“You gotta believe,” you may have heard once or twice in your life over these past 49 years. And you really do, especially in April. If you’re giving up this soon, it’s a long May through September in front of you. Yet here in the early won-lost portion of the season, when records are instantly […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Mets, Expectations, Good Starts, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Sopranos One of the earliest lessons for a baseball fan is that you cannot, in fact, win them all. The Mets proved that to themselves and fans new and old Sunday afternoon, falling 4-2 to the Nationals. Squint a little and there was a lot to like, most importantly an encouraging performance by Carlos Carrasco, whose 2021 […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, Chasen Shreve, Nelson Cruz, Pete Alonso, Trevor Williams It’s an axiomatic to what we do here at Faith and Fear that the Mets are front and center in life for at least six months a year, with 1:10 pm and 7:05 pm the times around which calendars get constructed, not to mention all the oddball 10s and 05s on the clock necessitated by […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Gary Sanchez, Grand Slams, Joan Adon, Pete Alonso, SNY, Wayne Kirby Hi again, Chasen Shreve — and you, too, Matt Reynolds and Johneshwy Fargas. The Mets decided to solve their lefthanded bullpen void by rewinding to 2020 and snatching up the perfectly capable Shreve, who by coming back after a season in Pittsburgh gets the chance to break free of his Silent Generation designation. May the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brad Hand, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Good Health, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Matt Reynolds, NL East Four-Timers Club, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Safety, Schedules, Spring Training, Travis Jankowski Saturday night’s penultimate Mets game of 2021 had a little moment near the end that will swiftly be forgotten, given the meaninglessness of the contest. Which is only natural. But if things had been different — if, say, the Mets had avoided their August swan dive and been playing for a postseason berth — that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Jacob Webb, Jonathan Villar, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso The Atlanta Braves are going to the playoffs, which meant on Friday night the Mets faced a lineup that featured a handful of Atlanta’s young frontline players but not its older ones — a sop to hangover recovery times, perhaps. That made the game meaningless multiple times over, with no chance for the Mets to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Garbage Time, Pete Alonso, Tylor Megill Once again, it’s sand in the hourglass time — the last few grains, the regret about what could have been, the wanting it to just be over, and the reminding yourself that as soon as it is you’ll want a little more. The Mets have become the old joke about the food being terrible and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Hand, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gary DiSarcina, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Red Sox Hope springs eternal if you’re a Mets fan, but even springs can lose their sproing. Come Tuesday evening, I have to admit I wasn’t particularly feeling it — if you’d shown me a flash card that said METS, I most likely would have responded by having a tantrum about Edwin Diaz and demanding to know […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A Fucking Piece of Toast or Something, Carlos Carrasco, Hopelessness, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Soilmaster Stadium, Stupid Marlins Maybe I need to see the therapist of my blog partner’s imaginings, because I figure any sane counselor would tell me and the Mets that we’re better off apart. Right now, we’re making each other insane, night after night. On Friday night the Mets jumped out to an early 2-0 lead over what used to be […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Nationals, Pete Alonso My old pal Dan almost apologized upon offering me use of his tickets for Thursday night. If I couldn’t make it, he said not to worry. “There are still other games to endure.” This is how Mets fans talk to one another in Augusts like these. There’ve been a few. There was one 41 Augusts ago, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, August, Carlos Carrasco, Endurance, Javy Baez, Mark Bomback, One-Run Defeats, Pete Alonso, Schvitzing, Video Review |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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