I was a temporary Astros fan earlier this month, sort of like I was this month in 1980. Way back then, Houston being in the playoffs was novel and they were playing a team, the Phillies, that I detested. The Mets were nowhere in sight. It was October like it’s supposed to be when you […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2017 Postseason, Astros, Municipal Sanity Preservation What’s red and white and available for dinner the rest of October? Your National League East Champion Washington Nationals, who I have to say aren’t doing a very good job of representing our division on the larger stage. As is their custom in this decade, they went to the NLDS. As is their more noted […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, Cubs, Heartbreak, National League East, Nationals Monday afternoon I was keeping an eye on the Astros and the Red Sox in the fourth game of their American League Division Series, rain spitting on Fenway, Houston trying to close it out, Boston trying to keep it going, both clubs straddling the line between urgent and panicked as they relied on their respective […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Postseason, Astros, Geography, Las Vegas, Minor Leagues, Red Sox, Syracuse You really don’t notice coaches in major league baseball until they are pointed out, which isn’t often. Maybe it’s for something benign, like they planted tomatoes in bullpen or exchange particularly sharp low-fives when batters work out walks. Maybe it’s for something pleasant, like how well his advice is being processed by a player on […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Coaches, Dan Warthen, Don Baylor, Moment of Silence, Solly Hemus, Team History, Tom Seaver Don’t trip over all the casts, crutches, slings and splints scattered along the streets of North America tonight. They were discarded this morning by Met after Met who was magically healed by the news that Ray Ramirez will no longer be training them. The sick, the lame and the day-to-day are all up on their feet, […] If you’ve never read the work of James Schapiro, author of the blog Shea Bridge Report (“good writing about a bad team”), then Faith and Fear invites you to pull up a chair and dig in. James kindly offered to file some impressions from the final Mets game in Philadelphia, and we wisely took him […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Closing Day, James Schapiro A time to be born, a time to die Baseball gives you what came before, what’s going on and what will come next. Life does that, too, I suppose, but as Casey Stengel might have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Brad Emaus, Closing Day, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins An Asdrubal Cabrera three-run homer in the 11th to beat the Phillies? What Met fan would say no to that? Sadly, though, Cabrera’s Saturday night shot will never be more than a faint echo of the one we’ll all remember. That one, off Edubray Ramos, came down the stretch last September, when the Mets were fighting […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1988 Mets, 2017 Postseason, Asdrubal Cabrera, Disappointment, Gary Carter, Kirk Gibson, Orel Hershiser Unnamed sources report the Mets lost again Friday night. “We were all miserable,” said a fan who made anonymity a condition of speaking frankly regarding the state of the team that is limping to the finish with a 69-91 record following grand expectations for 2017. “They suck, the whole bunch of them,” the Mets fan […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, Anonymous Sources, Dan Warthen, Terry Collins It’s the ninth inning of the Mets’ eighty-first and final home game at Citi Field, the last chance I will have to watch up close a team I’ve seen too much of for six months. I am here out of a sense of obligation, though not a real obligation, rather a longstanding rule I have […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, Closing Day, Closing Night, Jose Reyes, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins |
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