Americans are notoriously horrible at geography, but citizens of Metsopotamia are surely map-savvy enough to be able to distinguish the city of Denver from the city of Washington. If you can’t deal with a map, just try a set of National League standings. The baseball team that hails from Denver, Colo., is lodged at the […]
 
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. |
 16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Caps, Jeff Wilpon, Leigh Castergine, Mets Fan Instinct, Nationals In a few minutes, I shall require a diversion. Where there is deGrom, there is delight. Stadiums can sit all but empty, standings can tease with cruelty, seasons can run out of sand as captains cede reluctantly to the inevitable, but when you have a young starting pitcher who doesn’t give up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Attendance, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Rich Chiles, Tommie Agee When Saturday’s one-run loss to the Reds was over, it was easy to pinpoint the most obviously pivotal play. It happened at third base in the ninth inning, when Eric Young, who has somehow stolen 29 bases in a season when it feels like he’s played in maybe 29 games, was called safe by Alfonso […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Donald Lutz, Eric Young, Jorge Toca, Terry Collins, Tim Teufel, Video Review What’s worse than being a team that hasn’t been good for the longest time? In the moment, probably being a team that was pretty good not so long ago yet is now experiencing the falling out of its bottom. That situation described the Mets by this time of year in 1991 and 2002, and the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, Dana Eveland, High Fidelity, Reds Over the past three games, the sub-.500 Mets have scored 20 runs and allowed 20 runs against the sub-.500 teams directly adjacent to them in the standings. It’s been like a sporadically entertaining round-robin of mediocrity. But they’ve won two of these three games, which is good news for those still keeping track of the Mets’ […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Metropolitan Hospitality, September, U.S. Open I attended Curtis Granderson Bobblehead Night despite feeling no affinity whatsoever for Curtis Granderson as a New York Met. My bobble-enthusiast friend Joe talked me into going. By “talked into,” I mean he had to ask twice. Usually it’s just once. Curtis Granderson Bobblehead Night coincided with a hollow 7-2 loss to Philadelphia that coincided with Granderson […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Beer, Bobbleheads, Branden, Curtis Granderson, Marlon Byrd Anybody who knows his or her Brady Bunch will remember when Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy formed a singing group in order to go on the Pete Sterne Amateur Hour and win the money to buy their parents a sparkly anniversary present. They named their act after the gift they had their eye on: […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anderson Hernandez, Bob Apodaca, Bob L. Miller, Dilson Herrera, Grady Sizemore, Jack Aker, Jacob deGrom, Lee Mazzilli, Miguel Cairo, Phillies, Recidivist Mets, Stability, Stealing Home, Team History, The Brady Bunch There were nearly as few available Mets as there were visible Mets fans at Citi Field Wednesday night. The “25-man roster” was as hyperbolic a calculation as “paid attendance of 22,014”. Terry Collins fielded a Quadruple-A lineup, relied on a three-man bench and came up a run short of victory. On the plus side, boy was […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, August, Braves, Left Field Landing, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores We gather today to mourn the passing of our spherical brother Rawlings Official Major League Baseball, or as he was known to those who watched him in action, Rawly. In many ways, Rawly was just like you and me, stitched together from the same materials that comprise us all. His most basic chemistry was standard-issue. Science […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Juan Lagares, Juan Lagares's Glove, Where Fly Balls Go To Die Did I hear the manager of the Mets say he expects his team to lose more often than it wins? I did. I watched the postgame show on SNY Sunday after a rousing 11-3 win. I stayed tuned for the media scrum with Terry Collins, which, by dint of logistics, appears less stage-managed on the road […] |
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