 
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. |
First off, why do I always have to recap the losses? I need to speak to management. If you thought a 15-6 start meant a moratorium on asking what Terry Collins is thinking, well, you weren’t checking in with Mets Twitter as tonight’s game got away. Why pitch to Giancarlo Stanton when you don’t have to? Why […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Torres, Giancarlo Stanton, Michael Morse, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores Admittedly, that new Cuddyer smell that so intoxicated our nostrils when the Mets made their loud November move has grown faint. What’s that they say about vehicles losing their value as soon as they leave the dealership? Our new (technically pre-owned) right fielder hasn’t rolled up one additional mile since he pulled into our garage, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam LaRoche, Giancarlo Stanton, Jason Heyward, Jimmy Rollins, John Mayberry Jr., Michael Cuddyer, Sean Gilmartin Lucas Duda spent the spring trudging around left field until an intercostal strain and a dose of reality dictated that he stop. He then spent the summer in Las Vegas. When he returned, he went from left field to left out, with first base occupied by fellow reclamation project Ike Davis. Then Ike strained something (the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Brad Hand, Giancarlo Stanton, Lucas Duda, Rick Ankiel If you want to swim with the sharks, you’ve got to learn to outlast the Marlins. Or something like that. And son of a Rich Renteria, Monday night we sure as Orestes Destrade did. On the twentieth anniversary plus one day of the evening Anthony Young didn’t just not lose to but actually won against then-expansion […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Christian Yelich, Daniel Murphy, Dave Gallagher, Eddie Murray, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jeff McKnight, Juan Pierre, Marlins, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Thompson, The Shawshank Redemption At 3:59 PM EST this afternoon, New York Mets baseball will step outside, see its own shadow and scurry back indoors for what will seem like another couple of centuries of winter, but fret not. It will be at that very moment that we have reached the Baseball Equinox, that juncture on the Spherical Horsehide Calendar […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Baseball Equinox, Giancarlo Stanton Let’s get the part that made me mad out of the way: In the bottom of the first, Mike Baxter came to the plate for his first Citi Field at-bat since he was helped off the field on the night of June 1, after the amazing sprawling catch that preserved Johan Santana’s no-hit bid. In […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Citi Field, Food, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Baxter That darn Giancarlo Stanton really did it to us Sunday. What a bastard. The walkoff grand slam that added a fashionable dent to the fishy Home Run Sculpture? No, not that (though that sucked, too). I’m talking about Stanton’s first hit, the single to center that opened the bottom of the second, which was the Marlins’ […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dick Groat, Fiftieth Anniversary, Garry Templeton, Giancarlo Stanton, Jimmy Qualls, Jimmy Rollins, Juan Pierre, Julian Javier, No-Hitters, Pete Rose, Stan Javier, Team History, Tom Seaver Oh, your 2012 Mets. They bite and claw and fight and come back, so you can never ever give up on them. It’s an endearing quality in a team, particularly one pegged as a second-division outfit. Oh, your 2012 Mets. The second you get giddy, they crash and burn, leaving you in the fetal position. It’s […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Zambrano, Frank Francisco, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Justin Turner, Soilmaster Stadium |
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