 
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. |
Being a fan is inherently ridiculous. Two weeks ago we were collectively rending our garments because the Mets were painful to watch and we were killing time waiting to a) see what they got for every upright body at the trade deadline; and b) complain about seeing Pete Alonso in the togs of the Mariners/Cubs/Giants/What-Have-Yous. Then came […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrew Heaney, Drew Smith, Edwin Jimenez, Leody Taveras, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Sean Manaea, Sean Reid-Foley, Starling Marte For a team that has posted six walkoff wins to date, it’s not a bottom of the ninth or eleventh that ranks as the Mets’ most satisfying half-inning of the year (and it’s certainly not a tenth; the Mets are 0-6 in ten-inning games). We have to hand this highly specific honor to the bottom […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, 2015 Mets, Answer Back Runs, Beginning to be Convincing, Drew Smith, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Jake Diekman, Luis Torrens, Padres, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte Mets Classics showrunner, slow your roll. Thursday night’s game against the Marlins ended on a blissful note, but said blissful note was first heard and completed in the very last minute of the game. The previous 144 minutes? They were nonstop squealing and blatting, a baseball cacophony alternately dull and unpleasant to the ears. The Mets didn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Luis Severino, Marlins, Roddery Munoz, Starling Marte, Tanner Scott, Walkoffs It’s gonna get away, you tell yourself when an early 2-0 lead becomes a 2-2 tie. When the lead is rebuilt to 5-2, you figure maybe — maybe — the scenario developing won’t be worst-case. Then instead of remaining 5-2, the lead shrinks to 5-4, and you can sense where this is going. Yet when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Lineups, Relaxation, Starling Marte, Todd Zeile, Tyrone Taylor, Zeile of Approval Back in the offseason, my mental calendar had a circle drawn around June 8-9: Mets in London! A trip could be fun, particularly if Emily and I convinced our Phillies-fan friends to join us. That plan got kicked around with vague seriousness for a while, was downgraded to maybe and then died a quiet death before […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, London Series, Pat McCarthy, Phillies, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte A relatively stress-free win in which the Mets executed most facets of the sport at a higher level than their opponent for nine innings…was that too much to ask for? It was not. The Mets defeated an amorphous blob of unrefined talent better known as the Washington National Tuesday night, 6-3. They didn’t have to accidentally stumble […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Competence, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, DJ Herz, Harrison Bader, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams The alchemy of desperation works in mysterious ways. The Mets… say their murky goodbye to Jorge Lopez; have an accountability meeting; decide they can do better for part-time catching and hitting with Luis Torrens than they any longer will with Omar Narváez; opt to provide regular reps for Christian Scott at Syracuse rather than let the rookie’s momentum stall […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alchemy, An Appreciation, Darryl Strawberry, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Retired Numbers, Starling Marte John Olerud was at Citi Field for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May, just as he was at Shea Stadium for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May a quarter-century before…though “just as” might be a stretch. In 2024, Olerud was a visitor, sitting in the stands, brought to the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Adrian Houser, Brett Baty, Curt Schilling, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Harrison Bader, James Schapiro, John Olerud, Joy, Logan Webb, Omar Narvaez, Pinch-Running, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Walkoffs When the Mets are behind, Keith Raad likes to convey the score to those of us listening on the radio or some radio-adjacent audio product by informing us that they’re chasing whatever the deficit is. It’s a perfectly fine way to go about one’s business, and Raad has been a good addition to the narrator ranks. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, David Fry, Emmanuel Clase, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jeff McNeil, Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor, Keith Raad, Mark Vientos, Nick Sandlin, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Xzavion Curry I’d like to put 6:10 pm start times on the list of things that I thought would be good, or at least novel, and turned out to be terrible. First off, I completely forgot. I was doing something non-baseball-related, noted it was around 6:35 pm, and reflexively went back to what I was doing, because 6:35 […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Lively, Brett Baty, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Josh Walker, Manny Gonzalez, Nick Sandlin, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill |
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