 
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. |
Sometimes when I go grocery shopping, I’ll grab an item that I’m pretty sure we’re out of, only to come home, start putting things away and discover, oh, we didn’t need another of these. The Mets can surely relate. They went out and mindlessly tossed another NLCS Game One in their cart on Wednesday night at […] You have to laugh it off. “Ha.” There ya go. Seriously, though — the Mets just endured their worst-ever postseason loss in terms of run differential, and it wasn’t even close. Dodgers 9 Mets 0. The Mets had never lost in the spotlight portion of October by more than six. Few teams get beat by a […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2024 Postseason, Blowouts, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen Use, Dodgers, Jack Flaherty, Jesse Winker, Kodai Senga, Robert Gsellman, Rueful Laughter, Sean Manaea, Tyler Pill, Worst Postseason Run Differential The good news? The Braves lost. And the Mets were so bad so early against the Phillies that all involved — players and fans alike — essentially moved on even before the game was over, cramming it into the memory hole and hurrying away. Emily and I were at Citi Field, sitting in the front of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Alec Bohm, Blowouts, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Eddy Alvarez, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Iglesias, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Position Players Pitching By the time Saturday afternoon rolled around our 2024 beach vacation was at an end: house cleaned, last Long Beach Island breakfast consumed, farewells said, and car filled for the trip back to Brooklyn, the heat wave we’d been happy to miss, and normal life. Heading up the Garden State Parkway, your correspondent was frankly weary. […] The Mets lost by the typographically correct if competitively averse score of 21-3 in Saturday afternoon’s makeup game versus the Braves, the day portion of a split-admission doubleheader necessitated by an April rainout and cruelty. The Mets were losing only 13-3 when they were using pitchers; utilityman Danny Mendick allowed eight runs in the ninth, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Blowouts, Danny Mendick, Denyi Reyes, Position Players Pitching 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 As the Mets scored their first seven runs on Wednesday night, I felt a tinge of sadness for the Orioles pitcher who surrendered them. It wasn’t a particularly ceremonial surrender. No white flags, just pitches that didn’t have much fight left in them. I wouldn’t claim to know if the same could be said for […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Blowouts, Kevin Pillar, Matt Harvey, Taijuan Walker Well, Mama told me there’d be days like these. My mother also knows baseball and has a head for business. So she told me some other things too. For example, she told me that days like these are a lot more likely if you’ve got cheapjack owners who can’t or won’t pay to put the best product […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, ESPN, Hunter Strickland, Paul Sewald, Rick Porcello, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler When I was in junior high, I’d carry a Bic pen in the front left pocket of my jeans and, at some point in the course of the school year, the pen would explode. Several points, actually…and a whole pack of pens. I never understood that. It was just hanging around during one class, then […] I really thought I had MLB At Bat licked. Volunteer duties and a kayaking trip kept me away from the Mets’ matinee against the Nats (I know, smallest of violins) and my post-vacation brain forgot to set the DVR to record the game. So when I arrived home a little before 8, my path to semi-responsible […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, Disappointment, Fans, MLB At Bat, Montreal Expos, Nationals, Paul Sewald, Steven Matz, Tyler Bashlor |
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