On Sunday morning, I read the Mets had lost their final game before the All-Star break the previous seven years there had been an All-Star break (which is to say not including 2020). Hence, I kept my hopes in check that the Mets would extend their momentum to a six-game winning streak and burnish the […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Break, Annual Loss Before the Break, Ezequiel Tovar, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Michael Toglia, Pete Alonso, Rockies If you were beginning to worry that the All-Star break would impede the Mets’ gathering momentum for a push toward playoff contention, rest easy this week. There is no momentum. There will be no playoff contention. All provisional prognostication is subject to change with the emergence of the next six-game winning streak, but by the time […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Flat as a Pancake, Hit By Pitch, Joe Musgrove, Kodai Senga, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham In 1969, 1973, 2000 and 2015, the Mets qualified for the postseason without the benefit of capturing their first game after the All-Star break, thus if you need a little precedent to take the edge off the first game the 2022 Mets played in five days leaving you wondering if they thought Friday night was […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ledesma, All-Star Break, Armando Benitez, Billy Eppler, Bubba Trammell, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Charlie Puleo, Chasen Bradford, Chris Woodward, Colin Holderman, Daniel Vogelbach, Eric Hosmer, J.C. Martin, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cairo, Nolan Ryan, Old Friends, Passion, Second Half, Second-Half Openers, Team History, Trades, Yu Darvish What a way to get a game going! Which is where a Mets fan of tenure turned from dispensing exclamation points to issuing question marks. The way this Mets fan of tenure saw it, there […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, All-Star Break, Blown Leads, Francisco Lindor, Gut Instinct, Kumar Rocker, Michael Conforto, Pirates The 2016 baseball season began approximately ten minutes ago and is now more than half over. It has tied the major league record for how quickly time flies, set in every other baseball season. Even the ones that drag zip by before you know it. Embroidered in the fabric of the baseball season to remind us […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, All-Star Break, Amazin' Again, Perspective The goal of every baseball fan this time of year is to endure the All-Star break while complaining about its existence as much as possible. It’s interminable, it’s endless, it’s too long. Find some more synonyms. Traditionally, by Wednesday it’s completely outlived its utility, yet they went and extended it a few years ago to […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Franchise Four, Jacob deGrom, PItching |
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