 
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. |
Have you ever seen anything like Jay Bruce? Once, maybe. Like most precedents, it’s inexact. Unlike most precedents, this one had physical proximity going for it. On Wednesday night — a night when the Mets’ starting pitcher pitched into the eighth instead of the fifth and the Mets’ manager used three relievers instead of all of […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, 2004 Mets, Jay Bruce, Precedent, SNY, Team History, Todd Zeile As soon as Sunday’s game ended horribly, I thought of a similar four-game weekend road series. The Mets won the first game then, too; everything that had been going great felt even more wonderful. Then they lost the next three in varying shades of excruciating. The dates were July 17-20 in 1986, which should tell […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Bad Weekends, Dan Straily, J.T. Riddle, Matt Harvey, Stupid Marlins, Vexing Losses It would have been nice had somebody gotten three outs without giving up three runs in the eighth inning of a Jackie Robinson Night celebration that rapidly deteriorated into, as a Twitter correspondent of mine so aptly put it, the Bummer of 42. Jacob deGrom…Fernando Salas…Jerry Blevins…the Easter Bunny…whoever. That remains my takeaway ample hours […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Salas, Jackie Robinson, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Managerial Decisions Gone Awry, Terry Collins, Unknowables You can’t win them all? Seriously? That’s a thing? That’s a thing. It may be an unwritten rule, but it appears inviolable. Despite five consecutive days during which it felt as if the Mets would never lose again, they lost on Friday night. The defeat unleashed a sensation previously experienced less than a week before, yet […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Failure to Win Them All, Fingernails, Josh Edgin, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard A grand slam? The Marlins thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam? Hey, Marlins, I got a team I wanna introduce you to: the Phillies. The Phillies thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam. Hey, Phillies, tell the Marlins how that worked out. Yeah, I thought so. The Phillies […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Hernandez, Brett Gardner, Brian Johnson, Chipper Jones, Darren Daulton, Ernest Riles, Grand Slams, Hansel Robles, Hubie Brooks, Jason Thompson, Jay Bruce, Jody Davis, Maikel Franco, Marathons, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Melvin Nieves, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Neil Walker, Opponent Grand Slams in Mets Wins, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, Ryan Jackson, Team History, Terry Puhl, Todd Helton, Tom Goodwin, Travis d'Arnaud, Vic Davalillo, Willie Stargell, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks, Yoenis Cespedes During the first game Wednesday, the Mets scored practically at will. Michael Conforto, newly anointed leadoff hitter for however long Terry Collins can resist sitting him, was a perfect fit at the top of the order, singling in the first, homering in the third. Yoenis Cespedes was Yoenis Cespedes for a second consecutive night. Asdrubal Cabrera was […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Emotional Abyss, Hansel Robles, Michael Conforto, Relief Pitching, Ryan Howard, Winning Streak, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler When Yoenis Cespedes re-accommodated yet another baseball over a relatively distant fence five innings into Wednesday night’s beatdown of Philadelphia, I was quite pleased. Really, I was. I glanced up from my tablet, mentioned aloud, “Hey that’s his third,” and, I’m pretty sure, raised a fist slightly above my right ear to further signify my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Home Runs, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Passover, Ray Ramirez, Ren & Stimpy, Travis d'Arnaud, Ty Kelly, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes Zack Wheeler was back Friday and not nearly as good as ever. To be backhandedly fair, the Zack we once knew wasn’t yet as great as he was projected to be, but he sure seemed to be getting there. His trajectory was reasonable for a freshman and sophomore of his ilk. Two steps up, one […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kelvin Chapman, Patience, Paul Sewald, Rudy, Ty Kelly, Zack Wheeler As the Long Island Rail Road was depositing me and several hundred like-minded individuals at what is still the Shea Stadium stop as far as I’m concerned late on Monday morning, I thought of all the metaphors suitable to occasions like Opening Day. A blank slate. A clean piece of paper. A coat of white […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, De Facto Designated Hitter, Eric O'Flaherty, Familiar Faces, Glenn Sherlock, Julio Teheran, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Six Feet Under, Wilmer Flores Spring Training’s final public act was cancelled Friday when rain washed away a game against the United States Military Academy, a.k.a. Army, at Citi Field, an exhibition that was going to be carried out at West Point until the playing conditions at Doubleday Field at Johnson Stadium were deemed harmful for major leaguers and other […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allegiances, Buffalo Bisons, Casey Stengel, Fans, Jimmy Breslin, Long Island, New York, Quinnipiac, Rheingold, Surveys, Team History, Transitory Popularity, West Point |
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