 
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. |
[T]he ending always comes at last The Mets began this baseball season by playing the Florida Marlins. They suffered their first loss while playing the Florida Marlins. They absorbed their first serious body blow when they were swept by the Florida Marlins. They […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Etiquette, Beaky Buzzard, Bugs Bunny, Dan Uggla, Gaby Sanchez, Gary Carter, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Jon Niese, Marlins, Mets Managers, Mike Francesa, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Stanton, Soilmaster Stadium, Wally Backman Hate to break it to any of you who were keeping your October clear, but my co-blogger’s scenario has been thwarted, and the Mets have been eliminated from postseason play. It’s fitting, somehow, that we’d be eliminated in a game that descended from taut but aggravating (rejuvenated Lucas Duda hitting an artillery shell of a home […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Marlins, New Yankee Stadium, Yankees I love being a Mets fan, but I hate rooting for the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate supporting the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate investing any faith whatsoever in the Mets as a baseball team or as an organizational entity. But I do love being a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Australia, Casey Stengel, Condescension Toward Customers, David Wright, Delusions of Contention, Futility, Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, McFadden's, Mess, Mets Fans, VIP With Bobby Valentine’s non-hiring as manager of the Florida Marlins proving once again his predecessor’s 1973 utterance about it not being over until is over oh so true, one wonders if the key credential on his managerial résumé is the item that quietly did him in. Bobby V won a pennant for the Mets, yet […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Howe, Bobby Valentine, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Davey Johnson, Frank Howard, Fred Wilpon, George Bamberger, Gil Hodges, Grudges, Jeff Torborg, Jeff Wilpon, Jeffrey Loria, Jerry Manuel, Joe Frazier, Joe Torre, Managing, Marlins, Mets Managers, Mike Cubbage, Ownership, Roy McMillan, Salty Parker, Team History, Wes Westrum, Willie Randolph, Yogi Berra Last night Emily and I continued our childless week with another excellent dinner and a sunset walk along the High Line, New York City’s startlingly beautiful conversion of an ancient freight railway into a meadowland in the sky. The Mets were even obliging us by being delayed by rain down in San Juan, where they’d […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Howe, Expos, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins, Paranoia You know why Tuesday night’s loss to the Marlins felt as familiar as it felt sickening? Because it was very familiar. Thanks to Baseball Reference (how did I ever live without it?), I was able to find that the Mets have lost 68 road games to the Florida Marlins since their inception in 1993, including the […] It may temporarily bear the Marlins’ name, but Hiram Bithorn Stadium reeks of Expos, Expos and more Expos. It’s 2003 and 2004 all over again all of a sudden and we suck in ways we haven’t sucked in years, last year included. I think I may have even seen Eric Valent at the bat rack […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2004 Mets, Art Howe, Expos, Hateful Opponents, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins, Puerto Rico This would be a good time to be a drive-time disc jockey in medium-sized city with a persecution complex. If I were, I’d be working under the radio name of Resentful in the Morning, and I’d stir up my listeners to join me in a natural disdain for our local baseball team’s archrivals, whom I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dignity, Disdain, Fredi Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, Resentment, Sweep I was napping when Sunday afternoon’s game began. So were the Mets. When I awoke and flipped on the bedside radio, the first thing I heard from Wayne Hagin was something about trying to limit the damage. But the damage had been done. The Mets were down six-nothing and yet another starting pitcher…and it wasn’t even […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jon Niese, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium, The Shawshank Redemption That was a brutal way to lose a baseball game. I’m referring to tonight against Cody Ross and the Marlins, though I could be referring to Wednesday afternoon against the Nationals, Monday night against the Nationals, Sunday afternoon against the Giants, last Wednesday against the Reds or last Monday against the Reds. But then […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Ross, Johan Santana, Josh Johnson, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium |
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