 
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. |
With his no-doubt, game-tying sixth-inning homer Sunday afternoon in Washington, Lucas Duda moved himself into serious contention for quite possibly, maybe, just maybe leading the 2011 Mets in home runs. Duda is fourth on the team right now with nine. He’s one behind Jason Bay for third. Bay has ten, or two fewer than David Wright, […]  1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Home Runs, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda I’ve always kind of hated myself for liking Sept. 1. When your team is in a pennant race, Sept. 1 feels like the car has shifted into top gear: You’re gunning for the finish line, and the only duties set to be assumed by rookies involve blowouts. If anything, you fear what may happen when your […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Jason Bay, Josh Satin, Josh Stinson, Lucas Duda, Rookies, Ruben Tejada In tribute to those wonderful people who show up to share the 7 train with us Mets fans for two glorious weeks every August and September, let’s just say the Mets lost in straight sets to the Marlins Tuesday night, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 0-0, 5-0, 0-0, 1-0. Apparently you can only volley with Javier […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | CSI: Flushing, David Wright, Javier Vazquez, Justin Turner, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 121st game in any Mets season, the “best” 122nd game in any Mets season, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2006 Mets, Dave Marshall, David Wright, Fiftieth Anniversary, Lastings Milledge, Team History, The Happiest Recap Ah, Garbage Time. Been a while. (Theatrical sigh.) Garbage Time is weird. Losing generally produces a dull ache instead of the sharp pain felt while you still dream of the postseason, but winning, weirdly, can be more fun. And I know why: When your team’s aiming at first place, or the wild card, or even just has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Garbage Time, Padres I saw this New York Times piece on my iPad and spent the next couple of hours trying to keep my blood from boiling. I love the Times, but Jim Luttrell’s post is tone-deaf about Mets fans specifically, baseball fans in general, and ignores the actually interesting currents and tribes of the city in favor of […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Heath Bell, Injuries, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Media Criticism, Mike Baxter, New York Times Let’s revisit two days ago’s rather optimistic Mets recap post, shall we? (You don’t want to? Tough. I don’t particularly want to either, but I’m driving this train.) Bobby Parnell may be learning to be successful without his best slider, but nothing a pitcher can learn will get him through days when all he has is his […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Soilmaster Stadium How many duck-and-cover games have the Mets played in Soilmaster Stadium, anyway? And how many of those ended with some fleet, scrappity Marlin hitting a ball just past the first baseman’s glove, or just through the drawn-in infield, or just hugging the third-base line, or just catastrophic enough in some unanticipated way to spell doom […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Hope, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey, Soilmaster Stadium The little black cloud narrative of Mets fandom has been overdone in recent years — our team was one good swing away from the World Series in 2006 and played highly meaningful games on the last day of the season in 2007 and 2008, which the good people of Pittsburgh and Kansas City would take […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Francisco Rodriguez, Jason Isringhausen, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson David Wright is one second opinion away from going on the Disabled List. MRI revals lower back stress fracture. Examination of Mets roster reveals no obvious alternatives for third base or the batting order. True, he was mostly sucking, but just as true, he’s David Wright. Rest is allegedly what’s required to get this injury better. […] |
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