A pretty good baseball team soundly defeated another pretty good baseball team on Friday night in a corner of the country far from the one where I struggled to stay awake to witness the entirety of the contest. By drifting off as I tend to when baseball games begin inconveniently late where I am, I […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Late Night West Coast Games, Mariners, Naps, Shutouts Oh, look — the three National League Wild Card teams at the moment are the San Diego Padres, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the New York Mets, while the three National League division leaders remain the Philadelphia Phillies, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Milwaukee Brewers. Who is missing from this “if the playoffs began today…” picture? […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Lovely Sights in Rearview Mirrors, Premature Jocularity Aw, I missed a triple? I did. I nodded off in the seventh, shortly after Jose Butto came on in relief of Paul Blackburn, the score at Coors Field knotted at two. That’ll happen with any game that starts any time after 7:10 where I sit; then stretch out; then close my eyes for just […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Catchers Tripling, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, John Stearns, Sleep, Triples The Chicago White Sox ended their 21-game losing streak Tuesday night, preventing them from owning outright the worst skid in American League history and momentarily pausing their pursuit of hallowed infamy that for 62 years has belonged to us. But as players and managers usually say following a loss rather than a win, it was […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Brendan Rodgers, Colt .45s, Colt Stadium, Coors Field, Curfews, Dick Young, Futility, Harrison Bader, Jimmy Breslin, Kris Bryant, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Marv Throneberry, Rain Delays, Team History, Ties, Tigers, Torn Dugout Netting, White Sox Strolling around Denver might have made for a lovely off day Monday, but I’d guess the Mets were happy to be called into the St. Louis satellite office to catch up on some work when all was said and done. What’s an extra time zone’s travel when you can pick up a win? Sean Manaea looked […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gilda Radner, Makeup Games, Sean Manaea, Shutouts Let’s see…nine innings coming to bat…six innings with runners reaching…two innings with runners scoring…no more than one run scoring in any one inning. That’s not a lot of offense to work with, and the Mets didn’t make it work for them. Five base hits, four walks, one hit-by-pitch, three opposition errors, yet all of two runs […] It is one of my most deeply ingrained articles of faith that if a Met hits a grand slam, especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets in front — especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets ahead in the late innings of game that stands […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Grand Slams, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Kevin Pillar, Lack of Momentum, Roy Kent Analysis before the trade deadline: We got Paul Blackburn? Who the bleep is…oh wait, the name is slightly familiar. Right, Paul Blackburn was an All-Star a couple of years ago. I remember that because when I saw he was representing the A’s in 2022, I thought, “who the bleep is…?” As Friday night’s game got going: […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Thomson, Paul Blackburn, Quick Assumptions, Trade Deadline, Tylor Megill, Winning Pitching Mets pitching on Wednesday was not a strong suit, an observation easily borne out by the 8-3 pounding the Minnesota Twins pasted on the staff as an up-and-down homestand concluded with a harsh thud, hardly providing an auspicious prelude to the pending Road Trip From Hell. Luis Severino (3 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 6 […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alphabetical Order, David Aardsma, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Huascar Brazoban, Jack Benny, Matt Gage, Obsessions to Stay Awake For, Team History, Tyler Zuber |
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