 
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. |
It’s bad enough that Major League Baseball’s schedulemakers have left the Mets idle on this most iconic of summertime dates, but you’d figure they could have at least let them play on the eve of our nation’s 243rd birthday. What’s that? The Mets did play on July 3? Yesterday? Wednesday? Funny, I have no recollection of […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1776, 1981 Mets, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series, Un-American Activities The lazy interpretation of a Mets win over the Yankees is that the Mets looked like the Yankees and vice-versa, ha-ha; you can almost hear it coming out of the generic local anchor throwing it to sports. Excuse me while I step outside and punch that narrative in the face. Yet now that I’ve gone there, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Opposite, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler Newsradio 88, flagship station for New York Mets baseball, must be pleased the New York Mets decided to make the 8th inning their flagship inning Sunday night. “Hits and runs on the eighth.” “You give us the eighth inning, we won’t give up a lead.” The latter evokes the other news station in New York, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Basketball, Edwin Diaz, Game Shows, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Laura Branigan, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Sunday Night Baseball, The Sopranos, WCBS, Wilmer Font When I first started identifying as a Mets fan, fifty years ago late this summer, you couldn’t have convinced me the Mets could do wrong. There was no evidence to support the assertion. The Mets mostly won. The rare defeat, such as that experienced by the Mets in Baltimore to open the World Series, was […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, Anniversaries, Celebrations, Chris Mazza, Ed Kranepool, Howie Rose, Jesse Hudson, Jim Gosger, Losing Streaks, Milestones, Old Timers Day Up they haven’t given, though up they haven’t gotten. After every Mets loss, of which there’ve been myriad, I hear the manager and selected players tell postgame questioners, “Nobody here has given up.” That’s admirable on the surface, implicit in the job description, ineffectual in the final score. The Mets don’t give up. They come to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Braves, Grim Forecast, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streaks, Not Giving Up, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Robert Gsellman, Trying Team On Saturday afternoon, July 17, 1976, I saw Lloyd Waner hit and Tom Seaver pitch. Same place, different games. Waner appeared in the Old Timers Game at sunny Shea Stadium. At 13, I considered it a hoot that someone from the dusty pages of baseball’s distant past stood in the box and swung the bat, […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1976 Mets, 41 Seaver Way, Lloyd Waner, Old Timers Day, Past, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler Before the Internet, original thoughts were easier to enjoy. Nowadays, thanks to all manner of instantaneous communication, you realize that clever thing that just occurred to you organically occurred simultaneously to others, perhaps many thousands of others. Gosh, you tell yourself, maybe I’m not so clever or original. But it doesn’t mean your thought wasn’t right, […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bad Relief Pitching, Dominic Smith, First Half, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Predictability, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Stephen Nogosek For five innings, Lockett was close to our hearts, but in the sixth, we were forced to realize Font just wasn’t our type. By the time we got around to Flexen, we had no strength left. I’d had a silly thought — a thought so silly that it might have worked. I tried to tell Mickey […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Relief Pitching, Summer, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font So much sorrow at Citizens Bank Park Monday, implicit and otherwise. Mickey Callaway was sorry after he wasn’t. Jason Vargas was sorry there was a distraction to the very fine people on both sides. Brodie Van Wagenen was sorry if anybody was under the impression that he’s telecommuting to the dugout. The rest of the […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apologies, Billy Martin, Brodie Van Wagenen, Collaboration, Gil Hodges, Jason Vargas, Media, Mickey Callaway, Moneyball, The Odd Couple The New York Mets have issued the following statement. The Mets sincerely regret the incident that took place with one of our beat writers following today’s game in the clubhouse. The Mets also sincerely regret the incident that took place with one of our relievers during today’s game on the mound. The Mets further regret the incident that […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, public relations, Regrets, Reversion to Form, Seth Lugo, Statements |
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