Some days this year as a Mets fan, if you’re lucky (which you are if you’re a Mets fan this year), you feel a little like Tommy Flanagan — pronounced fluh-NAIG-un — Jon Lovitz’s truth-stretching character whose Saturday Night Live catchphrase “that’s the ticket” had the country in stitches for about a year in the […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Almost Too Good to Be True, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, Jon Lovitz, Liz Callaway, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tyler Naquin So far — which, I’ll admit right off the bat, is a necessary qualifier — this is one of the stranger successful Met seasons I can remember. After sweeping a split doubleheader from the Braves — no burying the lead in this recap — the Mets are 30 games over .500 for the first time since […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jake Odorizzi, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Tomas Nido, Trevor May, Yoan Lopez For me, the Mets are rarely if ever on the periphery. Most nights they’re front and center. But now and then even they have to share space with other pursuits. We’re finishing up three weeks in my folks’ summer cottage in Maine, an annual visit extended this year as an experiment in remote work and escaping […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Keith Hernandez, Orlando Arcia, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tyler Naquin The Mets win most of the games they play, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they just won two of three in Washington and five of six on their road trip and eight of nine overall. That’s what teams that win most of the games they play do by definition. It’s a pretty good […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2022 Mets, Best Mets Team Since 1986, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso Look, I’d be happier never playing the Yankees. First off, I don’t like interleague play and wish they’d do away with it. But there’s having to play, say, the Angels and there’s having to play the Yankees. And with the latter, there’s just too much stress. One’s living room feels like a psychiatrist’s office; being at […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Anthony Rizzo, Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Joe Torre, Joey Gallo, Jordan Montgomery, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Subway Series, Taijuan Walker, Tomas Nido, Yankees It’s Sunday night. The Mets haven’t won in more than a week. As if that’s not enough of a shame, our greatest miracle has been celebrated anew, and this is how our team responds in the present? What we could really use is a nice offensive explosion while everything is looking listless and limp, maybe […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, 2022 Mets, Almost Famous, Cleon Jones, Dana Brand, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Irene Hodges, Joely Rodriguez, Losing Streaks Snapped, Pete Alonso, Time None of that should have worked. Presented to you is a short sentence in which “that” is carrying a heavy load, referring to two games played over more than nine hours, the first of them featuring an emphatically run-suppressing wind, and the Mets spending both games not so much stumbling as failing to deliver a knockout […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheader Sweeps, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frank Schwindel, J.D. Davis, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Yan Gomes, Yoan Lopez I’ve heard it said that the second best thing one can do with an evening is watch your favorite baseball team lose a game. And that’s probably true. But there’s watching your team lose a baseball game and there’s watching your team get its collective behind whooped, and Tuesday night was the latter. Trevor Williams was […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Chasen Shreve, Jose Siri, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams Welcome to another recap in transit! Wednesday night’s game found me on my way to an airplane and ended while I was on said conveyance; Friday night’s began with me wearily navigating a Penske rental truck through New Jersey with Joshua as my co-pilot and supplier of Mets news. (More than you want to know: My […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, Gosuke Katoh, Hate, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins, Pedro Lopez, Pete Alonso, Tommy Nance Everybody misplaces their Mojo from time to time. In the summer of 1999, Austin Powers had to chase his Mojo all the way back to 1969. A couple of months later, the 1999 Mets’ Mojo experienced dizzying spikes and frightening declines despite Jim Morrison’s advice that it should keep on risin’. For a night-and-a-half in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Austin Powers, Bloated Pitching Staffs, Brewers, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Hunter Renfroe, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Mojo, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Robin Ventura, Seth Lugo, Short Benches, Starling Marte, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill |
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