When we’ve played this late into a year, we’ve been at our most Amazin’. Ours is the franchise over which Roger Angell once concluded, “The Mets go melodramatic in October, it’s in their genes…” He wrote that in 2001, specifically about a series of games from 1988, but also knowing the events of 2000 and […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2014 Postseason, Metropolitan Exceptionalism, Team History Singin’ to the world Those 2014 New York Mets kept up their end of the minuscule bargain I struck with them in the middle of July. They had just come off a vigorous homestand in which they won seven of their previous eight games, and caught […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, Barry Manilow, Bobby Abreu, Citi Field, Closing Day, Lucas Duda, Team History, Tradition As a service to New York Mets fans who find themselves encountering an unfamiliar concept, Faith and Fear in Flushing provides the following helpful primer. Welcome to the battle for second place! Yeah, I thought I heard something about that. Can you explain what this is exactly? With Monday night’s loss by the reeling Braves to the Pirates, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jim McAndrew, Sandy Alderson, Second Place, Team History, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver Following a Monday night when it hit me just how few innings remain to this season, I sort of retroactively wish the Mets could have deprived us of two or three from their twelfth-to-last game of 2014. It was an extraordinary night at Citi Field through six. It was a night that was surely meant […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Pete Falcone, Strikeouts, Team History Anybody who knows his or her Brady Bunch will remember when Greg, Marcia, Peter, Jan, Bobby and Cindy formed a singing group in order to go on the Pete Sterne Amateur Hour and win the money to buy their parents a sparkly anniversary present. They named their act after the gift they had their eye on: […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anderson Hernandez, Bob Apodaca, Bob L. Miller, Dilson Herrera, Grady Sizemore, Jack Aker, Jacob deGrom, Lee Mazzilli, Miguel Cairo, Phillies, Recidivist Mets, Stability, Stealing Home, Team History, The Brady Bunch How is it that a lineup loaded with ballplayers who jammed the box score of a World Series clincher can appear so routinely beatable? The dichotomy in perception probably has something to do with a temporal gap, what with that particular World Series having taken place in 2008 and the beating in question proceeding in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dale Thayer, Darren Bragg, Dillon Gee, Gary Bennett, Jimmy Rollins, Lucas Duda, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Stability, Taylor Teagarden, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption On this very afternoon in 1969, Jerry Koosman pitched a solid nine innings, Donn Clendenon, Ken Boswell and Cleon Jones made key contact and Ed Kranepool homered and later delivered the walkoff hit, a fortuitous bloop to left that made Kooz and the Mets 4-3 winners over the Cubs. In other words, today is the 45th […] Summer and Jacob deGrom’s first big league win each arrived in good stead on Saturday. Summer, as the artificial-lemonade commercials used to tell us, is only here a short while. DeGrom, one hopes, will stick around so long that the length of his career will rival the length of his locks. Paradoxically, time of game […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1974 Mets, 1984 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2004 Mets, Craig Swan, Doug Sisk, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jim Bunning, John Franco, Mike Remlinger, Mike Stanton, Milestones, Rick Wise, Summer, Team History, Tom Seaver It’s not surprising that they lost. Losing is what they do. They’ve lost more often than they’ve won as a matter of course for five going on six seasons. On May 31, 2009, buoyed by a week of having played teams who seemed indisputably lousier than them (Washington and Florida), the New York Mets stood seven […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arietta, Losing, Nate Schierholtz, Team History, Zack Wheeler “It doesn’t work that way,” I had to explain to my sister over dinner out when she inferred I must really be enjoying how long these baseball games my baseball team has been playing, including the one I was listening to while she was talking. “You probably wish they’d last eight hours!” she said, as innocent […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A.J. Burnett, Anniversaries, Bobby Abreu, Buddy Carlyle, Ed Sudol, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Manship, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Pace, Team History |
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