 
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 Toronto Blue Jays? They still have those? That’s not meant to be a slam on the level of Bill Terry’s notorious “is Brooklyn still in the league?” or Charlie Dressen’s equally karma-busting “the Giants is dead!” But the dynastic Jays of the early ’90s and their dome that seemed so of the moment haven’t been front […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bill Pecota, Blue Jays, Bob Geren, David Wright, Derek Bell, Dwight Gooden, Hideo Nomo, Position Players Pitching, Rob Johnson, Robert Carson, SCTV Jason and I took advantage of our self-employed status to enjoy an ad hoc self-employed businessman’s special at Citi Field Thursday afternoon. Our respective gaggles of gigs may not guarantee the most secure of financial existences, but when you can get up and go to a weekday afternoon game, I’d have to say there are […] Try to be cool and analytical all you want, but if you’re a fan eventually you’ll give in to fury and bloodlust. I’M NEVER ATTENDING ANOTHER GAME UNLESS THEY RELEASE LUIS CASTILLO BY MORNING! AARON HEILMAN MUST BE MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLAND WITHOUT EVEN A VOLLEYBALL FOR COMPANY! CHAIN DOUG SISK […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Robert Carson, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins John Axford, the Brewers’ closer who looks enough like George Custer that he could spend the offseason taking part in re-enactments at Little Big Horn, recently blew a save and had to depart before facing to the media. So left behind an apologetic and rather charming note, one that ended with “Cliché… cliché… cliché… another cliché. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, David Wright, Fans, Mike Baxter, Talk Radio, Terry Collins After re-editing the 1985 highlight video in such a manner to reignite the whole Roe v. Wade controversy (because it was such an abortion), SNY tries to make it up to us by presenting Mets Yearbook: 1962. It debuts Thursday night at 8:00 and reairs at 10:00, in concert with the channel’s 50 Greatest Mets […] Seven scoreless from Jamie Moyer’s spiritual younger brother from another mother Miguel Batista…spectacular. Daniel Murphy skipping a ball between Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s strides and through the shortstop hole Gary Cohen had detected a moment earlier…delicious. Terry Collins ordering a squeeze bunt and Ronny Cedeño executing it to two-nothing perfection…wunderbar! David Wright…superlatives implied. So many marvelous morsels to chew on for […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closers, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Miguel Batista That darn Giancarlo Stanton really did it to us Sunday. What a bastard. The walkoff grand slam that added a fashionable dent to the fishy Home Run Sculpture? No, not that (though that sucked, too). I’m talking about Stanton’s first hit, the single to center that opened the bottom of the second, which was the Marlins’ […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dick Groat, Fiftieth Anniversary, Garry Templeton, Giancarlo Stanton, Jimmy Qualls, Jimmy Rollins, Juan Pierre, Julian Javier, No-Hitters, Pete Rose, Stan Javier, Team History, Tom Seaver Oh, your 2012 Mets. They bite and claw and fight and come back, so you can never ever give up on them. It’s an endearing quality in a team, particularly one pegged as a second-division outfit. Oh, your 2012 Mets. The second you get giddy, they crash and burn, leaving you in the fetal position. It’s […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Zambrano, Frank Francisco, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Justin Turner, Soilmaster Stadium Spiritual predecessors of your 2012 Mets? Listening to Terry Collins in his postgame media sessions makes me think he is the model for a dozen “manager” characters from a dozen underwhelming baseball movies: focused, straightforward, likes fine what he does for a living, only dabbles in nuance if so compelled by reporter’s interrogation. But watching […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad News Bears, David Wright, Marlins Park, Mike Baxter, R.A. Dickey, Terry Collins, Walter Matthau The high-flying, temporarily much-beloved, pitch-count-focused, never-say-die Mets arrived in Miami to find the Marlins in the home version of their horrible new uniforms and ensconced in their horrible new park before a somewhat larger number of their horrible non-fans than we’re used to seeing. There was a lot new there, on both sides, but one thing […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Greg Dobbs, Jeffrey Loria, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Marlins Park |
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