The blog for Mets fans
who like to read

ABOUT US

Greg Prince and Jason Fry
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.

...And Sometimes Baseball Is Not Fun

by on 11 April 2012 1:30 am

The 2012 Mets have been recalled from Cooperstown.

It was a night of firsts. They lost their first game. They lost their first game that made you roll your eyes and mutter and swear and stalk around. They lost their first game in which they looked absolutely hopeless and star-crossed and fatally flawed.

All of which was […]

7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , ,

Baseball Is Fun

by on 10 April 2012 12:28 am

Baseball’s beautiful and elevating and timeless and pastoral and all those good high-minded things, but it’s also a lot of fun — particularly when things go off the rails and the game is played roly-poly, pell-mell, tumble-bumble, like it was in the ninth inning tonight. And when you win. That’s important too.

But let’s not get […]

15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , , ,

Highway to the Duda Zone

by on 7 April 2012 11:09 pm

Perhaps you share my conviction that there’s Opening Day and then there’s Everything Else. We just had Opening Day. It was real and it was spectacular. But by Saturday, it was over.

So on to Everything Else! Onto the second game of the season! Onto Citi Field at Shea Stadium! If they’re having more than one […]

10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , ,

As Baseball Finds Its Voice

by on 5 March 2012 3:40 pm

Tonight shortly after six, when Dillon Gee faces the Nationals’ Roger Bernadina with the first pitch that pretends to matter in 2012, strike one would be most preferable. Shortly thereafter, when Long Beach’s own John Lannan returns the favor sixty feet and six inches from Andres Torres, our new center fielder is advised to take […]

10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Lesser Walls of Flushing

by on 1 November 2011 2:47 am

So one thing we knew was coming has arrived: Citi Field will shrink next year. The old walls will still be there, but in front of them will be new ones — lower and closer to home plate. They’ll more or less be in the places you read they’d be in, creating dimensions that are […]

20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , ,

Uprising!

by on 22 September 2011 10:44 pm

Short of doing something that will get you arrested, you can’t affect the outcome of a baseball game. Your hooting and hollering does nothing. Neither does praying, cajoling or threatening. Baseball takes no notice of your swaggering overconfidence and ignores your pretend humility. It does not care that you care. It does not care that […]

16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , ,

Between Their Ears

by on 21 September 2011 2:22 am

In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your […]

16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sense? Baseball? Ha!

by on 17 September 2011 10:14 am

“Hi, I’m sort of new to baseball, and I’m hoping you can help me understand it.”
“I’ll try.”
“Great. My first question is about the Mets.”
“Which is?”
“That’s the team that totally sucked on Thursday, right?”
“Yes, that’s correct.”
“I mean they couldn’t do anything right.”
“You got it.”
“They played a pretty bad team, didn’t they?”
“Yes, they played the Washington Nationals.”
“And […]

8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , ,

The Bureaucrats Have Won, and Other Anniversary Tales

by on 12 September 2011 2:25 am

You know that Toshiba ad where they ship the laptop without the shock-resistant hard drive, and there’s a nationwide power outage and a guy drinks bad milk and turns into a zombie and bites his roommate and then there are zombies everywhere? (You’re a Mets fan, you have to know it.) I imagine Major League […]

20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , ,

Flash Mob Moved to 9th Inning

by on 11 September 2011 1:55 am

Saturday’s Mets game can be broken down into three convenient segments.

1) Top of the first through the top of the eighth
Cubs, taking advantage of dopey defense and ordinary Capuano (which is to say solid yet relentlessly unexciting), build 3-0 lead over Mets, who, in turn, do nothing with Randy Wells.

No further comment necessary.

2) Bottom of […]

2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post Print This Post | , , , , , , ,
Older Entries »  
  « Newer Entries