 
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. |
The Mets won Sunday’s game by three if you’re counting high-leverage relievers rested. Brooks Raley? Rested. Yup, that’s three. Each pitcher pitched some on Saturday, and one of them (Raley) pitched on Friday, and you know what they say about relievers’ arms falling off should you try to use them a second or […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Billy Eppler, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Dominic Leone, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Josh Walker, Network, Options, Relief Pitching, Saturday Night Live, Vinny Nittoli White Flight Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Mets for some time now, but the home of the Braves outdid itself Tuesday night, first with a rain delay that didn’t actually feature rain — they watered the goddamn infield when guys could have been playing on it — and then with horrible […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pitchers The first half of Wednesday’s game burbled vaguely out of my phone from a waterproof pouch around my neck: It was Opening Day for kayak season, so first I was sitting in a boat off a Brooklyn Bridge Park pier making sure people didn’t drown or do anything dopey and then I was hauling racks […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baby Mets, Brandon Marsh, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, Defense, Francisco Lindor, Mark Canha, Phillies, Roger Clemens, Trea Turner Saddled with the understanding that your team is not going to win them all, the best a fan can hope for is an optimal sorting out of the order of inevitable losses. Take the Mets-Cubs series just completed. After competing on a stratospheric high, as the Mets did on their last homestand, they were, because […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 100-Game Winners, Brett Baty, Carlos Carrasco, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Sanchez, Leo Durocher, Mickey Lolich, Pete Alonso, Team History A confounding Mets season took another confounding turn Monday afternoon, when the team followed up Sunday’s burst of offensive competence (counterpoint, maybe the Nationals decided to experiment and do Whip-Its between innings) by once again looking like an outfit with zero resemblance to a professional baseball team. Going into Monday, you might have said, “Well, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Frustration, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Ronny Mauricio, What a Terrible Team Baseball is a fine diversion in all its forms, with one of its bedrock pleasures how those forms change day to day. On Friday the Mets inflicted horrors on the A’s and the A’s inflicted horrors on themselves, leading to a 17-6 win unique in the annals of Met scorekeeping and verging on unique for […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Conner Capel, David Robertson, Kevin Smith, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Pitch Clock, Shintaro Fujinami Sunday was another at least mildly notable first for the still-young 2023 season, and unfortunately I’m not referring to the sophomore-year debut of Francisco Alvarez. Our catcher of the future went one for four, with the one a dunker of an RBI single, while making some good throws to second and one bad one. One […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryan De La Cruz, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Alvarez, Garrett Cooper, Marlins, Starling Marte Carlos Carrasco appeared forlorn, first on the mound, more so in the clubhouse when reporters asked him about his declining velocity, his difficulties adjusting to the timer and everything else that had gone wrong. Tommy Hunter had no choice but to wear a hit-eating grin when the camera found him at his lowest. The pitching […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 10-0 Losses, 1984 Mets, 2003 Mets, Basketball, Brad Wilkerson, Brewers, Brice Durang, Carlos Carrasco, David Cone, Expos, Gary Carter, Grand Slams, Home Openers, Luis Guillorme, Passover, Position Players Pitching, Ron Darling, San Juan Expos, Steve Trachsel, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tommy Hunter I was looking forward to watching Jose Quintana pitch early this season, much as I looked forward to watching Shaun Marcum pitch early in 2013 and Carlos Carrasco pitch early in 2021, to name two offseason pickups who were waylaid en route to their Met debuts by Spring Training injuries. Quintana has a small stress […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Jason Bay, Jose Quintana, Lost Boys Found, Rotation Depth, Shaun Marcum, Spring Training Injuries, Team History Carlos Carrasco was bad, inexplicable Mets punching bag Pablo Lopez was good, the Marlins were pesky even by their loathsome standards and the Mets lost a game that had a queasy, out-of-sorts feeling to it from the get-go. And yes, down in D.C. the Braves smacked the crap out of the Nats, and so now […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Frustration, Jacob Stallings, James McCann, Jerry Blevins, JJ Bleday, Marlins, Mr. Met, Pablo Lopez, Pete Alonso, Richard Bleier, Ties, Trevor Williams, Weather |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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