 
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. |
Daniel Murphy made an error. You probably noticed. Murph’s error came in a house-of-horrors eighth inning at Citi Field, a frame that’s an excellent candidate to take up residence in the recesses of your brain, to be hauled out and fumed over at future 3 AMs. But Murph wasn’t the only thing going bump in the night on what became a Halloween […]  126 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Bad Fans, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Disasters, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Royals, Terry Collins, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes I love the way the Kansas City Royals play baseball. They’re impossible to strike out, they pressure defenses on the basepaths, and they play a wild-eyed, high-stepping game. Which is pretty much the way they look on infield defense too, smothering balls and getting filthy and recording outs. It’s exciting, fun stuff. The only problem with that — […] 48 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Fans, Jacob deGrom, Royals The Mets have used a simple formula to get past the Dodgers and 3/4 of the way past the Cubs: Combine great starting pitching with a shutdown ninth inning. It’s worked pretty well … but the Mets are adding ingredients to the recipe. We’ll get back to the latest legends of Murphtober and […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Wrigley Field, Yoenis Cespedes The physicist Leonard Mlodinow has something to say about baseball narratives. This is from The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (via this Freaknonomics post): …if one team is good enough to warrant beating another in 55% of its games, the weaker team will nevertheless win a seven-game series about four times out of 10. And […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Juan Lagares, Kyle Schwarber, Matt Harvey, Travis d'Arnaud Baseball is a game played nine to a side, with wheeling motion and shifting fielding assignments and set plays and so much else. But each play starts not with nine people doing multiple things, but with one person doing one thing: The pitcher takes the ball and throws it in the direction of home plate. When […] 59 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Citi Field, Clayton Kershaw, David Wright, Dodgers, Ed Charles, Justin Turner, Ron Swoboda, Steven Matz A while back I declared that we’d already won, and anything else that came our way would be lagniappe — games stolen from wintertime. That wasn’t an attempted reverse jinx (though I’m far from above such things) — I meant it. The postseason’s a crapshoot but gets all the attention; the regular season’s the prize, but the […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Clayton Kershaw, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dodgers, Fans, Fear, Jacob deGrom, Joy, Pedro Baez Back in June, Emily and I decided that a lovely summer night would be made even better by our attending a ballgame. So we did … and watched the Mets get no-hit by Chris Heston and the San Francisco Giants. I grumbled and groaned for competitive and aesthetic reasons. The competitive reasons for not wanting my […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Billy Beane, Chris Heston, Dodgers, Max Scherzer, Nationals, No-Hitters, Panic City Several times this winter, I’ll sigh and tell my wife how I’d do anything to watch any baseball game — even say, a June snoozer pitting the Brewers against the D-Backs. I’ll mean it, of course — nothing comforts me while staring out the window and waiting for spring. Not winter ball, not Mets Classics, not hot-stove […] I’ll admit this: I never thought Fred Wilpon’s line about meaningful games in September was so embarrassing. Granted, I would have revised the line to “meaningful games in the last week of September.” If you’re playing those, your team’s kept you scoreboard watching, hoping and dreaming almost until the end, which I’ll always sign up for. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Kauffman Stadium, New Busch Stadium, Royals
It’s not a new story any more. In fact it’s a well-worn tale on its way to becoming a cliche. But that’s the fate of stories that resonate with people, that mean something. And this one does. It’s the one I keep coming back to. And it’s worth hearing again. It’s the story of Wilmer Flores, sent […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, David Wright, Faith, Fans, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores |
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