 
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. |
All is fleeting, grasshopper. Even baseball teams. Especially baseball teams. Mets come, Mets go. The franchise is an ever-shifting assemblage of overlapping stints in orange and blue, some lasting years, some concluded in minutes. For a fun game, construct a chain of overlapping Met teammates back to 1962 with as few links as possible; what I […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bullpen, Bullpen Churn, David Festa, David Stearns, Edwin Diaz, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Mark Vientos, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Trade Deadline, Twins, Tyler Zuber So that was certainly a palate cleanser. The thud made by the back half of the series against the Braves left me fretting: that the Mets were about to topple into one of their periodic team slumps, that their starters would routinely implode in the middle innings, that new bullpen acquisitions would flame out, that … […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Santana, Jose Butto, Jose Quintana, Laughers, Luis Torrens, Matt Wallner, Pete Alonso, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Twins, Tyrone Taylor I suppose every good party is followed by a helluva hangover. The Mets drew within half a game of the Braves with an unlikely victory Thursday night, passed them in the standings with an absolute beatdown on Friday … and then reality set in. Saturday was Spencer Schwellenbach muzzling them, whoever he was. And Sunday … […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Gamel, Braves, David Peterson, Jesse Winker, Lack of Hitting, Ramon Laureano, Ryne Stanek, Tyrone Taylor The Mets’ return to Mercury went about as well as the maiden voyage 25 years ago. On July 27, 1999, New York’s National League franchise garbed up as from the planet closest to the sun and got burned, competitively and aesthetically. They lost to the Pirates that night and looked like…let’s say not Mets. Not […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bizarreness, Jesse Winker, Mercury Mets, Ryne Stanek, Spencer Schwellenbach, Tylor Megill I’d like the bottom of the third inning from Friday night’s game bottled, if you please. Seriously, that was a high ABV brew to settle even the most high-strung Mets fan’s nerves. Down 2-0 against Charlie Morton — one of the few remaining big leaguers with sufficient tenure to have appeared at Shea — the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Duvall, Adam Ottavino, Braves, Charlie Morton, Eric Orze, Francisco Alvarez, Howie Rose, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jose Iglesias, Keith Raad, Lino Urdaneta, Marcell Ozuna, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Wild Card One out from another inning on this, the eve of the Summer Olympics. The Mets had handed out pickleball paddles to lucky ticketholders when the night began, though I don’t think pickleball is an Olympic sport. I don’t think baseball is an Olympic sport this year, either, but that’s OK. We’re not going for the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Sale, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Luis Severino, Olympics, Phil Maton, Rainbows, Ramon Laureano, Whit Merrifield The first wave of excitement crested Wednesday night with the completion of the Subway Series sweep, both this week’s and this year’s. Of course it was exciting. It was Mets 12 Yankees 3, with five home runs for the visitors who made themselves at home inside the surprisingly friendly confines of Yankee Stadium. Two for […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Alex Young, Danny Young, Emily Litella, Excitement, Fig Urine, Francisco Lindor, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Realization, Sean Manaea, Subway Series Sweep, Tyrone Taylor Plan A, in all likelihood, was not to have Jake Diekman face Juan Soto and Aaron Judge with the Mets clinging to a smidge of a one-run lead. You could hear that judgment in Gary Cohen’s voice as WPIX went to the break before the bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium. You probably heard […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Alex Young, Ben Rice, Christian Scott, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.D. Davis, Jake Diekman, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Luis Gil, Luis Severino, Luke Weaver, Michael Tonkin, Phil Maton, Relief Pitching, Subway Series, Yankees Monday night’s game against the always delightful Marlins in always delightful New Soilmaster Stadium unfolded as your recapper and family made their way from coastal Maine to an ancient inn outside of Boston, and the game kept morphing and changing shape along with our situation and surroundings. While we were bombing down 95 south of Portland […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, Jake Burger, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Josh Bell, Marlins, Yonny Chirinos “Why is Howie talking about LBJ? I wonder if that means … oh.” It was quite a way to find out about the latest election-year earthquake, with the news delivered via MLB Audio a second after we tuned in while scooting around midcoast Maine with friends on the final day of this year’s summer residency. Discovering […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Howie Rose, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Marlins |
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