Elton John’s “Levon” was “born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day when the New York Times said, ‘God is dead, and the war’s begun.’” What exactly does that mean? As Jimmy Rabbitte said in The Commitments regarding the lyrics to “A Whiter Shade of Pale” in the imaginary interview he conducted throughout […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1996 Mets, Albert Almora Jr., Bernard Gilkey, Blowouts, Bobby Bonilla, Braves, David Peterson, Debuts, Elton John, Lance Johnson, Mark Clark, Position Players Pitching, Procol Harum, Rico Brogna, Sean Reid-Foley, Team History, The Commitments, Thomas Szapucki, Todd Hundley MLB announced its All-Star finalists on Sunday. No Mets were mentioned. No Mets came close to being mentioned. Off all the choices that could be ranked, no critical mass ranked enough Mets for the runoff. A first-place team in the nation’s largest market has gone so under the radar on a positional basis that even […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Batting Average, Corey Oswalt, Garrison Keillor, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Kung Fu Fighting, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rico Carty, Ron Santo, Rudy, The Odd Couple, Zack Wheeler Perhaps you’ve heard or at least heard of the classic Jack Benny bit in which the comic entertainer who cultivated a notorious tightwad persona is held up at gunpoint. The robber makes clear he wants Benny’s wallet, and he wants it now. “Your money or your life.” There’s a pause. The pause extends. The pause simply will not end. The […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Carvel, Cosmic Bargaining, Dan Aykroyd, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Jack Benny, Luis Guillorme, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Records, Seth Lugo, Strikeouts, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver Purposefully preparing the game bag. 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Game Bag, Hebrew National, Hockey, Not So Slight Return, Piano Man, Super Express, The Log, Tylor Megill This town is called Splitsville. It was created by an act of Manfred. Splitsville measures seven innings wide and seven innings long — and seven innings wide and seven innings long all over again. Some folks say there’s a couple of innings missing on each side of town. I don’t know about that. But if […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blondie, Bonehead Baserunning, Doubleheaders, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Splits On Saturday night in Washington, the Mets made like a banana and split — happy dad joke to all you fathers out there. As soon as they were done ensuring they wouldn’t follow up on their afternoon success and sweep, I flipped from SNY to TNT and USA. Mostly TNT. The leagues that are in […] The Washington Nationals opted to charge their fans (and discerning fans of their opponents) once for one short game this afternoon and charge them again later for another short game this evening. Bah, Natbug! Here at Faith and Fear, we give you a regular-sized blog post for each discrete game of the Saturday day-night doubleheader, especially […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Pitchers Hitting, Seven-Inning Scams MEMORANDUM As you know, previous postponements have us playing a day-night doubleheader tomorrow (Saturday) in Washington as well as a single-admission doubleheader at Citi Field on Monday, meaning we face a gauntlet of five games in a span of approximately 58 hours. Even though four […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Endless-Seeming Games, Joey Lucchesi, Lack of Hitting, Seth Lugo, Yan Gomes Helluva win for the Mets on a Wednesday night in the middle of June. Timely hitting, nice show of power, six runs on the board, solid bullpen work capped by another save for the closer and, of course, a fine start for the starting pitcher for as long as the starting pitcher lasted. Yet come Thursday […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Heaven Can Wait, Infamous Dates, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Durant, Shoulders The word that keeps getting repeated by Mets and people around the Mets is “electric”. Citi Field, they say, is electric. They’re not referring to how the stadium lights are lit or how its loudspeakers are amplified. They’re describing the atmosphere with fans filling seats with their anatomies and the air with their exclamations. Capacity […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, 2021 Mets, David Peterson, Electric, Jake Marisnick, Mets Fans, Team History, Unplugged |
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