As Wilmer Font unraveled around 8 p.m. and Mets Twitter started shooting off typography puns, I promised that by 11 p.m. I’d have figured out a Comic Sans joke. But here it is past 1 a.m. and the title of this post is the closest you’re going to get. Have at it in the comments […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Starting Pitching, Wilmer Font The Mets are an ordinary ballclub. They’re definitely not very good, they’re probably not very bad, even if five losses on a six-game road trip leaves you believing they couldn’t be much worse. They could be. They could also be better. It’s a long season. Teams that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Getaway Games, Hunter Renfroe, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Matt Strahm, Ordinary Baseball Team, Padres, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Tyler Bashlor, Wilmer Font Steven Matz went deep. Amed Rosario went deeper. Pete Alonso went deepest of all. Edwin Diaz made certain we didn’t plumb the depths. And that is how the New York Mets took sole possession of first place twelve games into the 2019 season, which clinches the Mets absolutely nothing. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Amed Rosario, Braves, Edwin Diaz, First Place, Freddie Freeman, Homers Hit as Hard as Hell, Jonny Venters, National League East, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, SunTrust Park I haven’t had many complaints with Mickey Callaway of late, but I do not believe he properly prepared his team on Wednesday night in Philadelphia coming off of the Yom Kippur fast, for they played as if lightheaded and starved for offense. Perhaps Rabbi Callaway or Cantor […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Amed Rosario, Champale, Final Records, Losing Seasons, M*A*S*H, Mathematically Eliminated, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Shawn Green, Statistical Obsessions, Team History, Tim Peterson, Yom Kippur The upset of the season occurred Sunday afternoon as I was upset — mildly, but palpably (if not Papelbon) — that the brink-of-elimination Mets were defeated by the cusp-of-clinching Red Sox. The two teams may play in the same quadrant of the country, but they’ve hardly competed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Sale, Fan Groove Back, Hope, Jack Reinheimer, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Red Sox, Righteously Annoyed, Seth Lugo The Mets and Marlins were supposed to play two baseball games starting at 4:10 pm, but at 4:10 pm it was raining. Not particularly hard — you could almost call it Corey Oswalt weather — but hard enough. It stayed that way through 5:10 pm, through 6:10 pm, through the time the Mets would have played […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Doubleheaders, Jay Bruce, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Zack Wheeler The Mets’ second-half surge to the periphery of mediocrity ran into a roadblock Monday night: a team decidedly better than them. Not that the Mets can’t lose within their peer group or take random advantage of a contender bogged down in doldrums, but for the most part […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Cubs, Daniel Murphy, Good Teams Beating Bad Teams, Jon Lester, Jose Bautista, Kevin Plawecki, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nationals, Neil Simon, Noah Syndergaard, Suckbomb The Mets only came to Citi Field to do two things Saturday afternoon: kick some National ass and hand out some Jay Bruce bobbleheads. Come the sixth inning, looked like they were almost outta bobbleheads. But they weren’t done with […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bobbleheads, Dazed and Confused, Helen Reddy, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Satisfaction, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler “Whoo! Whoo! Wasn’t that awesome?” “Well, it goes back […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Defense Optional, Dom Smith, Elio Chacon, Frank Thomas, Legends Rebooted, Richie Ashburn, Yo La Tengo, Zack Wheeler Whoever decided to release Jason Vargas and replace him with this new dynamic starting pitcher VARGY deserves the full-time GM job. VARGY was NOT AT ALL VARGAS as he tamed the Phillies for five innings and lasted well into the sixth on Sunday night, providing all the pitching required […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Ike Davis, Jahn's, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Plawecki, Little League Classic, Michael Conforto, Reluctant Youth Movements, Vargy, Williamsport |
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