It’s Sunday night. The Mets haven’t won in more than a week. As if that’s not enough of a shame, our greatest miracle has been celebrated anew, and this is how our team responds in the present? What we could really use is a nice offensive explosion while everything is looking listless and limp, maybe […]
 
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 |  1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2022 Mets, Almost Famous, Cleon Jones, Dana Brand, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Irene Hodges, Joely Rodriguez, Losing Streaks Snapped, Pete Alonso, Time In 1969, 1973, 2000 and 2015, the Mets qualified for the postseason without the benefit of capturing their first game after the All-Star break, thus if you need a little precedent to take the edge off the first game the 2022 Mets played in five days leaving you wondering if they thought Friday night was […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ledesma, All-Star Break, Armando Benitez, Billy Eppler, Bubba Trammell, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Charlie Puleo, Chasen Bradford, Chris Woodward, Colin Holderman, Daniel Vogelbach, Eric Hosmer, J.C. Martin, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cairo, Nolan Ryan, Old Friends, Passion, Second Half, Second-Half Openers, Team History, Trades, Yu Darvish 3 out of 4 My muscle memory still works. I still remember, even from the lofty heights of first place, how to be disgusted with my team as if it hasn’t been living in first place practically every […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Confidence, First Half, Methodical, Series Win, Wrigley Field I’ll take two wins in three games, even if the price is one loss in the middle. Not that that’s how series of baseball games work, exactly, but that is how the Mets-Braves to-do went down. We won Monday. They won Tuesday. We won Wednesday. That’s math as good as it gets when you don’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Harrelson, Chris Bassitt, Dom Smith, Dreams, Drew Smith, Droughts, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Series Win, Team History, Tommy Hunter The story before Monday night’s game in Atlanta was discerning what the hell Robinson Cano was doing in a Braves uniform, in the Braves lineup, in the Braves infield. Wasn’t Robinson Cano, having washed out with the San Diego Padres, an El Paso Chihuahua literally the day before? Did the surging Atlanta Braves really need […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Psyche-Outs, Robinson Cano, The Odd Couple So maybe it won’t be a runaway, a rout, a ravaging of the National League East. Maybe things are about to get real. Real challenging. The Mets are in Atlanta for the next three games. The Mets are also on top of Atlanta by a game-and-a-half, which looks precarious from any angle, especially from the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Braves, Challenges, Ed Bauta, Jeff McNeil, Moment of Silence, Paternity List The temperature was in the 80s. The energy was out of the ’80s. I needed neither a weatherman nor a meter reader to know which way the wind was blowing or how much the juice was flowing. It didn’t take a meteorology degree to discern it was a warm summer day. You didn’t have to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Ceremony, Keith Hernandez, Mets Fans, Retired Numbers 1. The Mets ran this ticket special in the 1980s that was incredibly successful. For the price of one admission, you could see the most fearsome competitor in the game, a peerless clutch hitter and first base play that was as revolutionary as it was nonpareil. They were also willing into throw in for that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Keith Hernandez, Ralph Kiner, Retired Numbers, Seinfeld, Team History When cleaning up after dinner, I gather momentum. It doesn’t matter that the Mets are playing. It doesn’t matter that the Mets are batting. If I have the garbage together, I want to tie it up and take it to the Dumpster. Might I miss something momentous? Probably. My non-Elias statistics tell me approximately 70% […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cleaning Up, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Momentum, Trevor Williams You’d prefer a win. No doubt about it, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you’d look at a 1-0 loss and gnash your teeth. The hundredth, you’d gnash a little, then grit them, then take a deep breath, then rub your eyes, then take in the image at the center of the bigger picture. Max Scherzer […] |
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