The Mets’ second-half surge to the periphery of mediocrity ran into a roadblock Monday night: a team decidedly better than them. Not that the Mets can’t lose within their peer group or take random advantage of a contender bogged down in doldrums, but for the most part […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, Good Teams Beating Bad Teams, Jon Lester, Jose Bautista, Kevin Plawecki, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Neil Simon, Noah Syndergaard, Suckbomb With my lone natural rooting interest spiritually if not yet officially mathematically eliminated from contention for the National League East title, I find myself inadvertently pulling for some combination of whoever isn’t playing the Mets on a given night. For example, when Brandon Nimmo stuck it to the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Anthony Rendon, Cubs, Frank Lennox, Graciousness, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Rivals, Spoilers, Steven Matz, Victor Diaz Few baseball players attracted more nouns than Rusty Staub. Anybody can be described with adjectives. Most players are known simply as players, maybe identified by position. The late Daniel Joseph Staub, who died overnight in South Florida three days shy of his 74th birthday, had that part down cold: […] They scheduled a baseball game in the northeastern United States for March 29 and snow was on the ground within a week of its first pitch. Imagine that. You’ll have a harder time imagining the baseball being played under climate conditions ideally associated with the sport in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jason Jacome, Jay Hook, Moment of Silence, Nino Espinosa, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day Starters, Ray Burris, Second Game Starters, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tracy Stallard The first thing you remember about Ed Charles if you’re a Mets fan is how he rushed the pitcher’s mound at Shea Stadium, October 16, 1969. If those New York Mets had an In Action card, that picture would be its front side. Jerry Grote was hoisting Jerry Koosman, catcher and […] “You there in the orange and blue jammies, wake up,” Old Man Winter urged me Wednesday night. “The Mets are bringing in a big-name everyday player.” I rubbed the sleep from eyes and asked for whom my and my team’s hibernation should be so rudely interrupted. “Jay Bruce,” Old Man Winter said. “The Mets are signing Bruce […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Draft Day, Drew Gagnon, Frank Lary, Jay Bruce, Jeromy Burnitz, Moment of Silence, Pete Harnisch, Recidivist Mets, Roger Cedeno, Winter No doubt they faced each other plenty in the American League, but I wasn’t paying attention. That’s the beauty and perhaps the drawback of the two leagues maintaining distinct identities. I don’t have to be conscious of one of them. I’m a Mets fan, thus I’m a National League fan. If there’s somebody in the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Carlos Beltran, Jimmy Rollins, Moment of Silence, Phillies, Roy Halladay You really don’t notice coaches in major league baseball until they are pointed out, which isn’t often. Maybe it’s for something benign, like they planted tomatoes in bullpen or exchange particularly sharp low-fives when batters work out walks. Maybe it’s for something pleasant, like how well his advice is being processed by a player on […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Coaches, Dan Warthen, Don Baylor, Moment of Silence, Solly Hemus, Team History, Tom Seaver I’m not the type to carelessly leave a hat on a train, but on Sunday, I apparently carelessly left a hat on a train. I came home, realized I didn’t have it and inferred it rode the LIRR eastbound without me. If I wore hats regularly, I suppose I would have found it on my […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Caps, Comings, Empire State Building, Gerson Bautista, Goings, Jamie Callahan, Lena Russo, Moment of Silence, Stephen Nogosek Don’t trust what you see in September, they say. What I saw in September 2002 was a sign that life went on. It went on for almost another fifteen years. So maybe trust a little what you see in September. Hozzie the Cat, fifteen years a champ. Hosmer Mountain Beverage Cat Prince — known popularly […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Drew Smith, Hozzie the Cat, Lucas Duda, Moment of Silence |
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