 
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 know you don’t want to hear it right now, but that was a great game. It zipped along taut and tense, it featured a great pitchers’ duel and a brush with history, it turned on a player’s split-second decision, and it ended with a crushing reversal of fortune. If you were in the park — […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bad Fundies, Brandon Nimmo, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Disgusting Losses, Edwin Diaz, Jameson Taillon, Joe Wallis, Joey Wendle, Luis Guillorme, Luis Severino, No-Hit Bids, Tom Seaver Intrigue lurked here and there among the Mets and Cardinals for seven innings Sunday afternoon. So, frankly, did boredom. As a baseball fan, you don’t want to dismiss a game with little scoring as boring; as a baseball fan, you are conditioned to appreciate tautness and tension, and there was a little much action between […] Adrian Houser seems like a decent sort. And he pitched cromulently enough for the Brewers last year: eight wins, a 4.12 ERA, a 3.99 FIP that suggested he’d earned his more conventional numbers. Yet he’s the first 2024 Met I can’t stand. Houser’s been horrible, which he admitted after the latest debacle on Saturday, calling his pitching […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Cardinals, City Connect, Feckless Nibblers, Francisco Lindor, Josh Walker, Pete Alonso, Pitchers, Prayers for Deliverance, Rays, Ryan Helsley, Tylor Megill For Saturday, it will be City Connects getting our attention. On Friday, it was what we might quaintly refer to as a national telecast. Or should we say a globally available stream? Whatever it is called, it was Cardinals at Mets on Apple TV+, which meant the visuals (even if you took advantage of the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apple TV+, Billy Joel, Bothsidesism, Cardinals, Catchers, City Connect, Francisco Alvarez, Identity, Jerry Grote, Joni Mitchell, Jose Butto, Tomas Nido, Zack Short If you’re a dispassionate observer of New York Mets baseball, you’d take Francisco Lindor’s 4-for-4 day with a pair of homers and a quartet of RBIs on Wednesday and interpret that as a long overdue breakout that augurs well for an established star getting back to his career norm and likely having a characteristically terrific […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bill Pulsipher, Four Horsemen of the Metpocalypse, Francisco Lindor, Internal Affairs, Jack Leiter, Liam Pulsipher, Milestones, Pedro Martinez, Roberto Clemente Well, at least this time Mets pitchers didn’t walk anybody. Luis Severino wasn’t giving out free passes Tuesday night in San Francisco, and for four innings he wasn’t let any Giant earn his way onto the bases either. But the well ran dry in the fifth as lousy sequencing and buzzards’ luck combined to turn a […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, Logan Webb, Luis Severino Pete Alonso homered. Michael Conforto homered. Just like swell not so old times. Except they didn’t come close to tearing each other’s shirts off. Things change and move on. The Big Man can still bust the Citi and other ballparks in half, but he cycles through new handshake partners all the time. Does anybody in […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Home Runs, Michael Conforto, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Time’s Flight Baseball: So Betts, Ohtani and Freeman reached base 12 times in Saturday’s Mets-Dodgers game. — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry.bsky.social) Apr 20, 2024 at 11:46 PM Like I said, that was Saturday. On Sunday, the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Brooks Raley, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Grant Hartwig, Mookie Betts, Shohei Ohtani, Tomas Nido, Tyler Glasnow, Will Smith What do you suppose those 11 Mets and 13 Dodgers who were left on base Saturday did to amuse themselves while a baseball game was proceeding to nifty conclusion without them? Given what a beautiful day it appeared to be in Chavez Ravine, my guess is they broke out the wicker baskets and treated themselves […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adonis Medina, Baseball Porn, Dodgers, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jose Butto, LOBs, Michael Tonkin, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Tension, Tomas Nido, Whitey Herzog The Mets should consider this a friendly suggestion. They should also look good in their new uniforms. This is a test, by the way. We’ve been having a few technical problems and hope to work them out so you can visit our site with ease, link to previous articles and share your thoughts Metwise. Thank you for […] |
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