 
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. |
“Does anyone still wear a hat?” Elaine Stritch was known to ask. If anyone does — and I know it’s done at Citi Field — I hope hats have been held onto tightly, for the Mets won a ballgame in their ballpark Wednesday night. Surprising, I know. The Mets, losers of 10 of their previous 11, […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2021 Mets, Bench Mob, Bill Pulsipher, Clay Holmes, Didier Fuentes, Elaine Stritch, Halfway Point, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Ronny Mauricio, Stephen Sondheim, Time’s Flight, Youthful Exploits I was hanging out with Frankie Montas Tuesday night, though not as soon I’d planned. Thank the Long Island Rail Road and its “signal problems” and “scattered delays” for making sure I wouldn’t see the veteran’s first pitches as a Met. If I didn’t see his first pitches, I wondered if I’d see any, based […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen Churn, Dicky Lovelady, Frankie Montas, Hanging Out, Heat, Jonathan Pintaro, LIRR, Rey Ordonez, Shea Stadium, Strangers on a Train, Tim Teufel The Mets went only 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position Saturday night in Philadelphia, and their starting pitcher had to be pulled with one on and nobody out in the sixth, suggesting two overly familiar ingredients had been stirred into the pot for an eighth consecutive serving of futility stew. Fortunately, the Mets were experimenting […] It’s the top of the sixth at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night. Blade Tidwell, a rookie pitcher carrying a parcel of promise along with a name one can picture Carnac the Magnificent working into one of his curses after an audience doesn’t respond as he wishes to one of his prognostications (“may your Blade […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, Carnac, Jeff Kent, Jeff McNeil, Jose Valentin, Losing Streak, Paul Lo Duca, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Shawn Green, Slight Resilience, Taijuan Walker, Two Runners at Home Plate, Zack Wheeler I don’t know if it’s a repressed memory that suddenly burst through my consciousness or simply a detail that didn’t hold my attention for long when it was fresh, but after the Mets’ losing streak reached six games Thursday night in Atlanta, I thought of the 2024 National League Championship Series, specifically the Mets’ starting […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Blade Tidwell, Clay Holmes, Justin Hagenman, Repressed Memories, Starting Pitching, Sudden Changes of Fortune The late, great Dennis D’Agostino had a forthright way of handling blank space in his seminal 1981 volume This Date in New York Mets History. For any date on which nothing discernibly Metsian had yet occurred (understandable, in that there hadn’t yet been two decades of official franchise operation), Dennis wrote, simply, “Nothing of importance […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Moment of Silence, Ron Taylor, Saves Fishing around my desk for something or other as I prepared to pen a screed about the absolutely loathsome baseball game I watched Tuesday night, I came across the following document, dated and notarized September 30, 2024: “I the undersigned agree after today’s baseball game of New York Mets 8 Atlanta Braves 7 at Truist Park, […] BAZ was on the back of the jersey of the pitcher on the mound for Tampa Bay on Sunday. For a moment, I let myself believe BAZ was an icon on the level of CHER. Just one name. Just one syllable. All you needed to know was that BAZ was in town. No wonder Citi […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Bullpen Manipulation, Cher, David Peterson, Jared Young, Justin Garza, Position Players Pitching, Rays, Roster Size, Shane Baz, Ty Adcock As it’s Father’s Day, allow me this recollection of the night, over dinner, my father decided he needed to read us a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. What, this type of thing didn’t happen in your kitchen? This was when I was in seventh grade, so perhaps the impetus was me mentioning, only because I was asked, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Doyle, Butt Taps, Cole Sulser, Father's Day, Rays, Rudyard Kipling, Tylor Megill Except for the top of the sixth inning, Friday night at Citi Field was a pretty good game. The Mets scored five runs versus the Tampa Bay Rays and received five solid innings from Clay Holmes. Gotta like things of that nature occurring. It’s a shame the top of the sixth, when Paul Blackburn and Max […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Edwin Uceta, Eric Orze, LOBs, Old Friends, Paul Blackburn, Rays, Ronny Mauricio |
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