One of the great frustrations of being a fan is how different a team can look on successive days. In one game absolutely nothing works; less than 24 hours later everything does. Or vice versa, of course. Players know this far better than we do and respond to it with a studied stoicism that we sometimes […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Rizzo, Bartolo Colon, George Weiss, James Loney, Jason Heyward, Johnny Murphy, Reggie Jackson, Steve Chilcott, Whitey Herzog 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 When my son was four years old, we went to Shea one horrifically hot day, watched the Mets fall behind, watched them try to catch up in the ninth, watched Carlos Delgado hit a long drive that was headed out of the park … and saw Willie Harris, that bringer of Metsian misery, leap impossibly […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Heyward, Willie Harris Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson If the 2010 Mets get off to a bad start on the field or once again demonstrate that they’re incompetent and/or tone-deaf about treating injuries, building ballclubs or relating to fans, we’re going to get typecast. We’ll be fans of the Big Team That Can’t, the grizzled, paranoid saps who trudge around accompanied by our […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Citi Field, Ike Davis, Jason Heyward, Spring Training |
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