The Mets kept their heartbeat faint but detectable by beating the Reds on Sunday afternoon — a game I started listening to on the Tripper Bus back from D.C. and that ended with me standing in my living room in Brooklyn. (First comment: “I know they’re throwbacks, but the Reds really need to retire those […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  BABIP, Brad Brach, Brandon Nimmo, Eugenio Suarez, J.D. Davis, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Reds, Wild Card While watching Tuesday night’s game against the Rockies, I thought of a good idea and immediately decided I wanted nothing to do with it for a while. The idea came from the shame bell in Game of Thrones, which you may know as an Internet meme even if you’re not familiar with the show. I was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso The ample lady of renown may not be singing quite yet, but I heard another singer last night. Not exactly a matinee idol, this one — he had a puffy face, jet-black hair, and big black-rimmed Coke-bottle glasses. But his voice was a rich burr that rose to an unearthly falsetto. It’s over, it’s over, it’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Coors Field, J.D. Davis, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Steven Matz, Trevor Story Let me take you back a little ways, to a not-long-ago iteration of the National League wild-card chase. The Diamondbacks were destiny’s new darlings, winning night after night and all set up for a run at the postseason, with the easiest schedule of any of the remaining contenders. As for the Mets, they were dead and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Juan Lagares, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Wild Card Ready to kick that football, Mets fans? I’m not talking about the unasked-for arrival of a certain inferior sport before its time. Rather, I’m talking about Lucy Van Pelt and her ongoing invitation for Charlie Brown to kick the football she’s holding. Lucy, you probably remember, invariably yanked the football away, causing poor Charlie Brown to let […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Hope, Robbie Ray, Steven Matz, Wild Card Eighteen years ago, I added a new team to my consciousness. The Brooklyn Cyclones weren’t actually a new club. They were the old St. Catharines Stompers, and spent the summer of 2000 as the Queens Kings, affiliated with the Blue Jays but owned by the Mets and playing before basically nobody at St. John’s. That was […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Edwards, Antoine Duplantis, Brooklyn Cyclones, Championships, Edgardo Alfonzo, Fans, Jake Mangum, Joe Davis, Justin Wilson, Lowell Spinners, Marino Campana, MCU Park, Mitch Ragan, Pete Alonso, Ranfy Adon, Wilmer Flores, Yoel Romero How would you describe Friday night’s Mets game? Thrilling? Reaffirming? Anxious? Horrifying? Maybe all of the above? I spent most of the evening not knowing what to think, with good and bad arriving one after the other. For openers, I wondered when I started trusting Steven Matz. Matz hasn’t had a bad outing in more than a month, […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, J.T. Realmuto, Justin Wilson, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Steven Matz The Mets were on YouTube Wednesday. I have no idea how that went, which is probably for the best, since that was a game crying out for some combination of Gary, Keith and Ron to provide perspective and perhaps solace, following the absurd bullshit of Tuesday night. The two factoids that will haunt me: The […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Howie Rose, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Radio, Seth Lugo, Wayne Randazzo, Wilson Ramos With the Mets in a pennant race again, I’ve been remembering all the little stresses that come with meaningful games in September. Here’s one of them: Getting to within an hour or two of the game and thinking that this could be Execution Day — the day where, if they don’t win, you can pretty much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joe Panik, Joe Ross, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera Sometimes life — by which I mean, “that stuff scheduled around baseball games” — gets in the way. First there was dinner, then a podcast interview. I moved what I could thanks to the kindness of other folks involved, but only so much movement was possible, and the Mets would have to take a back seat […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Daniel Zamora, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Scott Kingery, Zach Eflin |
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