Wednesday’s matinee against the Phillies was simultaneously an excellent baseball game and one about which there doesn’t seem to be a lot to say at first glance: Zack Wheeler was good, but Jake Arrieta was a little better. Wheeler gave up solo homers to Scott Kingery and Cesar Hernandez, while Arrieta surrendered one to Michael Conforto, […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Hector Neris, Jake Arrieta, Keon Broxton, Maikel Franco, Ted Barrett, Umpires, Zack Wheeler I spent the last five days in Chicago, getting my Star Wars on at McCormick Place and in the hotel bar. So my Mets attention was fitful and scattershot. I saw news of the first night’s events in amazing seats behind the plate at Wrigley Field (plenty of good options available when it’s still frigid), […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Baseball Cards, Guillermo Mota, Jon Niese, Jonahs, Jose Vizcaino, Paul Sewald, Ramon Ramirez, Steven Matz I hope the Mets don’t have one of those mobile plans that limits their minutes, because they’re tearing through them at a prodigious rate. Time of game over the past week reads like the schedule board at Grand Central as it gears up for rush hour. 4:08; […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Bold Leadership, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Edwin Diaz, Jackie Robinson, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mickey Callaway, Phillies, Relief Pitching, Saves, Time of Game, Trading Places, Trains, Unwritten Rules “I’m not really throwing the ball where I want to,” Jacob deGrom explained to reporters Sunday night. He probably meant in relation to where Brave batters could hit it. I’d add I’d have preferred Jake not throwing the ball on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball, which no matter how it’s […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ESPN, Hank Aaron, Jacob deGrom, Paul Sewald, Radio, Sam Jethroe, Sunday Night Baseball, Tommie Agee, Unnatural Environs You know what they say: you’re gonna win a third of your games, you’re gonna lose a third of your games and apportioning 20% of your games to Jason Vargas to start is self-defeating. Why is Jason Vargas the Mets’ fifth starter? […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corey Oswalt, Dallas Keuchel, Dave Liddell, Fifth Starters, Jason Vargas, Luis Avilan, Ron Darling During Spring Training you might have noticed Brodie Van Wagenen was enlisting special advisors left and Wright: Captain Dave; Al Leiter; John Franco; Jessica Mendoza. You hadn’t seen so many advisors being deployed since the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Since special advice is so in Met vogue, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dominic Smith, Gulf of Tonkin, Jeff McNeil, Jessica Mendoza, John Franco, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Special Advisors, Zack Wheeler Steven Matz went deep. Amed Rosario went deeper. Pete Alonso went deepest of all. Edwin Diaz made certain we didn’t plumb the depths. And that is how the New York Mets took sole possession of first place twelve games into the 2019 season, which clinches the Mets absolutely nothing. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Amed Rosario, Braves, Edwin Diaz, First Place, Freddie Freeman, Homers Hit as Hard as Hell, Jonny Venters, National League East, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, SunTrust Park As long as the Mets win, they can more or less do as they please and we’ll perform the necessary mental gymnastics to declare it good. But that said, would it kill them to play a non-insane game one of these nights? After a day and a night of high-scoring moral victories that we had to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Vasquez, Jake Odorizzi, Noah Syndergaard, Trevor Hildenberger, Twins, Walks The 25-minute sogginess delay at the outset. The third starting catcher in three starts. The unfamiliar opponent from the uninvited league. The ballpark and broadcast advertisements for a namesake casino that misidentifies his number. The odds that it had to happen eventually. The species of which every […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ends of All Good Things, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Pete Alonso, Quality Starts, Streaks, Travis d'Arnaud, Twins Sunday was sunny and warm, one of those days where spring tells you that despite recent events, the world will soon be habitable on a more or less regular basis. Emily and I had worked through all manner of errands and items on our separate to-do lists, so we decided that … we could go to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Citi Field, Food, Lack of Food, Luis Avilan, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Tim Peterson, Walks, Zack Wheeler |
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