 
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. |
You get an early lead, which is good. You sweat an early lead, which is natural. You hold an early lead, which is satisfying. You do it all over again a couple of hours later and you’ve really got something there. In a parallel universe, perhaps the Braves come back on the Mets in one or […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Confidence, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo You can’t argue with the numbers. I mean you can, because somebody always wants to argue something, but you’d have to dig pretty deep for a debate let alone a dispute when the Mets are steaming along as they have thus far this young season. The Mets have won 16 of their first 23 games, a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, ESPN, Great Starts, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Robinson Cano, Rosters, Series Win, Streaks No-hitters can leave you speechless in the moment but have you saying all kinds of things you hadn’t previously uttered in the days, weeks, months and years that follow. As Mets fans, we found ourselves speaking both excitedly and differently after June 1, 2012. When your focus turns from “when are we gonna get one […] Yoan Lopez came up and in on Nolan Arenado in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s almost incidental Mets loss to the Cardinals. Like what Shawn Estes threw in the greater geographic vicinity of Roger Clemens’s backside twenty years ago, Lopez’s pitch didn’t touch the batter he was facing. Unlike with Estes, Lopez’s pitch did […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Baseball Etiquette, Buck Showalter, Cardinals, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Davis, Kabuki, Nolan Arenado, Roger Clemens, Shawn Estes, Yoan Lopez Word to the National League: stop hitting the Mets. It’s not helping your cause. You’re getting them angry. And you’re getting yourselves beat. The Mets have taken pitches to the body more than any other NL team. The Mets have also piled up more wins than any other NL team. Perhaps there’s a connection. If you’re […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Hit By Pitch, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte On Saturday night in Phoenix, we learned the Mets’ starting pitching depth only goes so far. Because of injuries, we had seen our No. 1A through No. 7 starters acquit themselves brilliantly this season. We haven’t seen No. 1 — Jacob deGrom — but we can vouch for his brilliance. Everybody else, from Max Scherzer […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Depth, Strikeouts, Trevor Williams Now it’s getting serious, to the extent that anything can be serious after fourteen games. The Mets are off to a seriously good start and maybe then some. I’m not sure when a start just becomes the season, but fourteen games will do for our purposes. A seven-game road trip with five wins, a seven-game […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1010 WINS, C.W. McCall, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Great Starts, Mark Canha The game was lost when balls off the bats of Giants fell in and the balls off the bats of Mets didn’t. The game was lost was when the Mets pitcher who’d previously given up almost nothing gave up a bunch. The game was lost when the only Belt in the game delivered the only belt of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Dick Scott, Eric Chavez, Gilligan's Island, Inevitability, Jeremy Hefner, Nets, Starling Marte, Wilmer Flores Three paces that would be nice to keep up: 1) If the Mets go 7-3 fifteen more times (105-45) and they’ll be 112-48 with two games to go — and I probably won’t sweat the final two games too much. 2) If Pete Alonso matches his career total of 109 home runs six more times (654), he’ll […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggressiveness, At This Pace, Buck Showalter, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, The Buck Rule, Trevor Williams, Wind Technically, the win in the game that commenced the National League season in New York went to Chris Bassitt. Not so technically, actually. Chris, No. 40 in the common guise of No. 42, gave the Mets six superb innings, and when a Mets starting pitcher is backed by sufficient offense, that generally means the starting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Home Opener, Jackie Robinson, Nancy Seaver, Nick Plummer, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver Statue, Travis Jankowski, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms |
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