“Grind you till you break” is Chris Bassitt‘s phrase, first uttered after his debut in blue and orange and the Mets having come back from being knocked down by sundry Nationals to win by doing terrible things to pitchers, spoken of earlier on this trip, and of course immortalized as part of that equal parts […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blake Snell, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Bassitt, Cycles, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, J.D. Davis, Luke Voit, Mark Canha, Padres Why shouldn’t Adonis Medina have been depended upon in the clutchest of spots to deliver for the 2022 Mets? For the same reason the likes of Patrick Mazeika, Nick Plummer and Colin Holderman, to name three previously little-known quantities, shouldn’t have — no reason whatsoever. You may have noticed no Bench Mob sobriquets or t-shirts have […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, J.D. Davis, Mookie Betts, Tension, Tomas Nido, Trea Turner, Trevor Williams The first two games of the much-anticipated Mets-Dodgers series showed the Mets in an unfamiliar light: They looked like a good team up against a better one, with that better team riding dominant pitching and waiting for its opponent to make a mistake, then taking full advantage. And in the early going, Saturday night’s game looked […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brusdar Graterol, Buck Showalter, Colin Holderman, David Peterson, Dodgers, Gil Hodges, Horrendous Uniforms, Luis Guillorme, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Walker Buehler Chris Bassitt nailed the ethic of the 2022 New York Mets so well so early that his comments following the third game of the season became the club’s credo, not to mention the soundtrack for commercials shown roughly every half-inning on SNY: “I don’t care who you are, I’m comin’ after you […] we’re just […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Grind, Late Night West Coast Games, Pete Alonso The Mets are really good, but playing against competition several ticks above the last week’s slate of opponents will remind you that other teams are good too. Like the Dodgers — who now have 34 wins to the Mets’ 35 but are also 17 games over .500, standing with them, the Yankees and the Astros […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Taijuan Walker, Tony Gonsolin The Mets soared over Citi Field this past week, swooping home between excursions west and scooping up a six-game winning streak, demolishing Philadelphia, destroying Washington and , from a distance, demoralizing Atlanta. On Wednesday afternoon, they completed their perfect Flushing stand by shutting out the Nationals, 5-0. Colombian Carlos Carrasco pitched in front of his […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 2006 Mets, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Luis Guillorme, Season of Healing, Tomas Nido, Win Certainty I was in L.A. Thursday morning through Monday night attending Star Wars Celebration (and probably getting COVID, but we’ll see), and felt the usual guilt about abandoning my post. Though I didn’t, really — the Mets kept sneaking into the picture, as they have a way of doing. There they were for the last couple of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, First Place, Hope, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams |
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