 
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. |
From innings one through five on Tuesday night, a perfect game took hold at Citi Field. From the sixth through ninth, four more perfect innings were thrown. Selective arithmetic indicates twenty-seven batters came up, twenty-seven batters went down in something approximating succession. More down than up, per usual, for the New York Mets, noted perfectionists when […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aces, Austin Warren, Byron Buxton, Devin Williams, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Home Run Celebrations, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streak, Matt Harvey, Nolan McLean, Perfect Game Bids, The Moon, Tom Seaver, Twins The New York Mets, entering Saturday’s matinee as losers of nine in a row, intermittently overcame some of what was stacked against them. The wind was blowing in at Wrigley Field, but Mark Vientos ripped a fly ball so hard that it landed well over the fence in the top of the second inning. That […] “The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists though civilization’s sunset. We watch the catastrophe unfold, refusing to fully admit our doom…” Today I decided the Mets would win a ballgame. They were playing the Cubs on a Friday afternoon […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kodai Senga, Lineups, Losing Streaks, MJ Melendez, Positive Thinking, Sean Manaea, Summerlike Weather, The Wind Blowing Out, Wrigley Field “And it’s one more day up in the canyon,” Adam Duritz observed joylessly some thirty years ago, “and it’s one more night in Hollywood.” In that same chilly Southern California spirit, here’s to no more nights in Chavez Ravine. The doubly defending world champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, extended their winning ways not once, not twice, […] A button at the end of one of my favorite Mad Men episodes has been circulating through my head ever since Opening Day. Don has come home to discover young Sally is still freaked out by the appearance of her new little brother Gene. Dad has to sell daughter on the notion that this infant […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carson Benge, Craig Kimbrel, Dicky Lovelady, Freddy Peralta, Identity, Joey Gerber, Life Expectancy, Luis Garcia, Mad Men, Recidivist Mets, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham We once had a Squirrel, or should I say, last night he had us. I’ll cop to a touch of Jeff McNeil nostalgia after our longtime second baseman/first-rate handyman returned to Citi Field from the wilds of West Sacramento to take a bite out of his former workplace associates on Friday, getting hot at the plate […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Max Muncy, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Shea Langeliers It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game started three hours earlier than originally slated due to frigid conditions at Citi Field, but that happened the day before, so…no, not that interesting nor noteworthy. It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game got all nine tops of innings pitched by […] “This is Ellis Island here, people. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, whether your relatives came over on the fucking Mayflower or on an inner tube from Haiti. This right here is the land of opportunity.” Tom Seaver was from Fresno, California. Bud Harrelson and Tug McGraw […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Devin Williams, Global Game, Huascar Brazoban, International Flavor, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Metropolitan-American, Soccer, The Wolf of Wall Street, World Baseball Classic Met victories were so plentiful Friday night in San Francisco — for the club as a whole, for Nolan McLean, for power hitting, for clutch hitting, for remaining awake — that one is tempted to relegate to footnote status the little matter of Juan Soto exiting the game early with tightness in his right calf […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Calf Injuries, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Perfect Game Bids, Superstition When the Mets aren’t winning every day, everything they are doing badly glares, while everything they are doing well hardly matters to us. The Mets aren’t winning every day. Everything, therefore, feels terrible. The starting pitchers are doing well, doing the most you could reasonably ask for, at any rate. None of them hasn’t lasted less […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basic Arithmetic, Freddy Peralta, Juan Soto, Runners Left in Scoring Position, Seasons That Start Too Soon |
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