Just a reminder to the Mets: Increasingly, we fans say we don’t particularly care about the Subway Series, that the novelty wore off long ago, that six games a year is too many, that Interleague’s an unnecessary disruption to baseball’s beautifully synchronized rhythms and that the whole thing is played out. These statements may accurately […]
 
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. |
Perhaps the cosmic forces could handle only so much suck for one Sunday. It was gloomy outside. It was gloomier on TV. The Mets were one out from being swept out of Citi Field by the last people you’d ever want to let near a broom. Jose Reyes was, for all we knew, playing phantom […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Jason Bay, North America, O Canada, Ronny Paulino, Subway Series Things I Don’t Like to Think About 1. The Mets having to play the Yankees the third game of a Subway Series of which the Mets have already lost the first two-thirds at home. 2. The wait on MRI results for key Mets players who left their most recent game experiencing “tightness” in an essential segment of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jose Reyes, La-La-La-I-Can't-Hear-You, Subway Series Ladies and gentlemen, your 2011 New York Mets, just a bump here and a dip there from being the most average team in existence. They’re 22-22. They’ve scored 180 runs and given up 180 runs, making their Expected Win-Loss record 22-22. They’re 10-12 at home, 12-10 on the road. They’re 9-8 during the day, 13-14 at […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Justin Turner, Mark Teixeira, New Yankee Stadium, R.A. Dickey, Subway Series, Yankees Ah, the rites of the Friday afternoon before the first Friday night of the first Subway Series game of the year… Is that tonight? I’d forgotten all about it. Seems they used to make a bigger deal out of it. Whatever, I don’t care. It’s just another game. It’s gotten old. This doesn’t matter more than any other series. It isn’t what it […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Family Tradition, Mets Fan Philosophy, Posadenfreude, Subway Series Not so long ago, the Mets losing two in a row was something that happened at least twice a week, and three times if the week were particularly unlucky. Now, it’s vaguely shocking. Waitaminute, we lost? But we’re great! We didn’t come back? Our starting pitching wasn’t dominant? Everything didn’t turn out OK? In truth, Johan Santana […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Omar Minaya, Subway Series, Yankees The Mets couldn’t win on the road. Then they couldn’t win on the road unless they were playing the dregs of the junior circuit. Then … then shut up already. Up in the Bronx (technically a road game) the Mets played with confidence and swagger and every other intangible you might want to believe in. And if […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Francisco Cervelli, Hisanori Takahashi, Jose Reyes, Pedro Feliciano, Subway Series, Yankees MATCHUP: Us at Them, 7:05 PM Friday; 1:05 PM Saturday; 1:05 PM Sunday. KEYS TO THE SERIES: Fuck Them. Let’s Go Mets. Not necessarily in that order. One of the problems with being a baseball fan who’s reached a certain level of insanity is most every game is seen as part of your team’s ongoing drama, with the other guys walk-on antagonists who exist only to thwart us. When our team wins, if we can we attribute it to pluck or fortitude […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Fans, Francisco Rodriguez, Hatred, Jose Lima, Ryota Igarashi, Subway Series, Yankees The Mets took a lead, held a lead and only made you think it possible, not probable, that they would blow the lead. Progress! A good win for the Mets over the Yankees at Citi Field Saturday night. A good win beats any kind of loss, though I have to say in the fourteenth season of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Al Leiter, Armando Benitez, Beauty, Benny Agbayani, Bobby Valentine, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frankie Rodriguez, Jason Bay, Jenrry Mejia, John Franco, Joy, Mike Piazza, Pain, Rationalization, Rick Reed, Subway Series, Team History, Timo Perez, Turk Wendell, WFAN |
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