When they announce the next year’s baseball schedule I take a look, because how can’t you? But after a couple of glances — When’s the home opener? How many times do we go to the West Coast? — I go back to whatever I was doing. The dates are far off, you have no idea […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Nola, Alex Young, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Quintana, Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Roger Clemens Present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: my wife, my kid, and my father-in-law. Not present at Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles: me, AKA your recapper. Honestly I got by far the better part of the deal. Well, sort of. I had a previous commitment with my buddies in the Brooklyn Bridge Park free kayaking program — […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brooklyn Cyclones, Gunnar Henderson, Jose Quintana, Orioles Given the ebbs and flows of a entertaining yet maddening season, perhaps we’ve lost track of a simpler formula to make sense of the 2024 Mets: They need to outhit their mistakes. The rotation is pedestrian, a bunch of No. 4 starters with ceilings as No. 3s. The relief corps is spaghetti at a wall. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Audacy, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, George Soriano, Hitting, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Lack of Hitting, Marlins, MLB At Bat, Radio, Roddery Munoz, Sean Manaea, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Tiki Barber So that was certainly a palate cleanser. The thud made by the back half of the series against the Braves left me fretting: that the Mets were about to topple into one of their periodic team slumps, that their starters would routinely implode in the middle innings, that new bullpen acquisitions would flame out, that … […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Santana, Jose Butto, Jose Quintana, Laughers, Luis Torrens, Matt Wallner, Pete Alonso, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Twins, Tyrone Taylor You know the old baseball saying: The team that has the sixth-best record in the league, assuming it’s at least the third-best non-first place record in that same league, is a lock to go to the postseason. And if it’s not an old saying, let’s repeat it enough so it becomes one. Congratulations to our ceaselessly […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Admirability, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Grit, Jeff McNeil, Phil Maton, Rick White, Wild Card The following is an excerpt from an article slated to be published in a forthcoming edition of The Metropolitan Journal of Sports Medicine, detailing critical work in the field of preservation of pitchers’ health. The veritable plague of pitching-related injuries and subsequent Tommy John surgeries encountered a most serious challenge as the result of advances put […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Christian Scott, Eric Orze, Mitch Keller, Oneil Cruz, Pitch Counts, Preventive Measures When your team’s going well, you call a game like Sunday afternoon’s things like “an inspiring win” or perhaps “proof of resilience.” When your team’s going badly, you just laugh at being randomly atop karma’s wheel for a day. I’m not sure what to call Sunday afternoon’s game, because I’m not sure what the Mets are. One of […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Blown Saves, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Comebacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jose Iglesias, Luis Ortiz, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Gonzales, Pirates, Sean Manaea This recap’s headline is a term we’ve heard a lot in the sabermetric age, as front offices search for previously overlooked and/or undervalued traits in players. The last two nights, I’ve found a new market inefficiency as a fan: You don’t need to watch the part of the game that doesn’t matter. I don’t recommend this […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Dedniel Nunez, Extra Innings, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred, Robert Garcia, Soapboxes Since we’re Mets fans, we all knew the bullpen had issues. Since we’re adults, we all know progress isn’t always or even usually a smooth arc — it comes with fits and starts. A day after blowing a big lead because of a nightmarish inning of relief, the Mets endured a bunch of bad luck, came […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Martinez, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Matt Festa I stopped attending Subway Series games years ago because they’re like Thanksgiving dinners where every single uncle and cousin you dislike RSVPs that they’ll show up drunk and eager to talk politics. No thanks — I’ll catch these from my couch, where any woofing mookdom can be addressed as an internal affair. That part’s predictable; the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen, Carlos Mendoza, Danny Young, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Gerrit Cole, Harrison Bader, J.D. Davis, Mark Vientos, Reed Garrett, Subway Series, Yankee, Yankees |
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