 
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. |
Oh, your 2012 Mets. They bite and claw and fight and come back, so you can never ever give up on them. It’s an endearing quality in a team, particularly one pegged as a second-division outfit. Oh, your 2012 Mets. The second you get giddy, they crash and burn, leaving you in the fetal position. It’s [...]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Zambrano, Frank Francisco, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Justin Turner, Soilmaster Stadium By about the fifth inning or so it was clear that the only way to capture this Bataan Death March of a game was chronologically, as fear ebbed and flowed and was overtaken by exhaustion. If you have trouble fixing just when something happened or recalling what sparked some outburst from me, rest assured that [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Valentine, Extra Innings, Gary Cohen, Greg Dobbs, Hatred, Jack McKeon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Nick Evans, Ronny Paulino, Soilmaster Stadium Periodically you’ll read one of us insisting that subpar baseball is still preferable to sitting glumly around in the winter. I was thinking of that as the Marlins, having dispatched Chris Capuano, tattooed the even more hapless D.J. Carrasco, threatening to put 20 hits on the scoreboard of the hideous Soilmaster Stadium (or, if you [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, Danny Herrera, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium Let’s revisit two days ago’s rather optimistic Mets recap post, shall we? (You don’t want to? Tough. I don’t particularly want to either, but I’m driving this train.) Bobby Parnell may be learning to be successful without his best slider, but nothing a pitcher can learn will get him through days when all he has is his [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Soilmaster Stadium How many duck-and-cover games have the Mets played in Soilmaster Stadium, anyway? And how many of those ended with some fleet, scrappity Marlin hitting a ball just past the first baseman’s glove, or just through the drawn-in infield, or just hugging the third-base line, or just catastrophic enough in some unanticipated way to spell doom [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Hope, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey, Soilmaster Stadium Josh Thole loomed as Mr. Metaphor Saturday night, falling down rounding first and getting his eager ass tagged out on a throw-behind from Emilio Bonifacio to Gaby Sanchez in the seventh, then picking himself up, dusting himself off and lining the go-ahead single in the ninth. Turned out, however, Thole’s destiny was to serve as [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2011 Mets, Blaine Boyer, Bobby Parnell, Brad Emaus, Brett Hayes, Carlos Beltran, Chin-lung Hu, Chris Coghlan, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Frankie Rodriguez, Gaby Sanchez, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Logan Morrison, Lucas Duda, Mike Dunn, Mookie Wilson, Omar Infante, Redemption, Ryan Webb, Scott Cousins, Soilmaster Stadium, Terry Collins, Willie Harris The Florida Marlins remain no help whatsoever. By not having announced a start time for their Opening Day hosting of the New York Mets at Name Subject To Change Stadium, they did not allow us to calculate precisely when the Baseball Equinox would be upon us. That’s something we look forward to figuring out every [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Baseball Equinox, Chin-lung Hu, Marlins, Modest Anticipation, Soilmaster Stadium [T]he ending always comes at last The Mets began this baseball season by playing the Florida Marlins. They suffered their first loss while playing the Florida Marlins. They absorbed their first serious body blow when they were swept by the Florida Marlins. They [...] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Beaky Buzzard, Bugs Bunny, Dan Uggla, Gaby Sanchez, Gary Carter, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Jon Niese, Marlins, Mets Managers, Mike Francesa, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Stanton, Soilmaster Stadium, Wally Backman I was napping when Sunday afternoon’s game began. So were the Mets. When I awoke and flipped on the bedside radio, the first thing I heard from Wayne Hagin was something about trying to limit the damage. But the damage had been done. The Mets were down six-nothing and yet another starting pitcher…and it wasn’t even [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jon Niese, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium, The Shawshank Redemption That was a brutal way to lose a baseball game. I’m referring to tonight against Cody Ross and the Marlins, though I could be referring to Wednesday afternoon against the Nationals, Monday night against the Nationals, Sunday afternoon against the Giants, last Wednesday against the Reds or last Monday against the Reds. But then [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Ross, Johan Santana, Josh Johnson, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium |
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