 
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. |
I mean, sometimes it’s joy. A lot of times it’s joy, in fact. But sometimes it isn’t. Take, for instance, Wednesday afternoon in Milwaukee, which certainly did not count as joy. I guess you could make a case that it was better than losing 10-zip on Monday, and superior to losing 9-0 on Tuesday. On Wednesday the Mets […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Brewers, David Peterson, Garrett Mitchell, Pain, Sweeps Having recently conferred “visiting scholar” status upon one Maxwell Martin Scherzer, a righthander who earned his doctorate in pitching long ago, I’ll leave it to the old professor himself to figure out what the hell is wrong with him. If it’s not physical (he says he’s fine), not mental (he won’t use the pitch clock […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brian Anderson, Cheeseheads, Denyi Reyes, Garrett Mitchell, Indoor Fireworks, Max Scherzer, Punctuation, Rowdy Tellez, Tommy Hunter, Wade Miley Carlos Carrasco appeared forlorn, first on the mound, more so in the clubhouse when reporters asked him about his declining velocity, his difficulties adjusting to the timer and everything else that had gone wrong. Tommy Hunter had no choice but to wear a hit-eating grin when the camera found him at his lowest. The pitching […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 10-0 Losses, 1984 Mets, 2003 Mets, Basketball, Brad Wilkerson, Brewers, Brice Durang, Carlos Carrasco, David Cone, Expos, Gary Carter, Grand Slams, Home Openers, Luis Guillorme, Passover, Position Players Pitching, Ron Darling, San Juan Expos, Steve Trachsel, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tommy Hunter Forty-two pitches into his Mets debut, Kodai Senga was in trouble. Our Japanese import, a feel-good story across that far bigger pond for rising from developmental player (the closest equivalent is “low-A cannon fodder”) to three-time All-Star with five rings, had needed 36 pitches just to get through the first against the Marlins: A single, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Avisail Garcia, Debuts, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Kodai Senga, Marlins, Pitch Clock, Rob Manfred, Tommy Pham Is it too soon to say we’re living in a golden age of Mets baseball? How about one that is thus far untarnished? By winning in Miami on Saturday behind Tylor Megill (starting in place of Justin Verlander), Mark Canha (homering like he’s Pete Alonso) and a bullpen cast of thousands (none of them presented by […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1986 Mets, Not Losing Streak, Over .500, Team History, Willie Randolph, Winning Ways Just a reminder that while we wait for Edwin Diaz to rehabilitate from his WBC celebration injury, next weekend brings the first of fourteen Klassik Kloser Saturdays, Presented by Kwikset, the Official Provider of Deadbolts, Knobs and Handlesets of the New York Mets. That’s a mouthful, but closing out games in 2023 will likely require […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Klassik Kloser Saturdays, Kwikset, Relief Pitching, Rules Changes, Steve Cohen, Utter Foolishness, Veteran Presence |
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