 
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. |
Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo Lucas Duda spent the spring trudging around left field until an intercostal strain and a dose of reality dictated that he stop. He then spent the summer in Las Vegas. When he returned, he went from left field to left out, with first base occupied by fellow reclamation project Ike Davis. Then Ike strained something (the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Brad Hand, Giancarlo Stanton, Lucas Duda, Rick Ankiel Sometimes you get what you wish for and then it doesn’t turn out so well for you, as it didn’t in this case. In the bottom of the fourteenth, I figured I was golden. David Wright was on first, but there were two out. Shaun Marcum was up. No way […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Aardsma, Extra Innings, Marlins, Matt Harvey, Rick Ankiel, Shaun Marcum, Team History, What a Terrible Team Well, that was inconclusive. I would love to exult in a thrilling Mets victory or, barring that, dissect a frustrating Mets loss. Instead, let’s just all stare out the window and wait for 6:10 PM, for we have ourselves a suspended game, something I don’t know the Mets have had at home since Ed Kranepool couldn’t […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Anthony Varvaro, B.J. Upton, Cliffdwellers, Dan Uggla, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, Evan Gattis, Fireworks Night, Freddie Freeman, Golden Sombrero, Greg Burke, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Upton, Kris Medlin, LaTroy Hawkins, Lenny Randle, Lucas Duda, Oral Surgery, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Suspended Games, Team History, Terry Collins, Ties, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Wes Westrum Don’t look now, but your woebegone New York Mets are winners of three of four. They’re hot! My recent advice stands: Find something else to do with your summer, with the possible exception of every fifth day, and let the Christmas carolers be a reminder to check on the team’s financial condition. That, more than anything […] The Mets are bad and will continue to be bad for the rest of the season. That I’ve basically made my peace with. They have the second-worst record in the National League. Since winning seven of their first eleven games, they’ve lost 17 of 24. Nobody’s scored fewer runs among N.L. teams dating back to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Cardinals, Dae-Sung Koo, Gabe Paul, Jeremy Hefner, Losing, Rick Ankiel, Roger Kahn, Sandy Alderson, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Ty Wigginton, Zack Wheeler It was during Willie Harris’s at-bat in the ninth inning Wednesday night that I was trying very hard, from way out in the right field corner, to will another ball out of Drew Storen so as to build the slightest of rallies and increase the slightest of chances that the crappiest of games might reverse […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Distasteful Pleasures, Drew Storen, Mathematically Eliminated, Rick Ankiel, September, Willie Harris Funny how little you know about a baseball team until you spend some time focused on them. The San Francisco Giants, for example, disappeared from my radar screen the moment the Mets were mistakenly awarded a victory against them in the middle of July. And the Atlanta Braves? We saw them as recently as the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2010 Postseason, Billy Wagner, Braves, Edgar Renteria, Giants, Kyle Farnsworth, Mercenaries, Pat Burrell, Relief Pitching, Rick Ankiel, Troy Glaus |
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