 
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. |
Baseball is always about momentum. On Thursday night the Mets emerged from a terrifying game with the Phillies as the owners of a hard-fought win. It’s the kind of game that pulls teams together, that gives them a certain sense of purpose when they head for the next battleground, newly confident that they can, in fact, […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Christian Scott, Kirby Snead, Mariners, Marlins, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, Nick Fortes, Soilmaster Stadium A funny thing happened midway through the Mets’ laugher of a victory over the Marlins. The Mets were leading 7-1 at the halfway point of the game, having undressed poor Pablo Lopez in Soilmaster Stadium, and every hitter was on point, from Francisco Lindor continuing to beat all available Marlins like a drum to Patrick Mazeika […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Don Mattingly, Francisco Lindor, Joey Wendle, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker 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 As baseball fans, we react. Unable to actually alter the course of events transpiring down there on the field, we overreact. And trying to outguess baseball is a surefire way to look like a fool. Still. It’s what we do. We react, we overreact, we turn dots into lines and fill in pictures. Like this one: […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Javier Baez, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Panic, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker We’ll start with the asterisk: * means “for now.” That’s not said with foreboding, just a veteran fan’s acceptance of baseball reality. There are no teams with .889 winning percentages, not even dynasties. There are only teams on .889 streaks. While you’re in one, enjoy the ride. It’ll end, but that’s no reason not to throw […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hatred, Marlins, Marlins Park, Noah Syndergaard, Soilmaster Stadium, Stupid Marlins, Winning Streaks Oh, your 2012 Mets. They bite and claw and fight and come back, so you can never ever give up on them. It’s an endearing quality in a team, particularly one pegged as a second-division outfit. Oh, your 2012 Mets. The second you get giddy, they crash and burn, leaving you in the fetal position. It’s […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Zambrano, Frank Francisco, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Justin Turner, Soilmaster Stadium By about the fifth inning or so it was clear that the only way to capture this Bataan Death March of a game was chronologically, as fear ebbed and flowed and was overtaken by exhaustion. If you have trouble fixing just when something happened or recalling what sparked some outburst from me, rest assured that […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Valentine, Extra Innings, Gary Cohen, Greg Dobbs, Hatred, Jack McKeon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Nick Evans, Ronny Paulino, Soilmaster Stadium Periodically you’ll read one of us insisting that subpar baseball is still preferable to sitting glumly around in the winter. I was thinking of that as the Marlins, having dispatched Chris Capuano, tattooed the even more hapless D.J. Carrasco, threatening to put 20 hits on the scoreboard of the hideous Soilmaster Stadium (or, if you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, Danny Herrera, Marlins, Soilmaster Stadium Let’s revisit two days ago’s rather optimistic Mets recap post, shall we? (You don’t want to? Tough. I don’t particularly want to either, but I’m driving this train.) Bobby Parnell may be learning to be successful without his best slider, but nothing a pitcher can learn will get him through days when all he has is his […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Soilmaster Stadium How many duck-and-cover games have the Mets played in Soilmaster Stadium, anyway? And how many of those ended with some fleet, scrappity Marlin hitting a ball just past the first baseman’s glove, or just through the drawn-in infield, or just hugging the third-base line, or just catastrophic enough in some unanticipated way to spell doom […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Hope, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey, Soilmaster Stadium |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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