It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but given a punchless Mets lineup with too many dudes looking up at the Mendoza Line and David Wright […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blue Jays, Brian Knight, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Umpiring Try to be cool and analytical all you want, but if you’re a fan eventually you’ll give in to fury and bloodlust. I’M NEVER ATTENDING ANOTHER GAME UNLESS THEY RELEASE LUIS CASTILLO BY MORNING! AARON HEILMAN MUST BE MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLAND WITHOUT EVEN A VOLLEYBALL FOR COMPANY! CHAIN DOUG SISK […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Robert Carson, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins John Axford, the Brewers’ closer who looks enough like George Custer that he could spend the offseason taking part in re-enactments at Little Big Horn, recently blew a save and had to depart before facing to the media. So left behind an apologetic and rather charming note, one that ended with “Cliché… cliché… cliché… another cliché. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, David Wright, Fans, Mike Baxter, Talk Radio, Terry Collins 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 The high-flying, temporarily much-beloved, pitch-count-focused, never-say-die Mets arrived in Miami to find the Marlins in the home version of their horrible new uniforms and ensconced in their horrible new park before a somewhat larger number of their horrible non-fans than we’re used to seeing. There was a lot new there, on both sides, but one thing […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Greg Dobbs, Jeffrey Loria, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Marlins Park To understand that headline, go back a day and read my partner’s rather awesome post about Monday night’s instant Mets Classic. Monday night’s game — forever to be recalled fondly, except in the Papelbon household, as the Jordany Valdespin Game — was a tense, taut affair, about as beautiful as a baseball game can be. Confronted […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Joe Blanton, Jordany Valdespin, Miguel Batista, Pete Orr, Phillies, Ramon Ramirez As I’ve grown older, I’ve had to be less doctrinaire about 1:10 and 7:10 and where in the pecking order of life “WATCH METS” fits. There are business trips, social events, the duties of fatherhood — a whole welter of things that sometimes come between me and the game. But most of the time, I can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Howie Rose, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada It wasn’t fun watching Ike Davis strike out, roll an ankle and let a grounder play him into a helpless knot on its way into right field. It wasn’t fun watching Jon Rauch hang sliders and snap his big, tattooed head around to follow their flight into faraway parts of Citi Field. It wasn’t fun watching Scott […] As I was heading down to tuck the kid into bed, Jose Altuve hit a little squibber in front of the plate, a play that ended with me looking back from the stairs to see Josh Thole and R.A. Dickey standing in annoyed proximity and Altuve far away on first. Another day without a no-hitter, I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Mills, Fans, Manny Acosta, No-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Twitter I’ve had a ball helping my co-blogger moderating panels at Hofstra’s New York Mets Conference over the last day and a half, as well as sitting and listening to smart Mets fans, former players and baseball historians amateur and professional discuss all things blue and orange. On Friday, for instance, I a) heard a great […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Schwinden, Cycles, Hofstra Conference, Scott Hairston |
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