 
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 a truism of baseball that no matter what you’re going to win 54 games and lose 54 games, with what happens in the other 54 determining your season. Which is a pretty good rule, even if the Mets broke it for the first four years of their existence and came within a whisper of busting it […] When Jim Henderson entered Tuesday night’s game at St. Louis — one on, one out, Yadier Molina coming up, Mets leading by two in the seventh — it occurred to me that this was potentially a pivotal moment in Henderson’s Met legacy. If Henderson surrendered a two-run homer to Molina, which wasn’t out of the […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Cardinals, Debuts, Injuries, Jim Henderson, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Pennant Race, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Listen up, posters. We’ve had it with the invective in the comments. We’ve banned one person already, but it’s had no apparent effect on the conversation, which has become increasingly rancorous and tiresome. Today I had to wade into the comments multiple times to wag my finger, and that was on an off-day after a thoroughly gratifying […] The best thing to do — the sane thing, the kind thing, the self-preserving thing — would be to focus solely on what happened in Sunday night’s Mets-Giants game. It was taut, tight and well-played, but ultimately a tale of two pitchers: Jeff Samardzija and Noah Syndergaard. Samardzija rode his plus-plus fastball, a resurrected curve and a […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Wilpon, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes For at least one day the Mets, those egregious laughingstocks, were anything but: they stomped on the Giants to break their losing streak in convincing fashion. 9-5? That’s definitely a way to make a living. Yoenis Cespedes led the charge, smacking two home runs and just missing a third, a just-missed that may or may not have led […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Billy Cotton, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, Josh Smoker, Terrel Hansen, The Holy Books, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets will play a game today in San Francisco. We will root for them. They might reverse prevailing trends and win. Perhaps the Cardinals will lose, and the Mets will move back to within 4½ games of the second Wild Card. It’s not inconceivable that this sequence of events will repeat itself on Sunday, […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Loes, Grand Slams, Josh Smoker, Sadness, Seth Lugo The Giants certainly know how to slot their promotions, scheduling their annual Jerry Garcia Tribute Night for when the Mets came to town Thursday. A friend of mine, not much of a Grateful Dead fan, liked to tell the joke, “What did the Deadhead say once the drugs wore off — ‘man, this music sucks.’” I […] 51 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Trip, Grand Slams, Grateful Dead, Jacob deGrom, Justin Ruggiano, Madison Bumgarner, Team History Thirteen thoughts after staying up late with the Mets and watching alongside them as their opponents crossed the plate thirteen times. 1. Jon Niese, per the late Dennis Green, is who we expected him to be. Three fine innings against those poisonous Arizona Diamondbacks, a dreadful fourth, gone in the fifth. You can’t say he didn’t […] 74 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Diamondbacks, Expectations, Jon Niese, Josh Edgin, Mirages, Possibility, Ty Kelly, Yasmany Tomas, Zack Godley Though Noah Syndergaard delivered the biggest blow at Chase Field Tuesday night, Jerry Blevins prevented a bigger blow. Syndergaard homered in no-doubt fashion in the fifth to give himself and his team a 3-1 lead. A pitcher going yard will always grab your attention, even if the concept of Thor homering is no longer novel; […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Maher, Diamondbacks, Distilled Spirits, Jerry Blevins, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, T.J. Rivera “Hey, thanks for agreeing to do this on such short notice. We know you just got up here, but when Ralph heard you were in town, he really wanted to have you back on.” 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Choo Choo Coleman, Moment of Silence, Ralph Kiner |
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