconclusive. I would love to exult in a thrilling Mets victory or, barring that, dissect a frustrating Mets loss. Instead, let’s just all stare out the window and wait for 6:10 PM, for we have ourselves a suspended game, something I don’t know the Mets have had at home since Ed Kranepool couldn’t [...]  17 comments | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Anthony Varvaro, B.J. Upton, Cliffdwellers, Dan Uggla, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, Evan Gattis, Fireworks Night, Freddie Freeman, Golden Sombrero, Greg Burke, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Upton, Kris Medlin, LaTroy Hawkins, Lenny Randle, Lucas Duda, Oral Surgery, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Suspended Games, Team History, Terry Collins, Ties, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Wes Westrum Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. [...] The Miami Marlins are horrible. Besides being a cautionary lesson to the next fanbase extorted into building a Xanadu for a sharp-elbowed gazillionaire owner (which is a fancy way of saying “an owner”), the Marlins have no hitters besides Giancarlo Stanton and Greg Dobbs, who wouldn’t count except we all know Greg Dobbs could still connect [...] 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 [...] Some Sunday at the end of August — with no hurricane in sight and no hurricane having recently hit — is the time to spend an afternoon in my hometown. The birth certificate says different, but I’m a native of Long Beach, Long Island, New York. Got myself born in Brooklyn because my Long Beach-resident [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Home, Hurricanes, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Kelly Shoppach, Long Beach, Lucas Duda, Radio Goodness is it ever exhausting being a Mets fan sometimes. On Thursday night, when the Phillies had finished administering a 16-1 pasting of the Mets, Terry Collins accused his team of quitting — or rather, he let his refusal to say they hadn’t quit indicate rather clearly that he thought they had. On Friday afternoon, horribly but [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Lucas Duda, Marlins, Ozzie Guillen, Terry Collins As Charlie Rich taught me when I was just a lad listening to WGBB, people like to talk, lord, don’t they love to talk. When they can’t talk, they whisper. Sometimes the whispering works as such: • First somebody whispers to somebody about this guy. • Then somebody disseminates the whispers about the guy. • Then everybody rushes [...] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Whisper Campaigns Apologies to anyone who wanted a late-night recitation of Metly things — your correspondent fell asleep somewhere between the conclusion of the game and the beginning of the chronicling. Honestly, it was the proper reaction to the one of the longer, more pedestrian, less elegant baseball games you’ll see: terrible pitching, bad baserunning, lousy fielding. Particularly [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda After wrapping up their current series in Miami, the Mets re-enter the general baseball conversation for a little while, which has its upside and its down. The upside is everything the Mets do in their succeeding nine games against St. Louis, Atlanta and Washington potentially impacts the playoff picture. The down is that what appears [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Daniel Murphy, David Samson, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Justin Ruggiano, Kelly Shoppach, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Mike Baxter, MLB Network, Ozzie Guillen, Pennant Race, Steve Cishek In a season turned disappointing, Matt Harvey’s performances just get more encouraging. Harvey throws a fastball in the high 90s and supplements it with a good curve and slider and a developing change-up, so this statement wouldn’t seem to be edging too far from the tree trunk. But none of Harvey’s pitches was working particularly well [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Prospects |
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