 
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. |
Utter pessimism is dead! Long live tempered pessimism! Losing, Lewis Grizzard once wrote, hurts worse than winning feels good. We’ve known plenty from losing and hurting. We’re only now processing again how winning feels. I’m not certain. After the 0-3 start that weighed 0-30 in Met-ric emotional tonnage, the simple act of not losing feels pretty […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Billy Hamilton, Brandon Phillips, Eric Young Jr., George Theodore, Jenrry Mejia, Joey Votto, Jose Valverde, Kyle Farnsworth, Lucas Duda, Mike Leake, Not Losing, Winning Back in the day, the Mets confined most of their April home games to afternoons. The thinking went something like this: it gets cold here at night. You might even say it gets bitter. Thursday the Mets went back to the day, a scheduling decision we “20,561” on hand (an accurate figure if you count inner […] It’s two games. 1/81 of the schedule. Calm down already. I’m speaking to myself as much as I am to you. But man oh man, this isn’t going well. The bullpen’s terrible — and while I’m no scout, something tells me wheeling the embalmed corpse of Kyle Farnsworth onto the mound isn’t going to help things. The lineup […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Kyle Farnsworth, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins Longtime Friend of FAFIF Ben Nathan, who in 2010 gave us his dissertation on why Jerry Manuel was a Woodrow Wilson for our 20-inning times, continues to put his mind to only the finest intellectual pursuits. Of late he has been in Indonesia teaching schoolchildren. And what has Ben been teaching them? Why, to Meet the […] One of the benefits of sticking around to the final out when many have flocked despairingly to the exits in the face of howling winds and widening deficits is seeing things you wouldn’t believe if you didn’t experience them for yourself. Minutes after Jason bolted the imminent initial Met demise of 2014, he was joined […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Convenience Fees, In-Game Hosts, Mets Opening Day, Surcharges, Utter Foolishness Every baseball fan worth her salt knows it’s one of the fundamental rules of fandom: You extrapolate from Opening Day at your peril. Collin Cowgill‘s grand slam on Opening Day 2013 didn’t kickstart a 162-0 season and a World Series title, or keep Cowgill in the major leagues until early May. On Opening Day 1969 Tom Seaver […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Bobby Parnell, Collin Cowgill, David Wright, Fans, Hope, Opening Day I stumbled into a realization a few weeks ago: baseball is a metaphor for baseball. It’s not a metaphor for life. It doesn’t serve as our symbolic rebirth or any of that folderol. Opening Day means that after too many months without regulation games, we get one, to be followed almost immediately by another, and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Bobby Jones, Dillon Gee, Expos, Mets Opening Day, Rudy The headline didn’t have much on The Onion. “Farnsworth,” it reported, “rides bus without being Met.” Well, I thought, that’s too bad. It would have been nice if somebody had picked up Farnsworth, but sometimes you just have to walk home from the bus stop. Of course it didn’t require much of a double-take to realize […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Dennis D'Agostino, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Kyle Farnsworth, Sportswriting, Twitter Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo There’s a scene in a church in one of my wife’s and my favorite movies, The Commitments. A lady, dutifully scraping away at the hardened wax countless candles have dripped in the name of divine intervention, rhetorically asks, “If ya didn’t do it for God, who would ya do it for?” We were going to watch […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Ike Davis, Mets Fan Perspective, Mike Pelfrey, The Commitments |
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