It’s early 2005 at something nobody’s ever heard of called Faith and Fear in Flushing. We’re blogging for the first time. We have Carlos Beltran coming to camp for the first time. We have the Washington Nationals coming to the National League East for the first time. Beltran was just an Astro. The Nationals were […]
 
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. |
 24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2019 Postseason, 2020 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Davey Martinez, Max Scherzer, Mets Managers, Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman, Stephen Strasburg, World Series Ending These Mets are so good, they deserve to be televised on television. These Mets have so much magic to do, Pippin has to be planning another Broadway revival. These Mets have dispirited the Nationals to such an extent that D.C doesn’t wanna come out and play on a Friday.
I thought the Nationals would score at least nine runs on Saturday, probably more. They started with a single run in each of the first four innings, 44.44% of the way to what is known as a picket fence. The Mets couldn’t put up 97%-invisible netting fast enough to veil it. Somehow, the Mets halted the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Faint Praise, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes For consistency’s sake, we shall continue to refer to the state of affairs in which we’ve been thoroughly immersed as a pennant race, even if ours is the only team any longer racing. Mathematical niceties demand we maintain on our faces an expression of severe purposefulness when the subjects of games ahead and games remaining arise. […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Black Cat, Bryce Harper, Clint Robinson, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Matt Williams, Michael Conforto, Pennant Race, Ron Swoboda, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes I like the part where perhaps the best righty in the league comes back and pitches like he never paused for an elbow operation and subsequent rehabilitation. Matt Harvey is ComebacKKKKKKKKK Player of the WeeKKKKKKKKK. With nine strikeouts after a twenty-month layoff, can month, year, decade and century be far behind? “Just one start” is one of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Appomattox, Harvey Day, Harvey's Better, Hope, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg, The Shawshank Redemption The Mets lost 2-1. Nobody cares. Nobody would have cared if they’d lost 130-1, or if they’d won 130-1. That’s because the Mets and all of us were staggered by today’s asteroid-hits-the-mammals news out of Citi Field. And here’s a bit of news: I know why Matt Harvey got hurt. Look at this picture I took […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dan Warthen, Fans, Frank Jobe, Injuries, Matt Harvey, PItching, Sandy Alderson, Stephen Strasburg, Terry Collins Harvey’s better. And we’re not so bad ourselves. The pitcher you may have caught on TV, and if you can’t be John Buck, that’s not a bad way to catch him. Certainly you have the benefit of helpful camera angles, possibly pause and rewind buttons and all the concentration you care to muster. You could see […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg … the Mets went 0-for-August at Shea Stadium. I remember it all too well. They were 0-13 for the month, with game after game a despairing, infuriating question of when, not if. They then lost the first two home games in September, making the home futility streak 15 straight. The final loss was a 3-2 defeat […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Despair, Jeremy Hefner, Stephen Strasburg It may feel like we’ll see more losses like Wednesday afternoon’s than Ruben Tejada will see pitches this year, but it won’t be nearly that bad, statistically speaking. We can’t lose more than 158 games and Ruben sees almost that many pitches in a given week. Yet sometimes you can’t argue with how something feels. Wrightlessness […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Johnson, Ike Davis, Injuries, Johan Santana, Relief Pitching, Roger Craig, Ruben Tejada, Stephen Strasburg, Walter Johnson Stephen Strasburg is baseball’s best pitcher. Not just now, but forever. I know it’s true because he pitched seven sensational innings Tuesday night and Bob Costas’s drool seeped through my television screen while it happened. As Strasburg struck out fourteen Pirates in seven innings, Costas all but dug up the late Walter Johnson just for […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lastings Milledge, Stephen Strasburg |
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