The Mets shuffled off from Buffalo with one more loss than win for their weekend’s work and three fewer games remaining on their truncated schedule, thereby humbling their already modest postseason chances. Not that they were much to begin with, but sooner or later, you can take only so much comfort from relative proximity to […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2019 Mets, David Peterson, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Nostalgia, September, Seth Lugo, Shadows, The West Wing, Todd Frazier In a sixty-game season whose primary appeal may be the encompassing of elements largely unprecedented, you pretty much have to be in it for those things you’ve never seen before. They may not add up to an orthodox major league campaign, let alone big-picture success, but they sure do get your attention. Take a 1-unassisted at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Blue Jays, Buffalo, Erasmo Ramirez, Game-Losing Pickoffs, Pitchers Fielding, Saves, Seth Lugo, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Wilson Ramos They’re messing with us, right? The Mets getting us to take them semi-seriously for another day is part of a larger prank, right? They look moribund half the time. They give up late-inning leads the other half. They play in a depressing cartoon atmosphere where balls travel a thousand feet and the fans in the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Dom DeLuise, Edwin Diaz, Michael Conforto, Nicknames, Pete Alonso Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Keep on searching now As baseball’s Winter Meetings approached in 1974, the Mets’ new general manager, Joe McDonald, drew some attention when he told […] “Whoa, there he is! Whadda you doin’ around here?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jeff McNeil, Labor Day, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Zack Wheeler In a sixty-game season with all the irregularities passed off as the new normal, it wouldn’t have been terrible to have halted Sunday afternoon’s Mets-Phillies game once it went official. Not for the usual reason that the Mets led after four-and-a-half and the bullpen later blew up, but because, in the middle of fifth inning […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Lou Brock, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, PItching, Tom Seaver Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. For me, baseball provides constant challenge, a new mental and physical test every game. Terrific only began to say it. Tom Seaver was everything to the New York Mets. Everything. He was everything to me. Everything. And I know I’m not alone in that assessment. Seaver’s death Monday at the age of 75 was announced tonight shortly after the current Mets’ win at Baltimore. I watched that game, as I watch […] Perhaps someday I’ll find myself engaged in conversation with Ariel Jurado. We’ll likely talk about his baseball career; how it brought him to the Mets; and the challenges he endured, particularly that night in Baltimore in 2020 when, in the process of becoming the franchise’s 1,107th player overall and that season’s tenth Met starting pitcher […] When the 2020 season was in the uncertain talking stage — after Spring Training, before Summer Camp — I was pretty sure of one thing: other than for historical perspective purposes, I would never want to see highlights of whatever transpired on the field once the Mets started playing, if they started playing. And once […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series |
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