Two annual rituals of the baseball season cross paths in the middle of every Met June: the instinctive recollection of monumental trades that took place this time of year in years gone by and the reappearance, via clever scheduling nobody asked for, of former friends and foes who now wear American League garb. It seems […]
 
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. |
 22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Berenyi, Corey Patterson, Dan Norman, Dave Kingman, Doug Flynn, Interleague Play, Juan Samuel, Managers, Manny Acta, Nick Markakis, Pat Zachry, Paul Siebert, Sluggo, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver, Trades, Ty Wigginton The Roberto Alomar trade aside, is there anything about the Cleveland Indians to stir the blood of Mets fans? Has an Indians diehard ever gotten up in arms about what’s transpiring at Shea Stadium or Citi Field? When Mets-Indians actually compares favorably to such epic tilts as Mariners-Cardinals, Blue Jays-Padres and … ZZZZZ, oh, I’m sorry, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Indians, Interleague Play, Jason Donald, Manny Acta Welcome to a special Monday edition of Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Great American Ball Park 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Al Leiter, Flashback Friday, Great American Ball Park, Reds Call it a laugher that didn’t seem that funny at the beginning. Despite it being hot enough in Baltimore to turn steel into taffy, Mike Pelfrey couldn’t seem to get loose. Or something else was wrong with him for a worrisome percentage of the game: From the beginning we were faced with the old Pelf, looking […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Camden Yards, Chris Carter, Jesus Feliciano, Mike Pelfrey, Rituals Admit it. You’ve done it. You’ve done it out loud or you’ve done it in your mind. You’ve done it at everybody wearing a Mets uniform, and you’ve been doing it since a year ago Saturday night whenever the situation has called for it. You’ve done this: “TWO HANDS! USE TWO HANDS!” The Mets celebrated the first […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fundamentals, Heartbreak, Luis Castillo, Ruben Tejada, Second Base, Two Hands I have adopted a new all-purpose rating system lately, inspired by the presence on the New York Mets pitching staff of a certain knuckleballing journeyman who has won our hearts and made me lose my mind. • If I like something, it is “rad”. • If I don’t care for it, it is “icky”. Why have I decided […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Ed Rapuano, Gary Cohen, Interleague Play, knuckleball, Orioles, R.A. Dickey, Rod Barajas, Ron Darling This is no one-night stand Ooh, wait! I’ve got another one! I know you guys are sick of me chiming in, but I can’t help it. Now that we’ve experienced the first no-hitter in Mets history and […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, John Maine, Jon Matlack, Jon Niese, No-Hitters, One-Hitters, Pedro Martinez, Shawn Estes, Team History Don’t worry folks, I’m just the amuse-bouche until Greg arrives with the main course. Several times I’ve had the experience of bringing someone to the first baseball game they’ve ever seen, or at least paid any attention to. I find it nerve-wracking: You hope for a crackling game full of reversals and anxiety and perhaps a […] Stephen Strasburg is baseball’s best pitcher. Not just now, but forever. I know it’s true because he pitched seven sensational innings Tuesday night and Bob Costas’s drool seeped through my television screen while it happened. As Strasburg struck out fourteen Pirates in seven innings, Costas all but dug up the late Walter Johnson just for […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lastings Milledge, Stephen Strasburg Between all-purpose busyness and an awesome, awesomely exhausting wedding in Braves country, I’d missed my Mets, whose recent admirable gaffing of Marlins had been relegated to condensed games peered at blearily on At Bat. So it was a relief to find myself pottering around my own kitchen with the Mets on at a normal time […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Citi Field, Expectations, Fathers and Sons, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Mike Pelfrey, Padres |
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