It is one of my most deeply ingrained articles of faith that if a Met hits a grand slam, especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets in front — especially if a Met hits a grand slam that puts the Mets ahead in the late innings of game that stands […]
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angels, Grand Slams, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Kevin Pillar, Lack of Momentum, Roy Kent As one who doesn’t subscribe to Peacock, I couldn’t tell you what Sunday’s Mets-Angels game looked like, but from the sound of it over WCBS-AM, it was quite the staring contest. The Mets stared at the Angels. The Angels stared at the Mets. It was 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. Two teams used to staring into […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Angels, Austin Jackson, Casey Kasem, Cory Sullivan, David Peterson, Dead End Achievers, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Interlopers Among Us, Kevin Bass, Nori Aoki, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Radio, Rafael Ortega, Ron Swoboda, Semi-Pro, Shohei Ohtani, Team History, Walkoffs, Wilson Delgado The Mets lost, which is once again what they do: Carlos Carrasco was awful again and at this point one has to conclude he’s hurt, done or both; the bullpen was superb but it didn’t matter, as the offense didn’t hit enough or hit when it would have been useful. The dregs of the game brought […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, Jose Soriano, Pete Alonso, Shohei Ohtani, What Ifs After a brief flurry of optimism or at least acceptance, garbage time is officially back. Before the season, a late August Mets-Angels tilt looked like one to circle on the calendar. Who wouldn’t exult in the prospect of watching Pete Alonso and Kodai Senga go up against Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout on two playoff-bound […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Angels, Casey Stengel, Danny Mendick, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Orosco, Joey Cora, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Kelvin Torve, Kodai Senga, Last Place, Marlon Anderson, Mike Piazza, Randal Grichuk, Retired Numbers, Shohei Ohtani, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays OK, so Sunday’s 4-1 victory over the Angels wasn’t the most memorable of ballgames — no crazed rollercoaster of lead changes, indelible highlights or controversies. But it was satisfying nonetheless: a trim, tidy baseball game, easy to admire if not necessarily one to commit to the top shelf of memory. The Mets got a couple of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Buck Showalter, Closers, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Kurt Suzuki, Mike Trout, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tony La Russa, West Coast Trips Here’s a new proposal for shortening the length of baseball games: shorten the length of baseball games. Or shorten the length of one baseball game in particular by one inning. Let us retroactively by 24 hours implement such a rule so it is applicable only to Saturday evening Interleague contests conducted in facilities constructed after […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alex Meyer, Angels, Angst, Danny Espinosa, Eight-Inning Games, Fernando Salas, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Milestones, Neil Ramirez, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter If you had money on the Mets pummeling Braves ace Julio Teheran, well, I hope you dropped by the corner store and bought a whole bunch of Lotto tickets. The Mets scorched Teheran from the get-go, when Curtis Granderson drove one off the facing of the Pepsi Porch. They kept it up with Daniel Murphy‘s […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Jacob deGrom, Julio Teheran, Milestones, Records, Yankees They hit ’em out of Anaheim. They hit ’em into Los Angeles. They hit ’em until geographic borders were obliterated. They scored 14 times. They were Ram-tough in Orange County as if they still had a team there that takes the field in blue and yellow. It was such a thorough thumping of New Yorkers that […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bartolo Colon, Blowouts, Flipper Anderson, Toby Basner Can we talk about the Angels? I’ll grant you that the entire AL West is essentially uncharted on my personal baseball map, but the Angels are the true terra incognita. This shouldn’t be — the Angels are essentially us, a mere year older thanks to the AL pushing to the head of the expansion line. But […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Stadium, Angels, Extra Innings, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Farnsworth, Mike Trout, Scott Boras, West Coast Trips |
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