 
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. |
There are worst things than living in Panic City. You could be stuck with an address in Disgust Township or Despair Junction or Apathy Falls. All three of those sad little burgs would have been a suitable location for the wretched parody of baseball that the Mets and Cubs inflicted on defenseless fans for 11 embarrassing innings […]  31 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Darrell Ceciliani, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Panic City, Ruben Tejada Let’s hear more about Steven Matz. Let’s see more of his delighted grandpa. Let’s get another look at his delightful sandwich. Let’s relive those three hits from Sunday, which is as many as Steven Matz’s teammates collected without his help Tuesday. Let us tally up his four runs batted in, roughly four more than Mets […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Joe Maddon, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Michael Cuddyer, Steven Matz Your correspondent, taking a whirl at Beating the Booth, for fun and self-flagellation. Beat the Booth, the thoroughly Metted game show that pairs Howie Rose and Gary Cohen and therefore offers plenty of reason to watch, is at last coming to an SNY near you. It will air tonight and tomorrow following your regularly […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Bud Harrelson, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Jay Payton, Johan Santana, Mets Fan Instinct, R.A. Dickey, SNY, Timo Perez Previously on The Mets… “Eleven in a row! This is the year, baby!” “Oh no. Who’s hurt now?” “Sure, the pitching’s great, but they can’t score to save their lives.” “They’re never gonna win another game, are they?” “We’re making a roster move and adjusting our rotation accordingly.” “We don’t need another pitcher. We need a bat.” “He’s from around here, you […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dick Rusteck, Garrett Olson, Lucas Duda Growth Chart, Pitchers Hitting, Steve Miller Band, Steven Matz, Suspended Games Welcome to your recurring state of suspended animation, last visited approximately two years and one month ago. The Mets haven’t lost and they haven’t yet lost. I suppose the same could be said about winning, but I just sat in the rain for what seemed like several hours, but it was just several innings and […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Phillips, Curtis Granderson, Matt Harvey, Rain, Steve Miller Band, Suspended Games Steven Matz graduates to the big time on Sunday. Or the Met time, at any rate. The efficacy of Sandy Alderson’s doctoral thesis in mathematics — the GM contends six starters will fit snugly into five slots — remains to be seen, but official confirmation that the last lavishly hyped pitching prospect of the current […] The Mets won a game today, and in case you had any doubt, winning most definitely feels better than losing. So how’d they win? By the skin of their teeth, actually. They got their usual terrific starting pitching, with Jacob deGrom throttling the Brewers. They got just enough hitting — TWO WHOLE RUNS, MA! And they […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Milestones, Steven Matz, Young Pitching The Mets, losers of seven consecutive ballgames, will win again. They may win their next scheduled date this very afternoon against the Brewers. Jacob deGrom is still one of the finest pitchers around and the Brewers are still — despite taking the first two games of this series — a last-place team with the worst […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frankie Rodriguez, Jimmy Nelson, Losing Streak I’m not sure what the point of this recap is. Just go read this one — because the Mets just replayed Friday’s game, down to the comedy of errors on a good bunt to third. Once again, the key figures were Ruben Tejada, pressed into service at an unnatural position, and the pitcher — then it […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Jonathon Niese, Michael Cuddyer, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson It was the “Mambo No. 5” game. That’s one of the two ways I differentiate it from all the other games I’ve attended. In the seventh-inning stretch, they played “Mambo No. 5,” the very contemporary and very kitschy song Lou Bega was making famous late in the summer of 1999. I don’t know why they […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, Darryl Hamilton, Lou Bega, Moment of Silence |
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