 
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. |
Now THAT was an entertaining game. Late April is still a period where you’re acknowledging first times, and this was one I’d been waiting for: the first exhilarating win that leaves a contact high, so you’re up for hours watching replays and reading recaps and searching for hashtags with a goofy, slightly dazed grin. But man oh […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bunting, Curtis Granderson, Gonzalez Germen, Marlins, Omar Quintanilla, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler I missed being in the house for Weather Education Day Thursday afternoon, but I recognized its sound over the air after inadvertently attending several since the Mets inaugurated them in 2007. Weather Education Day means a noisier, shriller, noticeably younger crowd, albeit one that reacts without much relation to what’s going on in the game. […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Abreu, Chris Young, Climate, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Facebook, Kids, New York Times, Weather It’s a big world with lots of people of it. Even our little part of it — in which people in the New York area cheer for a baseball team — is pretty big. No, I wasn’t specific about the baseball team. For one night, I’m going to expand our circle to include Yankees fans. Only […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Jonathon Niese, Kyle Farnsworth, Michael Pineda, Michael Wacha, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees The Mets commemorated the 50th anniversary of the 1964 World’s Fair at Citi Field Tuesday night. It involved a little too much Branden and Alexa, but the sentiment was solid and the theme was well executed: period songs, vintage video, even special at-bat graphics evoking the enormous futuristic attraction that kept Shea Stadium company in […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Hitting, Team History, Tommie Agee, World's Fair The Mets of recent vintage have been more about sabotage than camouflage, but for a night all was well in Flushing. The good vibes started with Jenrry Mejia, whose mix of cutters, sinkers and sliders had the Cardinals flailing, muttering and occasionally smashing bats. Mejia faltered in the seventh, as per usual for 2014 Mets […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Travis d'Arnaud, Uniforms Curtis Granderson isn’t having fun so far. There’s the .127 batting average, the $60 million contract, and even the defense — what, exactly, that throw in the nightmarish top of the fifth was is a question best not pondered. Granderson is by all accounts a peach of a guy, but he’s been hearing boos from […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Curtis Granderson, Dan Uggla, Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton, Scott Rice They gave us quality-mounted canvas prints of a photo taken at the first game Shea Stadium ever hosted. It’s the reason I snapped up tickets in January, the reason I schlepped my stubborn cold and a hundred or so tissues to Citi Field Saturday night. I wanted the Mets to remind me of Shea. Oh, they […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Jose Valverde, Justin Upton, Mets Promotions, Opportunitease, Shea Stadium He was a Met — maybe he didn’t perform to the standards we set for him or to our satisfaction of what we decided he could be, but he was one of ours. He went out there and he did his best. Then one day he was gone and we could only imagine the damage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Farewells, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, One-Hitters, Trades, Zack Thornton In honor of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Shea Stadium, I thought I’d reprint my post from April 17, 1964, in case you missed it the first time around. Well, you can’t say it isn’t big. Or bright. They said it would be both and it surely is. I’m just not sure it feels like […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Ed Bauta, FAFIF Classics, Jack Fisher, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Stargell “A diamondback without venom is a belt.” Points to our pal Metstradamus for the line of the series and an unsparingly accurate take on the National League’s Arizona franchise. As a lifelong Mets fan, I’m well acquainted with terrible baseball, and the Diamondbacks are supplying it by the truckload right now. I’ve been listening to Howie and […] |
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