 
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. |
“Bobby Knight told me this, ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words, a good offense wins.” Pitching and defense are splendid, except when they’re deployed against you. Jordan Zimmermann and three National relievers outpitched Jacob deGrom and Rafael […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jacob deGrom, Jordan Zimmermann, Lineups, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryan Zimmerman I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver In the spirit of one Miss Mary Richards, a spunky Minneapolis television news producer who probably rooted for the Rod Carew Twins if she rooted for any baseball team between 1970 and 1977, we offer a pressing two-part question. 1) Who can turn Mets fans on with his smile? 2) Who just took a nothing year and […] When (no ifs about it, let’s hope) Jacob deGrom is awarded the National League Rookie of the Year tonight, there will be a highlight package that features most prominently his record-tying eight consecutive strikeouts to begin his September 15 game against the Marlins at Citi Field. For the next year, probably for the rest of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Camouflage, Essential Metness, Jacob deGrom, Pinstripes, Snow Whites, Uniforms Happy Election Day! It’s your Metstitutional duty to vote for the candidates of your choice. You could do worse — and no better, in this analyst’s opinion — than theoretically casting a ballot for the following slate. • Juan Lagares, National League Gold Glove center fielder. This race will be called tonight. If Juan grabs the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Deserved Election, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Ken Boyer As a service to New York Mets fans who find themselves encountering an unfamiliar concept, Faith and Fear in Flushing provides the following helpful primer. Welcome to the battle for second place! Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Can you explain what this is exactly? With Monday night’s loss by the reeling Braves to the Pirates, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jim McAndrew, Sandy Alderson, Second Place, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver The Braves are out of the playoffs — and their cause of death was the Mets. The Pirates beat the Brewers, and the Mets finished the deed with a 10-2 decimation that didn’t seem as close as that score suggests. Let us therefore now observe a moment of silence … whoa, I seem to have badly misspelled […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Fredi Gonzalez, Hatred, Jacob deGrom, Turner Field Following a Monday night when it hit me just how few innings remain to this season, I sort of retroactively wish the Mets could have deprived us of two or three from their twelfth-to-last game of 2014. It was an extraordinary night at Citi Field through six. It was a night that was surely meant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Pete Falcone, Strikeouts, Team History In a few minutes, I shall require a diversion. Where there is deGrom, there is delight. Stadiums can sit all but empty, standings can tease with cruelty, seasons can run out of sand as captains cede reluctantly to the inevitable, but when you have a young starting pitcher who doesn’t give up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Attendance, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, Rich Chiles, Tommie Agee The best thing about tonight’s 4-3 victory over the Marlins? It was a relatively normal baseball game. It wasn’t Monday night’s six-error shitshow in which the Marlins won by sucking less. Nor was it Tuesday night’s ludicrous display of non-pitching, with Jon Niese pitching as badly as he could without actually losing and old non-friend Brad […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Managers, Marlins, Matt den Dekker, Terry Collins, Wally Backman |
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