 
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 Phillies and the Padres fought the instinct to kick me out of bed this morning, which I appreciate. Strange as it is, they became my bedfellows on Saturday, the day I resumed an ability to watch baseball and not hate everything about it. Postseason will make people otherwise at odds find common cause. Our cause […]  25 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Postseason, Padres, Phillies, Spite, Strange Bedfellows, Strange Metfellows The pain of love A couple of hours prior to the first pitch of the National League Wild Card Series, I thought about my cat Avery. I think about my cat Avery every day, several times a day, since he died last December. I miss […] You’ve probably heard this before, but baseball is designed to break your heart. Twenty-nine of 30 fanbases are destined to have their teams’ seasons end other than the way they’d wanted — with a victory that doesn’t mean anything or a loss that means everything. If you’re one of the unlucky 29, there comes an afternoon […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Disappointment, Endings, Joe Musgrove, John Franco, Padres, Trent Grisham, Wild Card According to mathematics from whichever grade I learned percentages, three is fifty percent greater than two. According to how I felt waking up this morning to the knowledge the Mets would have a Game Three in the Wild Card Series versus how I felt yesterday morning when Game Two loomed as the conclusion to our […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Adam Ottavino, Basketball, Continuity, Edwin Diaz, Fatalism, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fan Philosophy, PitchCom, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido The good part is that Citi Field still knows how to bring the noise for a postseason game. I was there Friday night for Game 1 of the Wild Card Series (or whatever it’s called, I don’t really care), and the stadium was loud bordering on deafening — not just the A/V system, though that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Bad Fans, Booing, Disappointment, Josh Bell, Jurickson Profar, Max Scherzer, Padres, Starling Marte, Wild Card, Yu Darvish At 2:37 PM Thursday, 29½ hours before first pitch of Game One, I felt it. I was thinking about Sunday, potential Game Three, and how its start time is up to the dictates of television, reportedly fluctuating between its penciled-in 7:37 PM and its apparently ESPN-desired 4:07 PM, a slot that would become available if […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Anxiety, Buck Showalter, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Dread, Jacob deGrom, Max Scherzer, Starling Marte I packed an asterisk and a caveat as I set out for my 27th consecutive Closing Day. Unlike water bottles whose caps aren’t fully sealed, security waved them right through. A rain delay nudged Closing Day into Closing Night. Closing Night closed only so much. The door to Citi Field and the Mets’ ultimate 2022 fortunes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Batting Crown, Closing Day, Closing Night, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Mark Canha, Mychal Givens, Rain Delays, Trevor Williams On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card Good news: the Mets weren’t eliminated from winning their division Monday night, cleverly getting rained out while Atlanta (you’re not gonna believe this) lost. Not only did the Mets gain ground by not doing anything but pulling a tarp over the field, but Jeff McNeil overtook a declining Freddie Freeman in the batting race simply […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1997 Mets, National League East, Powerhouse Division, Rain, Team History Something I do when making real-world decisions is ask, “what’s the worst thing that could happen?” and then adjusting my plans as needed. (“I could get hit by a car that I won’t know is coming around that corner” = maybe don’t do that, while “the weather means the flight’s canceled and I get there […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chris Bassitt, Dansby Swanson, Disappointment, Matt Olson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wild Card |
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