 
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 wasn’t raining Tuesday night. The problem was one of tenses — not what was happening weather-wise but what had happened. It wasn’t raining, but it had rained. Considerably. Considerably as in “enough that they give the concentration of rain a proper name and track it over the ocean like it’s an invasion fleet.” An amount […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Doubleheaders, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Fuckery, Jake Burger, Jorge Soler, Marlins, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Phil Bickford, Rainouts, Ramon De Jesus, Yuli Gurriel It’s a measure of how spoiled we’ve been: Jacob deGrom looks mortal (and for a second start in a row, no less) and we’re all scratching our heads as if God has repealed physics and things are falling up and sticking to ceilings. DeGrom was better than he was in his confoundingly disastrous Oakland start, and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Brooklyn Cyclones, Dansby Swanson, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jacob deGrom, Kenley Jansen, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Max Scherzer, Pennant Race, Starling Marte The Mets, of late, play two kinds of games: ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways and ones in which they beat the absolute tar out of their opponents without breaking too much of a sweat. We’re a third of the way through September, and I’m not sure I can […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Nardi, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Mark Canha, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Pennant Race Having emerged from the forced march portion of their schedule, the Mets returned to Citi Field and took care of business against the Rockies, though a game that looked poised to become a laugher never quite launched, turning into a too-close-to-the-ground 3-1 win. Still a good outcome, particularly given that the Braves didn’t win, though […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Blackmon, Jacob deGrom, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Ryan Feltner, Ryan McMahon The Mets beat the Marlins by one run. But the Phillies beat the Nationals by one run, and the Braves beat the Rockies by one run, so by the end of Thursday, nothing changed at the top of the NL East, though at least we got to maintain the sensation/illusion that the Mets reside somewhere […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Famous, Backdating, Brad Hand, Ears, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Javy Baez, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Villar, Pennant Race, Solidarity, Thumbs, Zack Scott When the Mets don’t play, the Mets don’t get eliminated. We may have found the 2020 formula for relative success. On Friday night, the Mets were rained out in Washington. As the evening went along, the palest of suns shone on their fortunes. Philadelphia lost. San Francisco lost, despite the best efforts of heretofore lovable scamp […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2020 Mets, Faux Pennant Race, Hope, Pennant Race, Penultimate Day, Saturdays, Slenderella, Slight Delusions of Contention, Stupid Marlins, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler The Mets took two out of three from the Royals. Their unlikely wild-card march has them two games behind the Cubs for possession of the second N.L. spot — but they’ve drawn even with fellow contenders Philadelphia and Milwaukee. That’s the upshot of a long weekend of baseball. Of course, that’s the straightforward solution to a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Hope, J.D. Davis, Pennant Race, Perspective, Pete Alonso, Royals The Mets have won seven of their past eight…is a sentence that doesn’t make a Mets fan feel any better when it is understood that the eighth game in that string was the loss. It is as easily understood that seven-game winning streaks don’t automatically grow to eight and nine and so on just because […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gilbert O’Sullivan, Kevin Newman, Pennant Race, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Steven Matz, Trevor Williams, Tyler Bashlor, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks Halted Bravo to all the stalwarts who came out to Citi Field on a night water droplets were falling from the sky, accompanied by hits sprinkling a perplexed Noah Syndergaard. Winter-hat night seemed perfectly well timed. Imagine the attendance if a certain third baseman who most definitely is not experiencing a rift with his employeers, no […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jerry Blevins, Noah Syndergaard, Pennant Race, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido It’s September 1, 2018. The Mets entered the month 59-75, 15 games removed from any stratum of playoff action. The kind of context that gives September its juice eludes us. We have an individual honor to root for where Jacob deGrom is concerned. We have an unfortunate […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Hanhold, Pennant Race, September, Steven Matz, Team History, The Mets Subconscious |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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