 
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. |
Lest unanimity get a bad name, let us forget the myopic groupthink that infected 30 members of the Baseball Writers Association of America and let us all instead commit to a Metsiastically agreeable concept: No Met was more valuable in 2024 than Francisco Lindor. Perhaps you have an opposing viewpoint. It takes all kinds, one supposes. In […] Elimination Day is a bit like Rosh Hashanah. You never know when exactly it’s going to show up on the calendar, yet it always fits the description of High Holy. This year, Elimination Day — no need to layer it with qualifiers, as there is only one elimination we as a Sheadenfreudic people celebrate perennially […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2024 Postseason, 2025 Mets, Dodgers, Elimination Day, Freddie Freeman, Sheadenfreude, World Series, World Series Ending And yet, it felt fantastical. I wasn’t entirely sure the road I walked was even there anymore. And even if it were there as the map said, and even if I went to walk it again on another day, another season, maybe in a different pair of shoes, it wouldn’t be the same road. I […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2024 Mets, 2024 Postseason, 2025 Mets, Francisco Lindor, Moment of Silence, Neil King Jr., Parades Yet To Be Scheduled Twice, they’ve been intended to wrap things up; once, that worked. Four times, they’ve been meant to stave off an ending; that purpose was served thrice. Now, the seventh time. We’re striving for staving. Welcome to the two most underrated words in sports: Game Six. Game Seven gets all the laurels before it becomes necessary. Quite […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1973 World Series, 1986 Mets, 1986 NLCS, 1986 World Series, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 1999 NLCS, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, 2024 Postseason, Game Six, Team History Thursday night I came home from Game Four of the National League Championship Series resigned to the 2024 Mets season being imminently over. Friday morning I awoke thinking only that there’d be a baseball game come late afternoon and that the Mets would be playing in it, and between the regular season and the postseason, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Alive, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, The Temptations Sometimes when I go grocery shopping, I’ll grab an item that I’m pretty sure we’re out of, only to come home, start putting things away and discover, oh, we didn’t need another of these. The Mets can surely relate. They went out and mindlessly tossed another NLCS Game One in their cart on Wednesday night at […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Blowouts, Dodgers, Facsimiles, Francisco Alvarez, Grocery Shopping, Kike Hernandez, Luis Severino, Max Muncy, Shohei Ohtani, Tyrone Taylor, Walker Buehler The first pitch that will carry the most weight in Game Three of the National League Championship Series will be thrown by Luis Severino. Our emotions will ride on that pitch and however many more Luis throws, each guaranteed our overwhelming support — despite Luis’s fondness for the black jerseys that will infiltrate our heretofore […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Ceremonial First Pitches, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Luis Severino, Matt Harvey, Robin Ventura, Yoenis Cespedes You have to laugh it off. “Ha.” There ya go. Seriously, though — the Mets just endured their worst-ever postseason loss in terms of run differential, and it wasn’t even close. Dodgers 9 Mets 0. The Mets had never lost in the spotlight portion of October by more than six. Few teams get beat by a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Blowouts, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen Use, Dodgers, Jack Flaherty, Jesse Winker, Kodai Senga, Robert Gsellman, Rueful Laughter, Sean Manaea, Tyler Pill, Worst Postseason Run Differential The hours before first pitch of a series that determines who goes to the World Series, regardless of time zones or network dictates, drag longer than any other hours on any clock anywhere. The Mets are going in Game One with a pitcher making his third major league start of 2024. His manager acknowledges three innings […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Adam Ottavino, Jeff McNeil, Kodai Senga, Waiting We knew it would be the warm California sun glowing amid local start times of 5:15 PM Sunday and 1:08 PM Monday. We just didn’t know in which part of the Golden State Ol’ Sol would be splashing down on the Mets. Now we do. It’s glamorous L.A., it’s gleaming Dodger Stadium, it’s the hallowed […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Bob Seger, Bring It On, Dodgers |
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