The clot in his bladder. The load of innings in 2015. The lack of innings in Spring Training. The to-be-expected second year after Tommy John trajectory. The residual mental strain from trying to be The Man in the deciding game of the World Series and famously not succeeding. A general psychological breakdown. Something physically wrong […]
 
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. |
From the Better Late Than Never Department: The best thing about Wednesday night’s tilt with the Nationals, from my admittedly parochial perspective? It was getting to talk baseball with my blog partner, something we hadn’t done since the Daniel Murphy Game last October and hadn’t really done then, since at the time we were too busy […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Juan Lagares, Memories, Yoenis Cespedes I particularly liked the part where Bryce Harper struck out. That I have to be more specific than that I also particularly like. I’m referring to the top of the fourth, one out, nobody on, the Mets ahead of the Nationals, 2-0. Noah Syndergaard is one-two on the consensus best player in the National League and…frozen. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard “What a miserable series.” 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Coors Field, Crooked Umps, Jacob deGrom, Jim Henderson, Juan Lagares, Things That Never Happened Now you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on! That’s Mortimer Duke at the end of 1983’s Trading Places, after he realizes Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine have ruined him and his brother Randolph in revenge for a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | The Other Carlos Torres, Tony Wolters, Umpires, West Coast Trips There are moments when you sense things can’t get any better for your team. Those are moments that are both gratifying and terrifying. Peak Mets, to dabble in the fashionable vernacular, may have been achieved early this past week. Bartolo Colon had homered on Saturday, his accomplishment stayed the toast of the town well into Monday. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Charlie Blackmon, Coors Field, Jerry Blevins, Jon Gray, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Network, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition Clayton Kershaw shutting down the Mets on almost no hits…where have we seen that before? Almost everywhere we’ve run into him, it seems, save for one buoyant October night, which attests to fine Met timing, and even then we barely touched his fresh-made turkey on nine-grain wheat with jalapeños, mustard and a little bit of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Again, Clayton Kershaw, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Sandy Koufax, Storytelling, Vin Scully Honestly, even without considering the lateness of the hour, a big picture of Noah Syndergaard would be more eloquent than whatever I’ll be able to come up with. Because sometimes Syndergaard defies description. Wednesday night’s pitching line might not look like ace-level Syndergaard — the swing-and-a-miss stuff wasn’t quite there — but that’s deceptive. Syndergaard was hitting 100 […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Kenta Maeda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting “I’ll probably only make it for one more batter,” the sleepy fan said to himself as Hansel Robles battled Trayce Thompson with two out in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets and Dodgers tied at two. “I don’t think I’ll make it to extra innings.” Funny how sometimes things just take care of themselves. The […] I guess it’s just something about San Diego. Tonight’s Mets game wasn’t that much less stressful than Sunday’s — in fact, it followed the same approximate blueprint — but whereas yesterday I was finger-crossing and pleading while urging Antonio Bastardo on from a continent away, tonight I was sprawled on my couch, occasionally losing track of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Chase Utley, Dodgers, Jim Henderson, Steven Matz, West Coast Trips |
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