 
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. |
It’s not surprising that they lost. Losing is what they do. They’ve lost more often than they’ve won as a matter of course for five going on six seasons. On May 31, 2009, buoyed by a week of having played teams who seemed indisputably lousier than them (Washington and Florida), the New York Mets stood seven […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arietta, Losing, Nate Schierholtz, Team History, Zack Wheeler Aesthetics aside, the Mets’ extended residency in Philadelphia is going pretty well: three of four games have been captured, with one still waiting to be bagged. We’ve seen what Jonathon Niese can do for eight innings when his bullpen needs as much of a blow as he can provide it, we’ve seen how far Lucas […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, AJ Mass, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Juan Lagares, Mascots, Mr. Met, Nickelodeon Extreme Baseball, Phillie Phanatic “It doesn’t work that way,” I had to explain to my sister over dinner out when she inferred I must really be enjoying how long these baseball games my baseball team has been playing, including the one I was listening to while she was talking. “You probably wish they’d last eight hours!” she said, as innocent […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A.J. Burnett, Anniversaries, Bobby Abreu, Buddy Carlyle, Ed Sudol, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Manship, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Pace, Team History I saw mention of the sports fan pejorative “bandwagon” last night in the wake of the New York Rangers skating their way into the Stanley Cup Finals. Those who are not inclined to root for the Rangers scoffed at the onslaught of their opposite numbers who weren’t necessarily so bold and brassy when shots on […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bandwagons, Chris Young, Hockey, Jenrry Mejia, Scott Rice, Vic Black, Zack Wheeler Can ya hear us, Pittsburgh? After spending a slice of my Tuesday afternoon listening to Dave Hudgens complain about “negativity” and Sandy Alderson indicate he can’t spend more money on players until it is liberated from True New Yorkers’ pockets, a dispassionate consumer of Mets baseball might have been ready to devote his time […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Hudgens, Jenrry Mejia, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Mets Fans, Passion, Sandy Alderson, True New Yorkers, Vic Black When your team has been immersed in an era of losing, your main ambition for them is that they start winning. Or at least stop losing more than they win. Nobody aspires to be .500 unless you can’t get and stay there. We haven’t gotten there and then beyond it for keeps since 2008. Hence, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Banner Day, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, Doubleheaders, Rafael Montero, Ralph Kiner Three weeks ago in our time, 45 years ago in their time, Freddie Rumsen directed his bottom-of-the-bottle pal Don Draper to get off the booze and “do the work”. On Saturday, Zack Wheeler did the work, which is to say he labored so hard through six-and-two-thirds innings that Howie Rose repeatedly invoked the P-word to […] Social work professionals would probably refer to Murray Hysen as a support system. My friend Jeff simply called him “Dad”. He was the dad who took Jeff to his first Mets game at the age of eight, the dad who sent Jeff to Mets fantasy camp as a fiftieth birthday present. Murray passed away last […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Murray Hysen It must have been a sportswriter who came up with that line about ballplayers you’d pay to see since baseball writers don’t pay to see baseball. In that spirit, since I didn’t pay to see Thursday night’s game, I will detour to Cliché Stadium and declare I’d pay good money to see Yasiel Puig play […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Dodgers, Eric Campbell, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Media, Yasiel Puig If there’s no clock in baseball, why is the time of game listed? Seems antithetical to the spirit of the enterprise. Then again, Shea Stadium’s original scoreboard reserved prominent space for a clock bearing the Longines logo, and later its auxiliary scoreboards flashed the digital time from Armitron. If we truly weren’t supposed to be […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Josh Beckett, Marathons, Team History, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Time |
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