 
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. |
What if the secret of making the Mets better is being mean to them? No, not by forcing them to play a new position, letting them rot on the bench, warming them up too often and not putting them in a game, not putting them in a game for weeks, letting injuries linger without DL stints, […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Fans, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Kevin Plawecki, Nationals, Nicknames, The Jason Vargas Index The Mets won an actually fun game Wednesday night: Noah Syndergaard looked solid for six innings, Jeff McNeil kept hitting, and three Mets (Todd Frazier, Dom Smith and Jose Bautista) cracked solo home runs as the forces of good kept the Giants down. Entertaining games in garbage time are better than games to be endured, which […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard Most of Tuesday night unfolded the way most of Monday night had: we watched a Mets team at home doing a worrisome amount of nothing. Steven Matz gave up a two-run shot in the first inning, then settled down and looked much more like himself, though it should be said that we still don’t quite know […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Jeff McNeil, Steven Matz, Wilmer Flores There’s a reflexive wariness in listening to discussions of great pitchers of other eras, a little voice that pipes up to remind you that while those hurlers were undoubtedly amazing, stories have a way of growing in the telling. I saw Bob Gibson strike out 22 Reds during a tornado that tore the facade right off […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Carlos Santana, Cy Young, Great American Ball Park, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Nationals Park, Nick Williams, Phillies, PNC Park, Reds, Rhys Hoskins, Wilson Ramos Joy of excess? Oh baby, we hadn’t seen anything yet. Game 1 of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Phils was a rain of records, superlatives and astonished exclamations. Twenty-four runs, a new club record. Twenty-five hits, a new club record for a nine-inning game. A 20-run margin of victory, also a new club record. Weirdly, the crazy 24-4 outburst […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armour Field, Ballparks, Brandon Nimmo, Camden Yards, Doubleheaders, Franchise Records, Guaranteed Rate Field, Janet Marie Smith, Jerry Blevins, Jose Bautista, Philip Bess, Phillies, Position Players Pitching, Ranger Suarez, Scott Kingery, Steven Matz, White Sox, Wrigley Field If the Orioles played us every day, they’d be 162-0. Seriously, this is getting to be a bit much. The Orioles need the Hubble telescope to see fourth place, let alone the top of the standings, but they’ve had no problem handling us this year. On Tuesday Jason Vargas pitched decently enough, but I still maintain there’s no […] How many ways, exactly, can one game be a make-up date? The obvious: the Mets and Yankees reported for duty in the Bronx to complete the July half of this year’s Subway Series, which had been erased by rain. Despite an extremely wet morning in New York and a brief in-game squall, the second try proceeded […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, ESPN, Jacob deGrom, Keith Olbermann, Rain, Yankees Off-day? What off-day? Today brings Jacob deGrom vs. the Yankees, a rematch caused by rain. Which as I type this is blanketing New York again, with more to come. There’s an easy line about the elements being too tough an enemy for even the mighty Sir Jake, except that the mighty Sir Jake routinely is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Garbage Time, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Seth Lugo, Sleep I was supposed to be writing this recap at home, finally returned from an eight-day jaunt that took me to six states and five ballparks (four of them new), with a side of genealogy dorkery. But that was before Biblical rains descended on New York, blanketing it in radar bands of creeping green, bubbling yellow […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryan Holaday, Corey Oswalt, Dan Straily, Ed Hickox, Jacob Rhame, Jeff McNeil, Marlins, Paul Sewald, Tayron Guerrero The Braves beat the Mets, 4-2. Wilmer Flores short-circuited an inning by ill-advisedly trying to take second on a little bobble in center by Ronald Acuna Jr. He was safe, giving the Mets runners on second and third with one out, until the umps huddled and ruled he was in fact out, leaving the Mets […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Disappointment, Garbage Time, Wilmer Flores |
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