There was a midweek day game peeking out at me from behind a corner. That’s usually how I peek in at midweek day games. The TV in my office isn’t something I can watch full-on directly from my desk; thanks to the modern-enough set’s placement inside an ancient, undersized “entertainment center,” I can only be […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Commuting, Jonah Tong, Midweek Afternoon Games, Pete Alonso, Trains The fans try so hard. I can say that as an observer rather than as a participant on Saturday, sitting as I was in the zone of detached decorum known as Citi Field’s press box. I couldn’t react, except in my head, to every entreaty from the A/V squad that urged the crowd to keep […] Jacob deGrom versus Jonah Tong. The Jonah Tong of the past versus the Jacob DeGrom of the future. The Met pitching prospect who excelled amid a glittering class of his promising peers versus the Met pitching prospect at the outset of a journey he’s pursuing alongside those possessing arms full of potential like his. It was […] What a spectacular top of the first inning in Philadelphia Thursday night! And what a moving eight innings of respectful silence in the top halves of each frame that followed. That was pretty much that where the current Mets were concerned in their sixth consecutive loss. Thus, let us turn our attention to Mets of yore. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, Art Shamsky, Benny Agbayani, Ed Kranepool, Harrison Bader, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jim Bethke, Jim Marshall, Mets Alumni, Moment of Silence, Todd Zeile PHILADELPHIA (FAF) — Analysts are theorizing the New York Mets may be organizing an illegal and possibly immoral “stealth boycott” of the 2025 Major League Baseball postseason and are coming closer every day to their goal of not participating in the upcoming championship tournament. By losing their fourth consecutive game on Tuesday night, 9-3, at Citizens […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Conspiracy Theories, Losing, Unwanted Flashbacks A few months ago, I watched an episode of American Masters devoted to Liza Minnelli. One of those attesting to her brilliance as an entertainer and warmth as a human being was the actor Darren Criss, who related Liza’s reaction to a group get-together he considered himself lucky to be a part of: “She’s grabbing […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Brandon Sproat, Generation MST3K, Liza Minnelli One of the benefits of paying very close attention to one specific entity for a very long time is you pick up on trends that might be apparent to you and only you. One of the benefits of having a platform like this is the opportunity to remark upon those trends. Here’s my picked-up-on trend of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ABC Network Promotional Jingles, Davey Johnson, Edwin Diaz, Generation MST3K, Great American Ball Park, Jeurys Familia, Moment of Silence, September, Shoes, Trends “Until you’ve been beside a man,” Detroit’s own Bob Seger wailed mournfully, “you don’t know what he wants.” And until you have a high-profile reliever on your team, you don’t know what he is. For the Cardinals, Ryan Helsley was lights out. For the Mets, he turns them off on his own team. Had Helsley done […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arrested Development, Bob Seger, Capable, Clay Holmes, Jose Castillo, Likable, Ordinary, Ryan Helsley, Special The trumpeter who scores the postgame scurry to the 7 on Mets Plaza made an interesting musical choice in the minutes following the fresh 5-1 loss the Marlins had inflicted upon the Mets inside Citi Field. He played “Auld Lang Syne,” a number usually reserved for December 31 rather than August 31. I wondered if […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, August, Auld Lang Syne, Brandon Waddell, Kodai Senga, Mark Simon, Mets Trivia, Quizzing Satchels, Sandy Alcantara, September, Spunky Upstarts, Towed Juggernauts My whole life as a sports fan, I’ve seen teams seek “Wild Card” spots in playoffs and understood Wild Card to mean “not a division winner,” without ever really stopping to think of the term’s implication away from sports. To be certain I had it straight, I went to the dictionary (well, a dictionary site) […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Devenski, David Peterson, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Unknown, Unpredictable |
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