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 […]
 
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 |  Anthony Swarzak, Austin Jackson, Extra Innings, Farce, Jack Reinheimer, Jason Vargas, Jose Lobaton, Jose Reyes, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Paul Sewald I usually have a favorite player, but as a grown man how I acquire one has changed. It’s impossible, for instance, for me to make heroes out of young men who could quite literally be my own children. And I’ve learned too much else about the game and life to put anyone on a pedestal. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Hope, Mathematically Eliminated, Michale Conforto I’ve been to Fenway Park before — in fact, a few years ago I discovered that I saw my first-ever baseball game there, dandled (presumably) on my mother’s knee for a Red Sox-Tigers tilt in 1970 or so. I was back in the late 1990s, but with relatively few parks under my belt, my impressions […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brock Holt, Corey Oswalt, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Fenway Park, Jackie Bradley Jr., Paul Sewald, Red Sox, Rick Porcello, Steven Wright, Yankees Suck The Mets and Marlins were supposed to play two baseball games starting at 4:10 pm, but at 4:10 pm it was raining. Not particularly hard — you could almost call it Corey Oswalt weather — but hard enough. It stayed that way through 5:10 pm, through 6:10 pm, through the time the Mets would have played […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Doubleheaders, Jay Bruce, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Zack Wheeler Bravo to all the stalwarts who came out to Citi Field on a night water droplets were falling from the sky, accompanied by hits sprinkling a perplexed Noah Syndergaard. Winter-hat night seemed perfectly well timed. Imagine the attendance if a certain third baseman who most definitely is not experiencing a rift with his employeers, no […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jerry Blevins, Noah Syndergaard, Pennant Race, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido Wednesday evening found me driving back to New York after dropping my kid off at school north of Boston. The rental-car place closed at 9; if things broke my way and I drove more speedily than I’m now accustomed, I could make it. Maybe. Perhaps. If I pushed it. I decided to go for it; traffic […] Somewhere around the midpoint of today’s Mets-Giants game, I was asked what’s been wrong with Noah Syndergaard this year. I wasn’t sure what to say. After all, there Noah was, throwing 99 MPH fastballs and 92 MPH sliders. There he was pushing for his 10th win pitching for a terrible team, and mowing down Giant after […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jeff McNeil, Noah Syndergaard Let’s be clear about one thing after a day where clarity was sadly lacking: Zack Wheeler was wonderful. Wheeler’s blossoming is one of the unalloyed positives to come out of this weirdly bitter Mets season: Wheeler seems to have shaken off injuries and rust and youth to become the top-flight starter we’d imagined since he arrived. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aramis Garcia, Chris Shaw, Communications, David Wright, Giants, One-Car Funerals, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler How can you have a recap when you don’t have a final score yet? When that final score’s yet to be recorded but the show everyone came to see is over. That’s how. No offense to Seth Lugo, Steve Cishek or whatever Met and Cub relievers follow them when the game resumes, tied 1-1, in the 10th. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Jackson, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Javy Baez, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Rain Delays, Suspended Games I really thought I had MLB At Bat licked. Volunteer duties and a kayaking trip kept me away from the Mets’ matinee against the Nats (I know, smallest of violins) and my post-vacation brain forgot to set the DVR to record the game. So when I arrived home a little before 8, my path to semi-responsible […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, Disappointment, Fans, MLB At Bat, Montreal Expos, Nationals, Paul Sewald, Steven Matz, Tyler Bashlor |
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