It was reasonably fitting that Jay Payton stopped by the SNY booth in the bottom of the fourth inning Friday night. Jay and Butch Huskey are this weekend’s special guest alumni at Citi Field. If you haven’t noticed, every Friday the Mets welcome home a pair of former players to meet the press, sign autographs […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, Jay Payton, Mets Alumni, Timing, Trade Deadline, Zack Wheeler With his third home run Tuesday night, Robinson Cano assured himself of qualifying into perpetuity for a conversation that isn’t about disappointing veteran acquisitions that cost us the potential inherent in promising youth. For an evening, our new pal Robbie didn’t need to be lumped in with every wayward American League expatriate from Joe Foy […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acquisitions of Infamy, Joe Foy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Robinson Cano, Team History, Three Homer Club GREGORY LEWIS PRINCE LOYAL METS FAN FROM AGE 6 TO 56, ENCOMPASSING TWO WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, SEVEN OTHER POSTSEASONS AND MYRIAD LOSING CAMPAIGNS. ATTENDED HUNDREDS OF GAMES AT SHEA STADIUM AND HUNDREDS MORE AT CITI FIELD. REGULARLY TUNED INTO TV AND RADIO BROADCASTS. READ ABOUT TEAM RELIGIOUSLY. CO-AUTHORED BLOG DEVOTED TO METS FANDOM FOR […] “Don’t bother, Mickey,” I wanted to tell the beleaguered manager of the New York Mets after his club dropped and I do mean dropped its second consecutive extra-inning game, this one on a patently unbelievable albeit hauntingly familiar defensive misplay, “we didn’t touch home plate, either.” One sometimes forgets when the bullpen falters or the left […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alex Dickerson, Amed Rosario, Applicable Metsian Mythology, Billy Preston, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Juan Marichal, Luis Avilan, Madison Bumgarner, Marv Throneberry, Todd Frazier, Tyler Beede, Wilson Ramos When I was in junior high, I’d carry a Bic pen in the front left pocket of my jeans and, at some point in the course of the school year, the pen would explode. Several points, actually…and a whole pack of pens. I never understood that. It was just hanging around during one class, then […] All Mets fans who were around for 1969 enjoyed 1969 in their own way. My friend Garry Spector, who was eleven, enjoyed it so much it drove him to tears. Garry recently penned a sweet reminiscence on the always exquisite Perfect Pitch blog (the unique baseball/musical diamond tended by Metropolitan Opera oboist and Metropolitan Baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Ed Charles, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Joy, Poetry The Mets have prevailed. In a battle of the teams with the two worst records in the National League, they are the least worst. In their five-member division, they place fourth on merit. Take that, Marlins. The Marlins did. They were outplayed by the Mets for two consecutive games in a three-game series — in Miami, no […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Fourth Place, George Foster, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Keith Hernandez, Little Treats, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Series Win, Wilson Ramos Usually Brodie Van Wagenen throws the chair of unfettered frustration. Following the successful resolution of baseball activities Saturday night in Miami, we can close our eyes (or keep them wide open if we’re over on the West Side) and imagine instead Brodie threw the chair of temporary redemption. Throwing chairs still seems like unseemly behavior […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Edwin Diaz, Literal Power Outages, Midnight Cowboy, Paper Towel Commercials, Robinson Cano, That Trade Anticipation traditionally accompanies our team’s first game out of the All-Star break. We haven’t had a real game to watch in five days, so naturally we’re famished for Mets. On top of the yen for baseball was a hankering for an explanation by the highest-ranking official available to give us one. Brodie Van Wagenen, we […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Caleb Smith, Catchers Stealing, Dwight Gooden, Jason Vargas, John Stearns, Jorge Alfaro, Keith Hernandez, Pickoff Attempts, Second Half “The New York Post has asked me to cover the World Series for them if the Mets get into it. They said they couldn’t pay me for the articles, but might, just might, be able to pay some, only some of my expenses — like, maybe hotel, but not travel. That’s very similar to the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Ball Four, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jim Bouton, Moment of Silence |
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