It’s a Tuesday night in July of 1970. It is the twelfth inning of a 4-4 contest. Pete Rose is on second. Jim Hickman singles into center field. Rose motors around third base. Amos Otis fires to the plate. Rose keeps coming home, regardless that Ray Fosse is blocking his path. The on-deck batter Dick […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Game, All-Stars, Billy Wagner, Bud Harrelson, David Peterson, David Wright, Dino Ebel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Gil Hodges, Kyle Schwarber, National League Loyalty, Pete Alonso, Pete Rose, Ray Fosse, Slow Realization, Swing-off, Tom Seaver, Trevor Hoffman, Truist Park The Mets are a half-game in first place as the final action before the All-Star break approaches. That seems appropriate, given that so much of the Mets’ good fortune seems to depend on opposing baserunners being the equivalent of no more than a half-step off a base while a Met fielder’s tag is touching him. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Witt Jr., Close Plays, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Friedland, Luis Torrens, Video Review Surely you’ve been told at some point in your life, “Get some rest and you’ll feel better.” I felt fine in the bottom of the sixth Friday night, though I’d felt better before the Royals tied the Mets at one apiece. The part of the rain-delayed game in which Kodai Senga pitched four scoreless innings […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Devenski, Clocks, Francisco Lindor, Gary Apple, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Michael Wacha, Pete Alonso, Royals, Stirring to Consciousness I would like the Mets to be loaded with nothing but stars who win every game by lots of runs, pitched daily and/or nightly to victory solely by stalwarts of the starting rotation. Sounds ideal enough. Now for reality. The Mets don’t win every game. Nor does anybody else, but the Mets have gotten out of the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, All-Stars, Brandon Waddell, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Dicky Lovelady, Justin Hagenman, Rico Garcia, Ryne Stanek, Shrinking Middle Class, Two-Run Losses, Tyrone Taylor, Unplanned Starters Let us not move into this final week before the All-Star break without acknowledging we have three All-Stars. Congratulations to Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz and, most of all, Francisco Lindor. We extend most-of-allness to Francisco because this is his first time he’ll go to an All-Star Game as a New York Met — as the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Longest Waits, Pete Alonso, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tug McGraw Friday’s late-afternoon sun bathed Jeff McNeil’s chin in enough of a glow to make the touch of gray in his beard quite noticeable to me. Live long enough, and that kid who had torn up Binghamton and Las Vegas so much that he forced a callup and a trade of the veteran in front of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Brett Baty, Graybeards, Huascar Brazoban, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Justin Hagenman, Longevity, Marcus Stroman, Reed Garrett, Subway Series, Versatility Two out of three from Milwaukee…where have we heard that one before? If it wasn’t quite October 2024 at American Family Field in July 2025 at Citi Field Thursday night, at least it wasn’t any more of the second half of this June seeping into this July. Maybe this July will tell a different story […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Peterson, Injuries, Jose Quintana, Paul Blackburn, Replay Review, Warm Bodies, Wee Willie Keeler, Zach Pop I hope SNY, having sat Jose Reyes in the studio co-anchor chair next to Gary Apple this weekend, never gives our old shortstop any “how to be on TV” lessons, because he’s wonderful as is. On the postgame show Friday night, following the Mets’ 9-1 loss in Pittsburgh, Apple asked Reyes about falling victim to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Blade Tidwell, Cliff Cook, Colin Poche, Craig Anderson, Galen Cisco, Jay Hook, Jim Marshall, Jose Reyes, Mets Alumni, Mitch Keller, Names, Pirates, Rick Herrscher, Scores, Team History, Vinegar Bend Mizell “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 |
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