 
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 Mets — ah, the Mets! Superlatives do not quite fit them, but now, just as in 1969, the name alone is enough to bring back that rare inner smile that so many of us wore as summer ended.” Summer, in a sense, has ended with the news that Roger Angell, who wrote the above sentence […] The withstanding has begun. The Mets are 1-0 in the What The Hell Are We Going To Do Now? era. It will last anywhere from six weeks to eight weeks to whenever it actually ends. When you see Max Scherzer glaring from a mound near you, you’ll know it’s over. For a spell on Thursday, it […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Pujols, Bobby Ewing, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Jeff McNeil, Max Scherzer, Obliques, Pete Alonso, Walkoffs Can the Mets win by seven and have that feel like an afterthought? It turns out they can — if the takeaway from the game isn’t a blast of a homer by Pete Alonso or a hustling triple by happily hale and hearty Brandon Nimmo or a host of hitting to break the second half of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Hope, Hopelessness, Injuries, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pitchers Did I want a pencil, the fella who sold me my program/scorecard asked me. Since the pencil was free and the paper bag with handles was a nickel, of course I said yes to the pencil with no eraser and not even NEW YORK METS written across it. Rule No. 1 of ballpark retail customer […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Citi Field, Doubleheaders, Jake Reed, Pencils, Splits, T-shirts, Tom Seaver Statue, Trevor Williams Pete Alonso just swung by to remind us that not every Met ending that oughta be happy winds up that way, nor do even the most promising of post-1986 Mets teams always play baseball like it oughta be. Or maybe Pete Alonso just swung — again. Last we saw him, he couldn’t help himself. It was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Catchers, Chasen Shreve, Colin Holderman, Coping, Curried Chicken, Didn’t Have It, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Injures, J.B. Smoove, James McCann, Jerry DiPoto, Mariners, More Like It, One-Run Defeats, Patrick Mazeika, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Triples, Tylor Megill What a strange game. The Mets and Mariners — those foes from so many past epics — met again under bottom-of-the-aquarium conditions, getting started late because of rain and squinting their way through the final innings because of fog. The meteorological strangeness was matched by plenty of the on-the-field variety, with Chris Bassitt looking frustrated with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Munoz, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, George Kirby, Jesse Winker, Mariners, Patrick Mazeika The Mets have now played the Mariners 16 times in their history, but such a matchup will always feel a bit like a videogame showdown with a weird little cousin. “You want to be the Mariners? C’mon, really? It’s the AL West — I don’t know any of those names. Hell, half of them look […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Marco Gonzales, Mariners, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred Taijuan Walker looked to be experiencing back discomfort on the mound and in the dugout throughout Thursday afternoon at Nationals Park. He pitched seven shutout innings while fielding his position like an athlete who happens to be the pitcher. We should all experience such discomfort. “A little tight, nothing serious,” was Tai’s postgame self-diagnosis. The National […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Double Plays That Oughta Be, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker Ah, look at all the long relievers Stephen Nogosek Waiting since Sunday All the long relievers 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Long Relief, Stephen Nogosek, The Beatles, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill I had a lousy Tuesday. No need for condolences — nothing of any real consequence went wrong, just a dog’s breakfast of bureaucracy and mischance and annoyances waiting at every turn. But it was enough to leave me in a foul mood, one that I tried to shake walking home over the Brooklyn Bridge, hopeful that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Joely Rodriguez, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Nats |
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