I was uneasy about Wednesday night, as if the shadow of the past was reaching out for the Mets. It started with news that Jed Lowrie is alive and well and back in Oakland, perfectly ambulatory and hitting home runs now that his knee has been surgically repaired. It turns out, in whatever the opposite […]
 
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. |
You remember where you were for the truly big trades that reorder a franchise, the ones that you know are lines between before and after. The winter day when I saw in the newspaper that Gary Carter, the ebullient yet tough-as-nails All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos, was coming to the Mets. The summer afternoon spent eyeing […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Hope, Indians, Isaiah Greene, Josh Wolf, Ownership, Steve Cohen, Trades When the Mets don’t play, the Mets don’t get eliminated. We may have found the 2020 formula for relative success. On Friday night, the Mets were rained out in Washington. As the evening went along, the palest of suns shone on their fortunes. Philadelphia lost. San Francisco lost, despite the best efforts of heretofore lovable scamp […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2020 Mets, Faux Pennant Race, Hope, Pennant Race, Penultimate Day, Saturdays, Slenderella, Slight Delusions of Contention, Stupid Marlins, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. There’s a new world comin’ If I have one certainty as a Mets fan, it’s that no […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Darryl Strawberry, Draft, Hope, Sports Illustrated, Tom Seaver, Tucker Ashford, Youth Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Aug. 6, 2007 was an off-day for the Mets. The day before, a Mets pitcher who will remain nameless had finally secured his 300th victory, a milestone future generations will note came wearing the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Wilmer Flores Ready to kick that football, Mets fans? I’m not talking about the unasked-for arrival of a certain inferior sport before its time. Rather, I’m talking about Lucy Van Pelt and her ongoing invitation for Charlie Brown to kick the football she’s holding. Lucy, you probably remember, invariably yanked the football away, causing poor Charlie Brown to let […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Hope, Robbie Ray, Steven Matz, Wild Card When is taking an 11-1 lead to the ninth inning not a laugher? The answer isn’t “when you give the ball to Chris Mazza and wind up wondering if he can get three outs before the other guys score 10,” though Friday night’s game felt that way for a fidgety spell. No, the answer is when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Billy Crystal, Braves, Greg Maddux, Hope, John Olerud, Justin Wilson, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Wild Card, Zack Wheeler The Mets took two out of three from the Royals. Their unlikely wild-card march has them two games behind the Cubs for possession of the second N.L. spot — but they’ve drawn even with fellow contenders Philadelphia and Milwaukee. That’s the upshot of a long weekend of baseball. Of course, that’s the straightforward solution to a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Hope, J.D. Davis, Pennant Race, Perspective, Pete Alonso, Royals |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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