 
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. |
Brandon Nimmo finally remembers how to steal bases and in activating his dormant skill aggravates a quad that merits exiting the game early, receiving imaging later and monitoring on a day-to-day basis. But I don’t want to talk about that. Jeff McNeil throws his body into every possible defensive play and has trouble getting up a couple […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  200 Wins, 2022 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Endurance, Francisco Lindor, Gratification, Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Tapani, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Taijuan Walker, Team History, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays You cannot, in fact, win them all. To be clear, 15-7 with April in the books is pretty good — that’s a 110-win pace according to the dictates of not particularly advanced math. And it’s hard to get too sore about losing a day after watching a no-hitter, even if you’re a fan of a club […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bartolo Colon, Kyle Schwarber, Robinson Cano, Sean Reid-Foley, Steve Cohen, Taijuan Walker, Victor Zambrano Welcome to the ninth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Mets of the 2010s, Wilmer Flores Zack Wheeler struck out eleven Phillies in the course of throwing seven shutout innings Tuesday night at Citi Field, which was extremely nice and fairly necessary. Wheeler’s a pitcher, and it’s his job to pitch very well. Replicating his trajectory of 2018, except sooner, he’s gone from shaky […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jeremy Hefner, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Team History, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler Some games words filter into your brain. The word of the night Friday was “taut,” as in nice and tight, the way you’d figure someone who intermittently devotes himself to baseball as something of an academic discipline would like it. Give a student of the game a 2-1 affair won by his favorite team and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Analytics, Andrew Knapp, Bartolo Colon, Ben Lively, Broadcasters, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, SABR, Sandy Alderson, Tautness, Tim Tebow, Tom Goodwin, Ty Kelly, Yoenis Cespedes Neil Walker apparently forgot how many outs there were. Jose Reyes ensured there were more outs than there should have been. Jacob deGrom walked five batters, gave up five runs and barely made it through five innings. Glenn Sherlock betrayed a fetishistic fondness for red lights when green would have been the stylish choice. Curtis […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Blowouts, Curtis Granderson, Eric O'Flaherty, Glenn Sherlock, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Neil Walker, Rene Rivera, Travis d'Arnaud, Uniclone Scores I knew Monday night’s game against the Marlins would be emotionally wrenching. I think we all did. But I wasn’t prepared for just how tough it would be, and how tough it kept being. There was the sight of every Marlin wearing Jose Fernandez‘s No. 16, and the knowledge that it would never be worn again. There was […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Fernandez, Justin Bour, Marlins, Martin Prado, Moment of Silence, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes My preparations for watching Friday night’s game included slippers and finding the fake fur throw that my wife was horrified when I bought — TV-watching components that made their last appearance one chilly day in May. It’s the baseball circle of life — a young season that needed spring thawing before we discovered what it […] There was nothing particularly memorable about the Mets’ Labor Day matinee against the Reds: Bartolo Colon was really good, Matt Reynolds had a nice day, and the Reds played terrible baseball whenever it was helpful to the Mets for them to do so. That about covers it. But this was a game that deserves to be […] Shortly after the Mets wrapped up their third straight win over the Marlins Wednesday night, I had an odd vision: Alejandro De Aza hits the home run that proves to be the difference in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series. He’s mobbed by 24 Mets, all of them emergency call-ups from the minors. Shortly […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Delusion, Hope, Injuries, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Wilmer Flores |
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