 
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. |
On Jay Horwitz’s Amazin’ Conversations podcast this week, Jay reminisces with the SNY booth trio in this, their twentieth year on the mic. The host eventually retells the story of how he first met future color analyst Keith Hernandez…or attempted to meet him. JAY: In June of ’83, Frank Cashen calls me. “Jay, we traded for […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Important Tiebreakers, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Jay Horwitz, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Luisangel Acuna, Picking Up Runners Thanks, Gare. Like you said, it’s midnight in Manhattan, and this is no time to get cute, yet as we know, every first Monday night of May marks the return of the Met Gala to Manhattan, and whenever the Mets are playing at midnight Eastern Time on that same night, the game is stopped, wherever […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Mendoza, Dedniel Nunez, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Fashion, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Met Gala, Milestones, Molly Shannon, Pete Alonso, Steve Gelbs, The Pajama Game, Tyrone Taylor As a coping mechanism, I sometimes imagine there’s a series of Anti-Mets Classics — games so variously painful, frustrating and provoking that you’d only watch them again if forced to. In a CIA black site, perhaps. Or maybe in actual Hell. That’s actually not an unconvincing vision of the afterlife for those of us who won’t […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anti-Mets Classics, Brandon Waddell, Chris Devenski, Corbin Burnes, Danny Young, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Ryne Stanek, The Other Ryan Thompson, Vexing Losses All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Good start to a famous Russian novel; excellent advice for baseball bloggers. It’s easier to write about miserable failing baseball teams than it is to write about happy successful ones. Angst and agita drive clicks and sports-radio hits and they also generate […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jose Iglesias, Jose Urena, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Herget, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Holy Books, Tyrone Taylor I liked it better when ballplayers talked about “turning the page” on bad days. Sometime in the past decade or so, turning the page morphed into flushing, and not the charming village in Queens whose northwestern edge we know so well. “You gotta flush it” became the page-turning mantra of choice. Maybe nobody reads printed […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Frank Deford, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Lost in Space, Pete Alonso, Sideways, Vernacular That was a bad one. A bad one as in you shut off the TV and kept fixing it with a thousand-yard stare. It’s even crueler because once upon a time that was a good one: The Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit, with Harrison Bader striking the big blow, then went ahead when Starling Marte […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Harrison Bader, Losses, Phil Maton, Starling Marte You can never outguess baseball. Last time we saw the Mets, they were getting walked off in excruciating fashion by the Padres, a wrenching reversal that denied them a series win and an off-day on which to exhale. Next up: the other National League team threatening to run away and hide in the wild-card race. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Pfaadt, Diamondbacks, Geraldo Perdomo, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea Reed Garrett and Adam Ottavino were good, but Jake Diekman was not — handed a 4-3 lead in the ninth, he surrendered a pinch-hit double and a home run (Ketel Marte‘s second of the afternoon) to put the Mets in their familiar behind-the-eight-ball position before an out was recorded. How familiar? Since May 1 the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bad Relief Pitching, Diamondbacks, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jonahs, Ketel Marte, Paul Sewald, Reed Garrett The alchemy of desperation works in mysterious ways. The Mets… say their murky goodbye to Jorge Lopez; have an accountability meeting; decide they can do better for part-time catching and hitting with Luis Torrens than they any longer will with Omar Narváez; opt to provide regular reps for Christian Scott at Syracuse rather than let the rookie’s momentum stall […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alchemy, An Appreciation, Darryl Strawberry, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Retired Numbers, Starling Marte The recap of Wednesday’s debacle belongs in my blog partner’s already pretty big Hall of Fame, because Greg nailed it: That disaster, from its on-field component to its off-field sequel, might or might not be rock bottom for the 2024 season, but it was unquestionably the end of something. Somehow we all knew it, and I […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. 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