 
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. |
In the bottom of the second inning last night, the umpires made R.A. Dickey cut two small friendship bracelets off the wrist of his glove hand — bracelets his daughters had given to him in January, before he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Yes really. My suspicions — and those of probably every other Mets fan — immediately focused […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anger, Dusty Baker, Hopelessness, James Hoye, MLB, R.A. Dickey, Reds, Umpires Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson First off, a fearless prediction: R.A. Dickey is not going to win the Cy Young award. He’ll be deserving — he’s got a good chance to lead the league in strikeouts and maybe wins, and he’ll be up there among the ERA leaders. And I have no doubt that he’ll be mentioned alongside Ryan Vogelsong and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Game Winners, Andres Torres, knuckleball, R.A. Dickey, Tony La Russa Let’s get the part that made me mad out of the way: In the bottom of the first, Mike Baxter came to the plate for his first Citi Field at-bat since he was helped off the field on the night of June 1, after the amazing sprawling catch that preserved Johan Santana’s no-hit bid. In […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Citi Field, Food, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Baxter This time I saw it coming — a brutal regression to the mean in the second half of what had been a heartening season. Funny thing is, it didn’t make any difference. Once again I went to kick the football of postseason hopes, and once again the Mets pulled it out of the way, and once again […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Fans, Jeremy Hefner, Mike Baxter, Ruben Tejada A game this weird really demanded to be played in the middle of the night. The Mets had 20 baserunners, putting guys on in every inning except the sixth. They turned that into a total of two runs, which came on a leadoff homer by Ruben Tejada (of all people) and a bases-loaded fielder’s choice by […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Gregor Blanco, Jonathon Niese, Weirdness When it was all finally over and the Mets convened at the mound for a rather muted celebration, Manny Acosta kind of rolled his eyes up at the sky and spread his hands in equal parts thanks and exasperation. It was an entirely appropriate response to his own pitching — in the 10th he walked […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin, Manny Acosta, Mike Baxter, Scott Hairston As it turned out, Matt Harvey didn’t need our prayers. He was superb, fanning a Seaveresque 11 over 5 1/3 innings, surrendering no runs and even hitting for half of the cycle. Then — and this was perhaps even more surprising — the bullpen didn’t blow it. Fireplug reliever Josh Edgin, a fellow 2010 first-round pick, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Hope, Josh Edgin, Matt Harvey, Rookies Brian: I’m not the Messiah! Bill Pulsipher. Jason Isringhausen. Paul Wilson. Octavio Dotel. Billy Traber. Pat Strange. Tyler Yates. Yusmiero Petit. Scott Kazmir. Brian Bannister. Philip Humber. Kevin Mulvey. John Maine. Mike Pelfrey. Alay Soler. Jenrry Mejia. The list goes on and on. Let’s […] … the Mets went 0-for-August at Shea Stadium. I remember it all too well. They were 0-13 for the month, with game after game a despairing, infuriating question of when, not if. They then lost the first two home games in September, making the home futility streak 15 straight. The final loss was a 3-2 defeat […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Despair, Jeremy Hefner, Stephen Strasburg |
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