Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […]
 
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. |
Saturday night’s game between the Mets and Reds was one of those close affairs you’re not sure whether to call taut or merely indifferent. The Mets harried Andrew Abbott but couldn’t inflict substantial damage on him; the Reds tormented Tylor Megill but couldn’t put him away either. For the second game in a row, matters […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrew Abbott, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Francisco Alvarez, Reds, Ronny Mauricio, TJ Friedl, Tylor Megill A habit I’m trying to break as a baseball fan is the assigning of blame. If the Mets don’t win – even a stripped-down, playing-out-the-string version of the Mets – it can’t be that the other team won or something went wrong or an unlucky event occurred. No, it has to be someone’s fault. For instance: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Grant Hartwig, Hunter Greene, Jonathan India, Pete Alonso, Reds, Relief Pitching Tell me if any of this sounds familiar to your experience regarding your favorite baseball team of late: • Sometime in early Spring: YAY, BASEBALL! • A little later this Spring throughout this summer: Does it have to be this baseball? • Now, as summer blurs into fall: Sigh…there goes baseball, just when the baseball is getting kinda […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Stewart, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Arauz, Kodai Senga, Mets Fandom Like It Oughta Be, September, Skid Rowe Who are these Mets, anyway? Joey Lucchesi was terrific, Mark Vientos homered, Pete Alonso drove in three on a homerless night and — in the most astonishing development of all — Trevor Gott and Drew Smith were allowed to pitch and didn’t fall apart like cheap watches. There was a nifty flying slide home by Jeff […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Diamondbacks, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marty Noble, Pete Alonso, Trevor Gott Like other varieties of stopped clocks, every so often the Mets are just right. On Tuesday night they hit a barrage of homers, with Ronny Mauricio’s inaugural blast the most impressive; they got good starting pitching; and they survived the inevitable bad bullpenning to take a game away from the Diamondbacks. Jose Butto provided the good starting […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, David Stearns, Grand Hartwig, Jose Butto, Ron Hodges, Ronny Mauricio, Sam Coonrod, SNY, Steve Gelbs What had been a bad week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York is now a promising week regarding saviors of professional sports franchises in New York. At the very least, nobody should be sacking and tearing David Stearns’s Achilles tendon in the days ahead. Never mind Aaron Rodgers and never mind the 2023 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, David Stearns, Next Era, POBO, Potential Saviors I watched the victorious Jets quarterback stand before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, Diamondbacks, Drew Smith, Football, Highs, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Lows, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott During Saturday afternoon’s telecast, Ron Darling recalled a moment of frustration from early in his career when he was so fed up with receiving no-decisions for his pitching efforts that he said he’d rather take a loss than another ND. Older and wiser (and by way of slapping the Mariners’ George Kirby on the wrist […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Norms, DJ Stewart, George Kirby, Interleague Play, Pablo Lopez, Ron Darling, Twins, Tylor Megill All games have their highlights, even the Mets’ Saturday afternoon 8-4 loss to the Twins in Minneapolis — if you watched or listened to it, choose YOUR favorite highlight! • David Peterson delivered the very definition of a quality start! 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Excessive Use of Exclamation Points, Highlights, Not Drew Smith, Pete Alonso |
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