Baseball’s nothing without poetic license, whether or not Rob Manfred wishes to notarize said document. The Commissioner is intent on engineering a game built for speed. Get it over with already yet seemed the Manfred mandate for Opening Day. Start the pitch timer, throw the ball, quit yer lollygagging. It sounds reasonable in concept. It […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2023 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Stallings, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Marlins, Max Scherzer, Omar Narvaez, Opening Day, Pace of Play, Pitch Clock, Sandy Alcantara, Steve Carlton, T#m Gl@v!ne, The Paper Chase, Time of Game, Wacky Races, Yogi Berra Brandon Nimmo is “week to week” with whatever he did to his right knee and ankle this past Friday night in yet another game that counted only as much you wish it to. The Mets termed it a low-grade sprain. Nimmo, newly signed for eight years, isn’t interested in timetables or diagnoses that indicate anything […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Crawfish, Cynicism, Fatalism, Spring Training Injuries On Monday of last week, the Mets signed at top dollar a pitcher on track to land in the Hall of Fame, a pitcher still at the top of his game, a pitcher at the top of the game overall. It made us mostly forget that our best pitcher from the previous nine seasons, our […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Bay City Rollers, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Bassitt, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Joely Rodriguez, Jose Quintana, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Serious Business, Seth Lugo, Steve Cohen, Taijuan Walker, Trevor May, Trevor Williams I got a huge kick out of leafing through the 1967 Mets Yearbook years after it was published and finding that even then Ed Kranepool, a mere 24 yet the only Met left from the Mets’ first year of 1962, was referred to as “The Dean” of the Mets in terms of continuous service with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bob Moorhead, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Chris Cannizzaro, Continuity, Darryl Strawberry, David Robertson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Frank Thomas, Hubie Brooks, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, John Franco, Jose Quintana, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Justin Verlander, Longevity, Mad Men, Mets Once Removed, Mike Piazza, Mookie Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Seniority, Steve Cohen, Steve Trachsel, Team History, The Dean, Wally Backman On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card 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 To review, these days the Mets play two kinds of games, which for simplicity’s sake we’ll tally up in separate columns. In Column A, we record games like these, to quote some dumbass blogger: “ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways”. Column B is the home for games like these: “ones in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Cubs, Darin Ruf, Frustration, Javier Assad, Mark Canha, Tyler Naquin Angel Hernandez, a master of ruining endings of baseball games, was ready to roll early Sunday afternoon, out to ruin a baseball game that had barely begun. It took him all of five pitches to pull a Sparky Lyle by dropping trou and planting his bare bottom on the Mets-Marlins finale birthday cake. Brandon Nimmo, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Escobar, Extra Bases, Mariners, Ray Knight, Sparky Lyle, Taijuan Walker, Tomas Nido, Winning Series Some things don’t change even as the calendar pages do. Back in April, emphasis placed on winning series was emphasis well-directed We have now entered September. Winning series is still a very good thing. A very good goal, too, though I wouldn’t want to get too far ahead of myself. Take every day, even the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Clayton Kershaw, Darin Ruf, Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Justin Turner, Pinch-Running, Series Win, Starling Marte, Terrance Gore, Trevor May So said Buck Showalter, engaging the media after the Mets’ 2-1 win over the Dodgers, and as usual Buck was right. It was fun, wasn’t it? Fun with a side of heart-stopping terror, or at least severe spikes of anxiety, but then that’s baseball. Fun was Jacob deGrom looking every inch the debonair assassin, carving up baseball’s […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Defense, Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Ender Inciarte, Endy Chavez, Justin Turner, Mookie Betts, Narco, Starling Marte, Timmy Trumpet, Tyler Anderson |
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