You don’t remember Jose Bautista was a Met? Yeah, he was another one of those veterans the Mets picked up when nobody else wanted him, another one of those faded stars of whom it was assumed he had nothing left. This was in 2018 when the Mets seemed to be doing a lot of that. Maybe that’s […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2018 Mets, Blue Jays, Gil Hodges, Grand Slams, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Jose Bautista, Memories, Rays, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores When the Mets struck for two tying runs in the eighth inning and then the winning run in the ninth Saturday night, I thought of the ghoulish if sort of logical question that gets asked after aviation disasters and applied it to our at least temporarily aloft carrier of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Boxes, Bullpen, Catchers, Devin Mesoraco, Steven Matz, Travin d'Arwecki, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores The Mets flirted with history several times on Sunday. Losing two in a row for the first time in 2018 would have been historic. No need to make that kind of history. Noah Syndergaard approached Tom Seaver’s major league record for consecutive strikeouts. Tom, as every schoolchild […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Jones, Jackie Robinson, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Three or More Walkoff Home Runs, Walkoffs, Weekend Walkoff Homers, Wilmer Flores, WOT There’s something about these New York Mets, these New York Mets of 2015, 2016 and 2017 that doesn’t let you turn your back completely on them. If we were realtors, we’d marvel at their good bones. We’re Mets fans, so we figure that’s just asking for trouble and a visit from Ray Ramirez with that […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Comebacks, Hansel Robles, Instant Replay, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Josh Smoker, Lucas Duda, Mets Third Basemen, Third Base, Travis d'Arnaud, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores OK, that was fun. If Seth Lugo and Robert Gsellman represented Plan F and G, or some letter fairly far along in the stack, what letter was reserved for Rafael Montero? Montero hadn’t started a game since last April and had done nothing since then to make any member of the Mets brass think well of him. He spent […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Home Runs, Jose Fernandez, Jose Reyes, Kelly Johnson, Nick Wittgren, Rafael Montero, Walkoffs, Yoenis Cespedes Here’s a fun fact: May 21 isn’t May 20. Came as news to me on May 20 when I looked at two tickets for what I thought were that night’s Mets-Brewers game and realized they said May 21, a.k.a. the next day. So I’m not going tonight, it dawned on me. I’m supposed to go […] There have been more exhausting 48-hour stretches in the life of a Mets fan — the desperate scramble at the end of the ’99 season comes to mind — but not for a very long time. And perhaps there’s never been such an insane rollercoaster of emotions over so few hours, with euphoria, anger, confusion, despair, and […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Fans, Felipe Rivero, Hope, Jerry Meals, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Tyler Clippard, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes Steve Gelbs seems like a capable enough young broadcaster. We know him mostly from filling in for the singular Kevin Burkhardt on SNY, which, in the realm of roving reporting, is a little like starting Todd Pratt on Mike Piazza Poster Day. Pratt may perform ably — more than ably at his best — but […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hyperbole, Josh Edgin, Kevin Burkhardt, No-Hit Bids, Odrisamer Despaigne, Padres, Seth Smith, SNY, Steve Gelbs, Vic Black, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler Welcome to the 14th installment of our umpteen-part series, Better Know A Walkoff. Today: the 14th walkoff loss the Mets have suffered at the hands of the Florida/Miami Marlins since the founding of Faith and Fear in Flushing in 2005. The fightin’ 14th! Gosh, what can be said about this walkoff loss to the Marlins that wasn’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | History Repeats Itself, Marlins, Tom Koehler, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler Monday’s was the kind of Mets game Don Draper would have snuck out of sober so he could get back to the office and knock out those 25 Burger Chef tags for Peggy. It didn’t start out that way, which of course is the most generous clue that it was going to end that way. Maybe […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gonzalez Germen, Jon Niese, Loriatorium, Mad Men, Marlins, Marlins Park, Walkoffs |
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