I’ll admit this: I never thought Fred Wilpon’s line about meaningful games in September was so embarrassing. Granted, I would have revised the line to “meaningful games in the last week of September.” If you’re playing those, your team’s kept you scoreboard watching, hoping and dreaming almost until the end, which I’ll always sign up for. […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cardinals, Kauffman Stadium, New Busch Stadium, Royals At last, I get the picture. (Photo by Andrew Richter) Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, the long dormant milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this, the tenth of ten installments, we make one last trip to our spiritual […] What can I tell you that you don’t already know? You know the Mets are the champions of the National League Eastern Division. They won that title Saturday and they maintained that title Sunday and as regards 2015, it is theirs forever. Even the NCAA can’t take it away. Every time I start to think about […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, Banner Day, Bryce Harper, Choo Choo Coleman, Day After Lineup, Jonathan Papelbon, Leon Janney, Lucas Duda, Polo Grounds, Rheingold, Rookie Hazing There have been 17 champagne celebrations for team accomplishments in New York Mets history. This is a scene from the 17th. Indulge me, Mets fans who weren’t viewers of Mad Men, as I channel Don Draper delivering — à la Matt Harvey on Saturday in Cincinnati — the most impressive pitching we had ever seen […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Division Clinching, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Complete and Utter Lack of Collapse, Mad Men, Monty Python, The Commitments
It’s not a new story any more. In fact it’s a well-worn tale on its way to becoming a cliche. But that’s the fate of stories that resonate with people, that mean something. And this one does. It’s the one I keep coming back to. And it’s worth hearing again. It’s the story of Wilmer Flores, sent […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, David Wright, Faith, Fans, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores A Nationals loss cut it from three to two. A powerful Mets win — Syndergaard, Duda and Granderson at the forefront — sliced it from two to one. That’s where the magic number stands now. With one more Mets win or one more Nats loss, the Mets will have officially qualified for the postseason. With one […] The fine folks of Steak ‘n’ Shake, a restaurant chain I’ve been known to patronize with a little too much enthusiasm for my optimal well-being, use as their slogan the phrase, “In Sight It Must Be Right.” Although its backstory has something to do with letting the customers see the meat that’s about to be […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Damion Easley, Jeurys Familia, Orioles, Steak 'n' Shake The Mets’ slump has become a full-fledged rut, one of those stretches where a team seems suddenly incapable of doing any of the things it just recently did so well. Met hitters are expanding the strike zone and flailing their way through frantic at-bats, Met fielders are being alternately impetuous and butter-fingered, Met starters are faltering and Met relievers are […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Fans, Moment of Silence, Panic City, Pennant Race, Yogi Berra The first-place Mets, you might say, were lucky Tuesday night. True, they lost for the fifth time in seven games — 6-2 to the Braves — but they won a valuable square foot of real estate in their march toward the National League East title when the Nationals lost to the Orioles. Their magic number […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Mets Managers, Moment of Silence, Yogi Berra From our vantage point in the front rows of Citi Field’s third level. Emily, my father-in-law and I had a pretty good view of what was going on down there on the field during the first inning of Monday night’s game. We’d watched Jon Niese convince three Braves to play patty-cake with the infield, and now […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jonathon Niese, Keith Hernandez |
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