There are games you’re clearly fated to win, ones you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose, and ones where the outcome teeters and totters between joy and horror while your heart tries to keep pace. And then there are games like Monday night’s in Cincinnati — ones where the sheer insanity of everything gobbles up logic […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Banda, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Errors, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jerad Eickhoff, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Mac Scarce, Pete Alonso, Reds, Seth Lugo, Trevor May, Unlikely Events Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz It seems Kiko Calero and I shared a stadium twice last season, two games in late May when he pitched and I watched, yet I must confess I have zero recollection of him. It was too late in the action to be up and cruising for Daruma, hence all I can think is I was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, April And Out Mets, Bart Shirley, Bobby Gene Smith, Brady Clark, Brett Hinchliffe, Brian Rose, Bruce Chen, Casey Fossum, Chan Ho Park, Choo Choo Coleman, Clem Labine, Coco Lopez, Darren O'Day, Dennis Springer, Ed Lynch, Felix Heredia, Gary Matthews, Grant Roberts, Gustavo Molina, Herb Moford, Joe Ginsberg, Jonathan Hurst, Ken Henderson, Kevin Elster, Kiko Calero, Larry Burright, Lou Thornton, Luis Alvarado, Mac Scarce, Marlon Anderson, McKay Christensen, Mike Bishop, Mike Howard, Mike Matthews, Pete Schourek, Pete Walker, Ralph Terry, Ray Sadecki, Rich Chiles, Rick Sweet, Team History, Tim Foli, Victor Diaz |
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