 
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. |
Now that was a fun game. A mess, to be sure — a big, brawling, unpredictable, crazy game, with lots of reversals and no guarantees, particularly if you were a Reds pitcher asking your defense to get a freaking out already — but a fun mess. For four innings Jonathon Niese looked untouchable, coolly sawing Reds apart […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Hope, Jason Pridie, Justin Turner, Miguel Cairo, Names, Reds, Ronny Paulino, Terry Collins, Yonder Alonso 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 Nevertheless, we will tire of Carlos Beltran. Let me be the first to welcome him to Flushing and show him the door. Not for at least five years, I hope, but it’ll happen. He or his swing will slow down. The strange breezes and thunderous flight path to LaGuardia will get to him. He won’t […] The Mets were horrible again. Stripped of a flu-ridden Carlos Beltran in addition to everybody else, they made Clay Hensley look like a shoo-in for Cooperstown, mustering one cosmetic run in falling to the just-passing-through Marlins. Though, in fairness, they got an assist from Angel Hernandez, everybody’s favorite umpire. With two outs in the third, Chris […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Brooklyn Cyclones, Jose Reyes, Umpiring Not everything about Friday’s night trip to Citi Field was terrible. Let me make a list of things that did not, in fact, suck: 1. It was nice spending an inning on the Shea Bridge with two old friends: longtime Faith and Fear reader Charlie Hangley (who’s now a pretty fair blogger in his own right […] Funny, Frankie Rodriguez gets traded and I keep thinking about Omar Minaya. And not entirely in a negative way, either. In thinking about the confounding yet entertaining 2011 Mets, you can’t miss that a number of the team’s more encouraging success stories — Jonathon Niese, Daniel Murphy, R.A. Dickey, Dillon Gee, Justin Turner and Ruben Tejada — […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Frankie Rodriguez, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson Honesty compels me to admit it wasn’t really Mike Pelfrey’s fault. My 2011 designated scapegoat pitched OK; his teammates let him down with a second straight evening of shaky defense and a distressing inability to collect hits when they were most needed. The Beard wound up Feared, the Mets lost, and a West Coast trip that […] Some games are taut testaments to the majesty of baseball when it’s played at the highest possible level by the best players in the world. And other games are just fun. Tonight’s opening tilt with the Giants certainly wasn’t a taut testament to anything, not with balls being misplayed and dopey stuff on the bases and grousing […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Michaels, Bob Costas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Bochy, Giants, Ike Davis, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston Fate took Johan Santana away, and we wondered if the season would be lost. It hasn’t been. Then Fate came for Ike Davis, and we feared the same. But the Mets kept plugging along. Then David Wright heard the knock at the door. The Mets kept rolling. Now Jose Reyes is detained by Bad Luck, we hope only […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Dodgers, Don Mattingly, Greg Gibson, Injuries, Jonathon Niese, Rafael Furcal, Terry Collins |
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