 
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. |
Maybe I need to see the therapist of my blog partner’s imaginings, because I figure any sane counselor would tell me and the Mets that we’re better off apart. Right now, we’re making each other insane, night after night. On Friday night the Mets jumped out to an early 2-0 lead over what used to be […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Absurdity, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Nationals, Pete Alonso After 45 years as a baseball fan, I’m pretty much fully formed: I have my habits as a fan, a few rituals (for instance, if you’re at the stadium, you get food or hit the john while the Mets are up, not while they’re in the field), and I’m set. But I’m not completely formed. For […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Disappointment, Edwin Diaz, Hope, J.D. Davis, Jonathan Villar, Juan Soto, Mason Thompson, Nationals, Rain Seeing baseball in person always reminds me that the game is really two different experiences. The view from your couch lets you play HD voyeur, seeing everything from the pitcher’s grip to how the catcher frames each pitch — and with stats and expert analysis handed to you, like a surgeon taking tools from an […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Dansby Swanson, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Freddie Freeman, James McCann, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo First off, it didn’t rain. Anybody ready to take that for granted in the middle of a season when it anecdotally “always” rains? Chance of scattered thunderstorms, the forecast warned. I stuffed my disposable poncho I never dispose of and my portable Mets umbrella that I try not to use because then it would get […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Aaron Loup, Citi Field, Edwin Diaz, Jeff Keppinger, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Promenade, Rich Hill, Trivia There are games you’re clearly fated to win, ones you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose, and ones where the outcome teeters and totters between joy and horror while your heart tries to keep pace. And then there are games like Monday night’s in Cincinnati — ones where the sheer insanity of everything gobbles up logic […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Banda, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Errors, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jerad Eickhoff, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Mac Scarce, Pete Alonso, Reds, Seth Lugo, Trevor May, Unlikely Events If there’s one thing I’ve learned in more than four decades of having my heart ripped out by baseball, it’s this: Don’t ever assume you’ve hit rock bottom. A reasonable person might call the Mets taking eight innings to blow a five-run lead over the Pirates, with Edwin Diaz surrendering the fatal runs, rock bottom. But no, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Jacob Stallings, Pirates, Walkoff Losses You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill Stop me if you’ve heard these before: 1) The Mets win a thriller of a first game of a jury-rigged doubleheader. We’ve been down this two-lane highway that runs out of regulation road too soon too many times to count efficiently of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Boxberger, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Anderson, Brewers, Bruce Boxleitner, Corbin Burnes, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Humidity Night, Jacob deGrom, Jamoches, Jeff McNeil, Jose Peraza, Mama's of Corona, Nick Tropeano, Robert Stock, Seven-Inning Scams One half of a season is behind the New York Mets and so is the rest of the National League East. You can’t ask for a much better situation following 81 games. The chips don’t settle that way very often. The Mets have finished the statistical first half in first place six times previously. They’ve won […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bette Midler, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Bunting, Depth, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, First Half, First Place, Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto, Neckerchiefs, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Team History, Trevor May, Tylor Megill James McCann sure has some strange at-bats. I’m not talking about the crotch readjustment before every pitch, which I really want Steve Gelbs to inquire about one day. (Did his Little League coach try to get him to stop? Has his mom and/or wife ever wished he wouldn’t?) I’m talking about the fact that the Mets’ […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Andy Beck, Braves, Charlie Morton, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Mets History, Todd Radom, Tylor Megill, Uniforms, Unlikely Events |
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