Like any properly focused Mets fan, I’ve followed the American League playoff picture with the same overarching desire with which I’ve followed every American League playoff picture: rooting for the Yankees to be eliminated from it. (Request to anybody who wants to chime in with haughty declarations regarding the insignificance of this outcome to overall […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1999 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Robin Ventura, White Sox By predictably losing on Sunday — between Kris Medlen’s streak and Chipper Jones’s farewell, I had next to no doubt about the outcome at Turner Field — the 73-86 Mets made certain their record in 2012 will not be as good as their record was in 2011 (77-85), which wasn’t as good as their record […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Kris Medlen, Progress, Resolve Game Six against the Red Sox. The Steve Henderson Game. The Marlon Anderson Game. The Rob Gardner-Chris Short Double Shutout that went 18 innings and was terminated by curfew. The Largest Comeback in Mets History, at the Astrodome, when an 8-0 deficit became an 11-8 win. The Mets have played some great Saturday night games in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chipper Jones, Cholula Hot Sauce, Chris Young, Craig Kimbrel, Gary Cohen, Jason Bay, Keith Hernandez, Mike Minor, Saturday Night, Scott Hairston, SNY “My goal each time I go out there is to put up a quality start, to give the team a chance to win. When I walk off the mound and our team has a chance to win, that’s satisfaction for me.” Jon Niese is so uninteresting an interview that he thinks introspection is something that […] You see a lot more meanness in the city The sun is setting on our boys of summer. They’ll be sending their best from Atlanta and Miami for the next six days, and I’ll […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20 Wins, Closing Day, Jerry Seinfeld, Matthew Broderick, R.A. Dickey, Rod Barajas, Travis Snider Ed Kranepool will never again seem quite as impressive in the Met imagination after David Wright records one more single, double, triple or home run and owns outright the franchise base hit record. David tied Eddie last night at 1,418. It’s a relatively small number as all-time team marks go and it will look smaller […] (Before moving on to our usual fun and games, our deepest thoughts and absolute best wishes go out to Shannon Forde, one of the true shining lights of the Mets organization and a great friend to the blogging community, as she battles to beat Stage IV breast cancer. Please visit Hope Shines For Shannon and […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin McHugh, David Wright, Jenrry Mejia, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, September, Shannon Forde, T-shirts Think you like Ike now? At least as good a reason as his two homers and five RBIs last night to applaud Mr. Davis is the commitment he’s made to support Solving Kids’ Cancer and the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative with his annual fundraising events. The most recent of them took place a couple of […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative, Solving Kids' Cancer I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays Despite being eliminated from mathematical or any other kind of contention Thursday night, the New York Mets remained on the ballot for this past weekend’s series against the Miami Marlins, and son of a gun, we finally swept ourselves some Flushing caucuses. So let’s say that instead of ending our 2012 campaign, we are laying […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Concession Speeches, Davey Johnson, Gary Thorne, George Steinbrenner, Jock, Nationals, Orioles, September |
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