 
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. |
I’ve never felt more like Jack Buck after returning home from a ballgame, for “I don’t believe that I don’t know what I just saw!” Did I see the Mets play the Marlins? Pretty sure I did. That was important to me, as, entering Thursday, I had not seen the Mets play the Marlins in person […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Astounding Lack of Resolution, David Peterson, Marlins, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Suspended Games, The Log • The Mets lost, 5-2, at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday night, completing a weekend in which there was a definitive milestone of futility planted every step along the way. Sunday’s wasn’t as momentous as clinching a losing record (Thursday), being mathematically eliminated from postseason contention (Friday) or assuring the 2023 Mets would drop further […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Kay, Cristopher Sanchez, Elimination Day, Jose Butto, Orion Kerkering, Peyton Battenfield, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Sheadenfreude, Sweeps, USF Bulls, Yankees The Mets haven’t been on the wrong end of any lopsided beatdowns this depressing weekend in Philadelphia, so we haven’t heard any wizened press box wag offer in a Burgess Meredith rasp the old chestnut that if this were a fight, somebody woulda stopped it by now. If these games were fights, at least the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Boxing, Brandon Nimmo, Burgess Meredith, Fight, Johan Rojas, Rocky Balboa, Ronny Mauricio, Scoring Systems, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Trea Turner, Zack Wheeler Anyway, it’s turned cold and rainy here lately, but I like winter. Pending iffy weather, the Mets are positioned to carve a statistical triptych of despair this afternoon in Philadelphia. Thursday night, they clinched a losing record for the season. Friday night, they were […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Brett Baty, Dillon Gee, Historical Plunges, Mathematically Eliminated, Sideways, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Team History, The Years After, Tylor Megill Despite indications it might never happen in the course of a year that had only just begun, in their seventh game of 2023, the Mets (3-4) fell below .500 for the first time. So much for white lace and promises. In their 61st game of 2023, the Mets (30-31) fell below .500 for what turned out […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Discouraging Long-Term Trends, Fifteen-Year Periods, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Team History, The Carpenters, Under .500 In memory of the late Dennis D’Agostino and his classic book, This Date in New York Mets History, let’s remember what the Mets were up to on this date — September 20 — fifty years ago, in 1973. It was time to carefully remove the m-word from the ark in which it had been kept undisturbed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 50th Anniversary, Channel 9, Cleon Jones, Ron Hodges, Wayne Garrett He may not have had the spelling quite right 46 summers ago, but Marvin Gaye foresaw Tuesday night’s ninth inning in Miami at…I know what it’s called, but I’m not in the mood to acknowledge it Park. After struggling to convert baserunners into runs, and balls hit at them into outs, the Mets dramatically pulled […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Diner, Headaches, Joey Lucchesi, Marlins, Marvin Gaye, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Time-Released Revenge, Trevor Gott Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […] Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late: • Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL! • A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball? • Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Stewart, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Arauz, Kodai Senga, Mets Fandom Like It Oughta Be, September, Skid Rowe What had been a bad week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York is now a promising week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York. At the very least, nobody should be sacking and tearing David Stearns’s Achilles tendon in the days ahead. Never mind Aaron Rodgers and never mind the 2023 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, David Stearns, Next Era, POBO, Potential Saviors |
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