 
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. |
In the course of three starts in his second term as a Met, Robert Stock has reminded me in some way, shape, or form of five different Met pitchers who came before him. Rick Anderson, a 29-year-old career minor leaguer, was called up as a stopgap starter in June of 1986. Hard to believe the 1986 […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1997 Mets, Butch Huskey, Don Schulze, Gabriel Ynoa, J.D. Davis, Jonathan Pintaro, Kodai Senga, Mad Men, Met Types, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, Moment of Silence, Rick Anderson, Robert Stock, Ron Swoboda, Sammy Stafura, Stopgap Starters, Tom Edens, Tom Filer Perhaps the reason the Mets seem on their way to their worst season since 1993 is they have too many Mets born in 1993. I wouldn’t expect a Major League Baseball team to discriminate on the basis of anything other […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 2018 Mets, Birth Years, Branon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Drew Smith, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob Rhame, Karma, Michael Conforto, P.J. Conlon, Robert Gsellman, Tyler Bashlor Met pinstripes are magical. Put any player in them and they perform wondrous feats. Players you’d all but forgotten about. Players you’d barely heard of before. Players on whose backs it would not occur to you to pursue a postseason berth. They’re all here, whoever they are, and they’re wearing Mets uniforms in the service […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Gabriel Ynoa, Improvisation, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Remember that weekend the Mets were vying for a Wild Card and the Minnesota Twins came into Citi Field with the worst record in baseball and you thought, “oh great, another one of those traps when the Mets inevitably play down to their competition,” and, sure enough, the Mets couldn’t score more than three runs […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All Hands On Deck, Erik Goeddel, Gabriel Ynoa, Jerry Blevins, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, T.J. Rivera, Twins Terry Collins could have removed Rafael Montero at several junctures of his outing against the Washington Nationals Monday night, which speaks to what seems to be Terry’s managing philosophy: a preference to do nothing versus an inclination to do something. Montero wasn’t in the game very long by conventional measures (though it felt like hours). When […] 66 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gabriel Ynoa, Managing, Nothing, Rafael Montero, Something, Terry Collins Ryan Schimpf can blast home runs, but I’m not quite sure what he was doing in the bottom of the 11th, when Wilmer Flores hit a ground ball his way with runners on first and third and one out. James Loney, who moves at the approximate speed of a continental shelf, was the runner on […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Neil Walker, Ryan Schimpf, Wilmer Flores |
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