July 21, 2004 was a hot and sticky day in New York, with the temperature in the high 80s and a night that didn’t promise to be much more comfortable. The Mets were bumping along around .500, and sort of battling for a National League East that no team particularly seemed to want to claim. […]
 
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. |
Closing Day beckons, a day for one David above all to be noticed, to be sure. I assume, anyway. I know David Wright is not supposed to play after what’s billed hard and fast as his final game tonight. Regardless, I will sit where I usually sit […] The highlight of Friday night’s meaningless Mets-Marlins game? It was a first-pitch groundout to third. LOLMets and all that, but those of us who were there to see it were thrilled — because those 10 or so seconds represented the return of David Wright to the place he is most fully himself, the place he belongs, […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brian Anderson, Corey Oswalt, David Wright, Hideous T-Shirts, Jose Urena, Protective Netting Jason Vargas headed into winter in style Thursday night, allowing three hits and no runs over seven innings as the Mets beat the Braves. In fact, Mets starting pitchers allowed the Braves exactly zero runs in the two teams’ final series of the year. Asterisk time! Vargas may have shaved nearly three runs off his ERA […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Devin Mesoraco, Fans, Hope, Jason Vargas, Kevin Plawecki Like Red on the bus to Fort Hancock, Tex., in The Shawshank Redemption, I found I was so excited at Citi Field as the Mets game wore on Wednesday night, I could barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it was the excitement […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Cy Young, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Ozzie Albies, Pitching Brilliance, September, The Shawshank Redemption When David Wright and his employers announced his projected return to active duty, I did what I assume many Mets fans did: I checked StubHub. The cheapest tickets available for Saturday, September 29, were priced at about eight times what the cheapest tickets for every other game I’ve shopped […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, David Wright, Eternity, Mets Third Basemen On Sunday afternoon the Mets and Nationals played their last game against each other in 2018, and it turned out to be an ordeal: more than four hours of bad baseball played in a continuous rain before irritated Nats fans. The Mets bashed not-ready-for-prime-time Nats pitchers about for eight runs, the Nats did the same […] The Mets played the Nationals Saturday and the Nationals were eliminated from postseason contention. Unfortunately, the two events were completely disconnected from one another. The final blow to Washington’s mathematical prayers was struck in St. Louis by Tyler O’Neill, whose walkoff home run put an end to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Austin Voth, Corey Oswalt, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Nationals, Nectarines, Pete McCarthy, Radio, Sominex, the immortal Chris Majkowski, Wayne Randazzo, WCBS, WOR Jacob deGrom was wonderful, and Jacob deGrom … won? No really, he did, and it wasn’t even that bumpy. Which isn’t to say it was entirely smooth sailing: the Nats brought the tying run to the plate against Seth Lugo in the eighth and again against Robert Gsellman in the ninth, causing warning klaxons to blare […] At the beginning of the year I meticulously record the Mets in order of appearance, a bit of ceremony that sustains me until everyone from that initial version of the 25-man roster has stepped between the lines. (Met No. 25 usually comes down to the fifth starter, the reliever whose role is least defined, or […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Austin Jackson, Extra Innings, Farce, Jack Reinheimer, Jason Vargas, Jose Lobaton, Jose Reyes, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Paul Sewald |
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