 
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. |
Oh, those beautiful round numbers coming out of the most roundly spelled state in the union, O-H-I-O… 10 wins for the preeminent pitcher in the league. Three-and-a-half out of where we wanna be with nine to play. That’s […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 50 Home Runs, Gary Cohen, Home Runs, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Team History Fifty is Nifty for the Polar Bear!! @Mets @Pete_Alonso20 smacks his 50th HR of the season! #LGM Here's Howie's Call! pic.twitter.com/w0AWJruJbY — WCBS 880 (@wcbs880) September 21, 2019 To paraphrase a distinguished United States senator from her exchange with an overmatched opponent in a recent presidential debate, I don’t understand why anybody goes to all the trouble of rooting for the New York Mets just to talk about what they really can’t do and shouldn’t fight for. The Mets are three games behind the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Alive, Brandon Nimmo, Brian Barnes, Chris Nabholz, Noah Syndergaard, Patrick Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Rene Rivera, Rockies, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Ursine Companions The knots were back Sunday night. Troops of Boy Scouts, fleets of fishermen and stomachs belonging to Mets fans watching their team in the playoffs — these are the entities that know knots well. Except the Mets weren’t in the playoffs on Sunday night. It was the middle of September. Too soon for playoffs, but […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, Brandon Nimmo, Jedd Gyorko, Justin Wilson, One-Game Playoffs, Playoffs, Seth Lugo, Stomachs Tied in Knots, Tension, Zack Wheeler Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence Before Friday night’s absolutely useless 9-2 defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the Mets’ record in their previous 13 games stood at 9-4. Over a span of 45 games, their mark totaled 30-15. For the season as a whole, the Mets entered Friday 76-70. Each of the “4” in the 9-4 was presumed to have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Eddie Money, Karma, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Zen There was a clinching at Citi Field on Monday night. Nothing involving a Wild Card, except for the Mets assuring themselves at least one more evening keeping time at the pennant race party. Nothing definitive for the previously surging Diamondbacks, either, except for confirming our suspicions that Wilmer Flores would make us remember him at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, John Franco, Kumquats, Pete Alonso, Savers vs. Sluggers, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores We were never explicitly invited to this so-called Wild party the League was throwing for its “in crowd,” you know. You want to say we crashed it, fine. Somebody left a back door open; we wandered through when we heard the music blasting; and nobody asked us to leave — at least not at first. […] SESSION NOTES Mr. L began our session by telling me he had “that dream again,” his very specific variation on the dream in which a person shows up for the final exam and realizes they haven’t been to class all semester. In Mr. L’s case, it’s what he calls “the baseball […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Delayed Debuts, Dreams, Jed Lowrie, Marcus Stroman, Therapy On a scale of 1 to 10, Tuesday night’s inarguably epic Mets defeat at Washington, in which for the first time in their history they gave up a ninth-inning lead of six runs to lose ASAP, was a Brian Jordan. The second Brian Jordan Game, to be exact, September 29, 2001, Mets leading the Braves, […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, A Chorus Line, Armando Benitez, Brian Jordan, Edwin Diaz, George W. Bush, John Franco, Kurt Suzuki, Nationals, Paul Sewald |
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