 
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, wearing blue, beat the Reds, wearing red and white, by a score of 7-4 on July 4th, and what could be better than that? OK, both teams were wearing god-awful hats from which independence should have been declared, and the Reds continue to ruin their perfectly good uniforms with a black drop shadow that […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Almora Jr., Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Hunter Greene, Matt Reynolds, Reds, Taijuan Walker Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz Luis Rojas might as well be loping along with a rod and reel over his shoulder, ambling to the creek down yonder to see if the catfish are biting. That’s how much urgency he seems to commit to managing in a game in the middle of September, a game in which his team’s chances are […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Foreigner, Jake Reed, Luis Rojas, Rock ‘n’ Jock, Roger McDowell, Sense of Urgency, Snuffy Smith Elton John’s “Levon” was “born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas Day when the New York Times said, ‘God is dead, and the war’s begun.’” What exactly does that mean? As Jimmy Rabbitte said in The Commitments regarding the lyrics to “A Whiter Shade of Pale” in the imaginary interview he conducted throughout […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, Albert Almora Jr., Bernard Gilkey, Blowouts, Bobby Bonilla, Braves, David Peterson, Debuts, Elton John, Lance Johnson, Mark Clark, Position Players Pitching, Procol Harum, Rico Brogna, Sean Reid-Foley, Team History, The Commitments, Thomas Szapucki, Todd Hundley The Mets have played a fair number of snoozy low-scoring games this year, but on Tuesday they played a fun low-scoring one — a genuine pitchers’ duel, followed by a sequence of unlikely events, capped off by a satisfying cameo for one of the stranger secret weapons they’ve had in a long time. The pitchers’ duel […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Dom Smith, Freddy Galvis, John Means, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Orioles, Patrick Mazeika, Unlikely Events, Walkoffs And so it came to pass on the seventh day that the Mets had played six games in a row, one each day, as the Great Scorekeeper intended. It took them weeks to reach such a state of grace, playing baseball every day without interruption, but on the seventh day, a.k.a. Sunday, that became their […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Fences, Grooves, J.D. Davis, Schedules, Taijuan Walker, Untracked Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Coors Field, Discontent, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Gary DiSarcina, German Marquez, Jacob deGrom, Jonathan Villar, Rockies, Rule Changes, Strikeouts When the word “designated” enters the clubhouse conversation, ballplayers must get a little glum. If you’re told you’re a designated hitter, it means your glove is deemed superfluous. If you’re told you’re designated for assignment, it means the entirety of you is deemed superfluous. Until somebody declares different, the NL reverts to a DH-free zone […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Ali Sanchez, Bill Withers, Brad Brach, Corey Oswalt, Designated for Assignment, Guillermo Heredia, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee Boys, gather round. I’ve got something important to say. For those of you who haven’t met me yet, I’m here to show you how to win. Don’t feel bad that you’ve got to hear it from me. Nobody you know was going to tell you. They’re too polite. You haven’t won because of your surroundings. You […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Attitude Adjustment, Droughts, New York Championships |
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