The first wave of excitement crested Wednesday night with the completion of the Subway Series sweep, both this week’s and this year’s. Of course it was exciting. It was Mets 12 Yankees 3, with five home runs for the visitors who made themselves at home inside the surprisingly friendly confines of Yankee Stadium. Two for […]
 
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. |
They’re probably not this good, are they? How could they be? Fifteen wins in nineteen games seems to give us all the answer we need, a stretch that’s unfurled since their last pairing of consecutive losses, not to mention the active streak of three victories during which the most recent ascension or explosion feels it […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Judge, Adrian Houser, Ben Gamel, Emotional Cost Certainty, Francisco Alvarez, Harrison Bader, Michael Mays, Sean Manaea, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep, Ty Adcock, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Mays Max Scherzer pitched seven innings of shutout ball on his 38th birthday. Of course he did. He was born to put up zeroes on the night of July 27 in the borough of Queens before a sold-out house in attendance to cheer on a first-place team. It was foretold when he first drew breath and […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, 2022 Mets, Destiny, Dwight Gooden, Happy Parallels, Keith Hernandez, Max Scherzer, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep, Wally Backman A one-night pass was issued in advance. When the Mets sweep the Yankees, you cannot in all good faith complain about the next loss, even if it is to the frigging Marlins at their frigging boondoggle aquarium in front of a few dozen exotic fish and maybe a few dozen more curious onlookers. Shaun Marcum […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Jacob Turner, Marlins, Media, Relevance, Shaun Marcum, Subway Series Sweep, Team History After more than a year-and-a-half in dental denial that those random pains in my mouth were nothing that couldn’t be artfully ignored, I submitted to inevitable oral surgery this past Tuesday. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for a lark, I put myself in the hands of capable, caring professionals who made it nothing like the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, PItching, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep |
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