 
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. |
The mood at Citi Field turned properly solemn as the reading of the will began: “I, Jonathon Joseph Niese, being of sound mind — except when I begin to lose it at least once per game when the slightest little thing goes wrong — and body — except for my annual stint on the disabled list […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Boyz II Men, Inherited Runners, Jon Niese, Vic Black The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball matchmakers want to know what, exactly, is taking so long: Send some prospects from Column Mets west while some prospects […] Who among us doesn’t remember being a kid in the backyard, dreaming — if only for a second — of a career in the big leagues? I’m Lucas Duda. It’s the last out of another ass-kicking administered by the Nationals. I’m standing sort of near the plate, looking out at Rafael Soriano standing sort of near […] You must have heard Ninth inning. Travis d’Arnaud has homered off Rafael Soriano to cut the Nationals’ lead to 3-2. Matt den Dekker has singled. After an ill-advised as well as poorly executed bunt attempt by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Martinez, Impatience, Josh Thole, Patience, Pete Townshend, Thomas Jefferson Tuesday night in August means Chasin Time at Citi Field for the Princes. For the Chasins, it means Prince Time. It’s a good time for all every year for five years suddenly, as time lives up to its reputation and flies. Stephanie and I have been meeting up with erstwhile Bar Mitzvah boy/sharp-eyed sleepover correspondent […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryder Chasin, Tradition The good news to come out of August 11, 2014, is that the Mets beat the Phillies, 5-3, producing all sorts of sunny sidebars in Philadelphia while doing so. Universally beloved Jon Niese pitched seven strong; Buddy Carlyle bridged the eighth like Benjamin Franklin bridges the Delaware; Jeurys Familia, thanks to replay review, did not surrender […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, Anniversaries, Doug Linton, Eric Gunderson, Jason Jacome, Jim Lindeman, Mauro Gozzo, Milestones, Rico Brogna, Roger Mason OK, so that little speech about patience? Today was why it needed to be said. Today when the Mets rudely interrupted their own romp over the Phillies by blowing a five-run lead. Today when the mangy zombie Phillies rose up and justified Ruben Amaro Jr.’s dingbat refusal to admit the obvious, disemboweling our bullpen and then shambling off […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jenrry Mejia, Vic Black, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler How is it that a lineup loaded with ballplayers who jammed the box score of a World Series clincher can appear so routinely beatable? The dichotomy in perception probably has something to do with a temporal gap, what with that particular World Series having taken place in 2008 and the beating in question proceeding in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dale Thayer, Darren Bragg, Dillon Gee, Gary Bennett, Jimmy Rollins, Lucas Duda, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Stability, Taylor Teagarden, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption Sandy Alderson insisted losing two out of three to the Nationals didn’t have anything to do with Friday’s developments in Metland, but let’s not kid ourselves. Wilmer Flores is going to be the guy at shortstop, not Ruben Tejada. Lucas Duda is going to play against tough lefties. Kirk Nieuwenhuis was going to be the guy in left, except […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Chris Young, Matt den Dekker, Milestones, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores Good morning. This is the 1,583rd game after which we have spoken to you from this blog, where so many losses have been noted that shaped the history of this franchise. Each time we have done so to discuss with you some matter that we believe affected the Metropolitan interest. In all the decisions we have […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Anniversaries, Double Switches, Gerald Ford, Jacob deGrom, Richard Nixon, Terry Collins |
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