 
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. |
I wish the Mets weren’t already out of the pennant race. I wish the Mets weren’t always getting their brains beaten in by the Washington Nationals. I wish the Mets weren’t always falling apart after the All-Star break.  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, Eric Campbell, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Nationals, Pennant Race, Perspective, Wish Fulfillment The goal of every baseball fan this time of year is to endure the All-Star break while complaining about its existence as much as possible. It’s interminable, it’s endless, it’s too long. Find some more synonyms. Traditionally, by Wednesday it’s completely outlived its utility, yet they went and extended it a few years ago to […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Franchise Four, Jacob deGrom, PItching I’m still kvelling from Jacob deGrom in the All-Star Game last night. Seriously. I should be more upset that the National League did not uphold the honor of the essentially meaningless midseason exhibition (home field, schmome field; Mets in five), but p’shaw! to that. A decision for Jacob would have been swell and an MVP […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Jacob deGrom The Mets, for all the agita surrounding them, went to the other side of a fair continent and returned with a 4-2 trip. That’s not bad. In fact, it’s pretty far from bad. So why are so many Mets fans — most definitely including me — so prone to rending of garments, gnashing of teeth and […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Michael Cuddyer, Wilpons The Mets won a game today, and in case you had any doubt, winning most definitely feels better than losing. So how’d they win? By the skin of their teeth, actually. They got their usual terrific starting pitching, with Jacob deGrom throttling the Brewers. They got just enough hitting — TWO WHOLE RUNS, MA! And they […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Milestones, Steven Matz, Young Pitching Marv Throneberry, legend has it, was once crestfallen to discover that his birthday cake had been devoured by his Mets teammates before he got a piece — to which Casey Stengel cracked that “we wuz gonna give you a piece, Marv, but we wuz afraid you would drop it.” I don’t know if the Mets got Jacob deGrom a cake for […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Jacob deGrom, Marv Throneberry, Nationals, Ruben Tejada, Sean Gilmartin, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller Welp, that first West Coast trip is out of the way, and the Mets went 3-4, but 2-87 if you adjust the results by Depressed Met Fan Black Cloud Overhead Factor. 2-87 is obviously horrible, and in our spiritual standings the Mets are now 10,462 games out of first place. 3-4, on the other hand, is not horrendous […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores Sunday afternoon found me driving a rental car through deteriorating weather from Boston to New York, listening to the Mets try to salvage a game from the Marlins and their recently-civilian manager. The Mets were trying to escape their Miami enemies and what the weather would do to departures at New York’s airports. Between these two […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Padres, Ruben Tejada, West Coast Trips I love those interludes when a given Met can do no wrong. Wilmer Flores is in smack in the midst of one of them right now. It is his golden hour. Nobody’s calling him a stiff after the last two games against the Phillies. I still think he looks stiff in the field, but has he […] |
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