 
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. |
It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses. Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist. Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Harrison Bader, Julio Teheran, Omar Narvaez, Pete Alonso, Raisel Iglesias, Reynaldo Lopez, Tommy Milone By some stroke of coincidence, the Mets have visited Atlanta on the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries of Hank Aaron’s 715th career home run, which is swell, because what decent baseball fan doesn’t adore and revere the legacy of Hank Aaron? The Mets have to play the Braves at some point of every season. Might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2004 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Cole Sulser, Comebacks, Dan Wheeler, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Hank Aaron, Harry Parker, Jake Diekman, John Milner, Jorge Lopez, Julio Teheran, Reed Garrett, Scott Erickson, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays A few weeks ago I came across an article previewing brand spanking new SunTrust Park. It said that Braves fans were certain to enjoy some fantastic feature or another, which caused me to chuckle internally, because nobody really has an inkling of what a ballpark is going to turn into until experience replaces expectation. After […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Braves, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Leadoff Home Runs, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Position Players Pitching, Relief Pitchers Hitting, Sean Gilmartin, SunTrust Park, Team History, Unknowables, Weathervane Rooting As the Long Island Rail Road was depositing me and several hundred like-minded individuals at what is still the Shea Stadium stop as far as I’m concerned late on Monday morning, I thought of all the metaphors suitable to occasions like Opening Day. A blank slate. A clean piece of paper. A coat of white […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, De Facto Designated Hitter, Eric O'Flaherty, Familiar Faces, Glenn Sherlock, Julio Teheran, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Six Feet Under, Wilmer Flores Thirty-thousand of us were dying to be hypocrites Tuesday night. We wanted to pull one of those dazzling Asdrubal Cabrera spinoramas in our souls, execute a spectacular turn of sentiment and roar for the stranger at whom we’d been directing our derision loudly or slyly every time we saw him. Some of us preached and […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Campbell, Impatience, Jay Bruce, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Patience, Pinch-Hitting, Travis d'Arnaud Addison Reed looked tired. Travis d’Arnaud looked lost. Asdrubal Cabrera looked determined. Jeurys Familia at first looked vulnerable, then unbeatable. Eric Campbell looked happy to be there. Josh Smoker looked ecstatic to be there. It’s not enough for me to watch the players on my team play ball. I now find myself thinking along with them, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Curtis Granderson, Eric Campbell, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Pennant Race, September, Team Effort, Travis d'Arnaud For nine innings Saturday night, you might have believed you were watching the Mets perform in historically frustrating fashion, better known as just another game from the past eight weeks. On April 30, the Mets had risen to eight games above .500, Michael Conforto was soaring atop an OPS of 1.118 and the only change […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1985 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Dario Alvarez, Darryl Strawberry, Extra Innings, Frank Lary, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, Jim Maloney, John Tudor, Johnny Lewis, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Ken Dayley, Larry Bearnarth, Moment of Silence, Parks & Recreation, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Team History In this post-primary, pre-convention interregnum when we speak of presumptive nominees, I must confess I was nervous when the Mets were declared presumptive winners, perhaps sweepers, of the Atlanta Braves in advance of this past weekend’s series at Citi Field. The Braves have been remarkably bad in 2016. The Mets had been pretty good to […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Julio Teheran, Offensive Futility, One-Hitters, Sweeps If you had money on the Mets pummeling Braves ace Julio Teheran, well, I hope you dropped by the corner store and bought a whole bunch of Lotto tickets. The Mets scorched Teheran from the get-go, when Curtis Granderson drove one off the facing of the Pepsi Porch. They kept it up with Daniel Murphy‘s […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Jacob deGrom, Julio Teheran, Milestones, Records, Yankees |
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