In light of recent staff-depleting events, I’ve found myself thinking of two names embedded in my baseball consciousness as very specific avatars relevant to our current situation: Marty Bystrom and John Candelaria. Candelaria you might recognize as a veteran pitcher who was acquired by the Mets under stressful circumstances. It was the middle of September […]
 
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. |
 24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1987 Mets, Grizzled Veterans, John Candelaria, Marty Bystrom, Robert Gsellman, September, Unheralded Rookies OK, try this: Oh man, what a horrible game. What a horrible DAY. Jacob deGrom‘s pitching elbow is inflamed, he’s going to miss a start, and Terry Collins apparently knew nothing about it. And then the Mets went out and did NOTHING against the Nats. Ugh, the Nats! They make me want to break things! I mean, I […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Koda Glover, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Trea Turner, Wild Card A penny for my thoughts? The team for whose chances I wouldn’t have given you a plug nickel a few weeks ago proceeded to turn on a dime and play like a million bucks, yet on Thursday night my paid admission entitled me only to watch them not amount to two bits for most of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Yelich, Depth, Fernando Salas, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Neil Walker, Ray Ramirez, Smokey and the Bandit, The Grim Reaper Shortly after the Mets wrapped up their third straight win over the Marlins Wednesday night, I had an odd vision: Alejandro De Aza hits the home run that proves to be the difference in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. He’s mobbed by 24 Mets, all of them emergency call-ups from the minors. Shortly […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Delusion, Hope, Injuries, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Wilmer Flores Meet the Mets. Meet the Mets. Step right up and meet these Mets. These Mets who we didn’t quite know not very long ago, but who are presently playing their way into our hearts and imprinting themselves on our brains. Meet Seth Lugo. He’s our new somewhere from No. 1 to No. 4 starter. It doesn’t […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Getting Acquainted, Jose Reyes, Rafael Montero, Seth Lugo OK, that was fun. If Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman represented Plan F and G, or some letter fairly far along in the stack, what letter was reserved for Rafael Montero? Montero hadn’t started a game since last April and had done nothing since then to make any member of the Mets brass think well of him. He spent […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Home Runs, Jose Fernandez, Jose Reyes, Kelly Johnson, Nick Wittgren, Rafael Montero, Walkoffs, Yoenis Cespedes Like the names of Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker, this won’t show up in Sunday’s box score, but the Mets’ 5-1 loss to the Phillies was my thousandth game in a row. Not playing, but witnessing. I’ve watched, heard or attended at least some, usually all, of every regular-season Mets game dating back to July […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Commitment, Fans, Home Run Cycle, Injuries, Out of Town Scoreboard, Robert Gsellman, Streaks Years ago, I was driving through the night with some unfortunate passenger, on a road trip that was passing through northern North Carolina or southern Virginia or some similar locale. The description of the passenger has to do with the fact that we were listening to the Mets, and in this analog, pre-At Bat era […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes Bartolo Colon going for the cycle! Leaping grabs from Jose Reyes! Bullets fired by Yoenis Cespedes! Asdrubal Cabrera going deep from both sides of the plate — and making a nifty play to short-circuit the Phillies! And of course Wilmer Flores sending one into the Flushing night to make a tense ballgame so much more relaxed. That was […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Morgan, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Cesar Hernandez, Jose Reyes, Peter Bourjos, Ryan Howard, Wilmer Flores The Mets, who couldn’t have been deader last week, are alive if not 100% well. When you’ve won exactly one more game than you’ve lost, yet retain aspirations of winning twelve in October/November, you can’t have everything. Though you need to come close. Thursday night was the must-iest win of the year, superseding Tuesday night by dint of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Contenders, Cramps, Seth Lugo, Wild Card |
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