 
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. |
Addison Reed looked tired. Travis d’Arnaud looked lost. Asdrubal Cabrera looked determined. Jeurys Familia at first looked vulnerable, then unbeatable. Eric Campbell looked happy to be there. Josh Smoker looked ecstatic to be there. It’s not enough for me to watch the players on my team play ball. I now find myself thinking along with them, […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alejandro De Aza, Curtis Granderson, Eric Campbell, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Pennant Race, September, Team Effort, Travis d'Arnaud In light of recent staff-depleting events, I’ve found myself thinking of two names embedded in my baseball consciousness as very specific avatars relevant to our current situation: Marty Bystrom and John Candelaria. Candelaria you might recognize as a veteran pitcher who was acquired by the Mets under stressful circumstances. It was the middle of September […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Grizzled Veterans, John Candelaria, Marty Bystrom, Robert Gsellman, September, Unheralded Rookies I can’t take me anywhere. I can, but I can’t depend on me to respond as social norms suggest I should. I took myself to Citi Field Tuesday night at the invitation of a friend. The ostensible lure was the manifestation of that old Wilponian chestnut, Meaningful Games In September, MGIS for short (mishegas for our […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Cleon Jones, Dee Gordon, Fred Wilpon, Marv Throneberry, September, Tom Koehler, Tom Seaver, Uniforms The team that was a surefire bet to cruise to another division title got off to a rocky start. But then they began to right the ship, they had their pitching lined up, and once September rolled around, they took dead aim at first place, inching closer and closer day by day until they were […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Dario Alvarez, David Wright, Erik Goeddel, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Michael Stanley Band, Rich Sauveur, September, Yoenis Cespedes Over the past three games, the sub-.500 Mets have scored 20 runs and allowed 20 runs against the sub-.500 teams directly adjacent to them in the standings. It’s been like a sporadically entertaining round-robin of mediocrity. But they’ve won two of these three games, which is good news for those still keeping track of the Mets’ […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Metropolitan Hospitality, September, U.S. Open You know why you should pay attention to your Metsies 162 times a year, even between 12:35 and 3:26 in the afternoon of the 158th time they play in a lost year like 2013? Because if you do, you might find yourself immersed in the unlikeliest of debates, such as the one my friend and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Day Games, Juan Centeno, Reds, September I wonder what Mets ownership thought as it looked out the windows from its counting house Thursday afternoon and observed a Citi Field whose live gate was probably 70% (at least) Giants fans. I’m guessing there were two competing thoughts besides, “Hey, look — people!” 1) “What a disgrace that our team has fallen so far […] Nine innings took three hours and fifty-five minutes to complete. It only felt longer. There was nothing good about Tuesday night’s Mets-Giants game except that it was played. And that was a good enough reason to rouse me from what otherwise would have been four-plus hours on my couch — because what’s an endless game without […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Citi Field, Giants, New York Giants, September, Yusmeiro Petit, Zack Wheeler There they go, off to a farm upstate, and I don’t mean Binghamton. Your 2013 New York Mets are no longer mathematically alive for postseason consideration. Spiritually they never showed much of a pulse, either, give or take a delusion or two that sprouted amidst the heat of late July. This season still somehow has […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, David Aardsma, Hopelessness, September, Zack Wheeler The Mets collected one hit. The Nationals hit five home runs. You do the math. Don’t let the Mets do the math. They welcomed perhaps 3,000 of us to Citi Field, yet reported a paid attendance of 20,174. Those are tickets sold. Some 17,000 humans purchased or had purchased on their behalf a ticket for […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Gio Gonzalez, Greg Burke, One-Hitters, September, Zach Lutz |
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