The most delightful aspect of the 2021 Mets to date that hasn’t involved Jacob deGrom pitching and hitting has been the emergence of the self-anointed Bench Mob, the aggregation of heretofore part-timers who’ve produced plentifully when called on, which has also plentifully. Riding to our injury-riddled rescue in the grand tradition of Bambi’s Bandits, Hondo’s […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bench Mob, Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Hamstrings, Injuries, Interleague Play, Jake Hager, Jeff McNeil, Jeremy Hefner, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Tomas Nido The eleventh inning was rolling around Blaine looked to the plate Cabrera commenced Flores was the Met Cabrera wasn’t swift […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Asdrubal Cabrera, Blaine Boyer, Brewers, Chris Carter, Danny Kaye, Jonathan Villar, Kelly Johnson, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Reynolds, Replay Review, Scooter Gennett, Wilmer Flores Mets alumni news you’ve probably heard this spring: • Jose Reyes is a Miami Marlin. Mets alumni news you might have missed: • Lastings […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Ochoa, Benny Agbayani, Bruce Boisclair, C.J. Nitkowski, Chris Carter, Craig Brazell, Don Zimmer, Edgardo Alfonzo, Felix Millan, Gary Rajsich, Ike Hampton, Japan, Jon Nunnally, Kelvin Torve, Kevin Mitchell, Lastings Milledge, Mark Carreon, Matt Franco, Mike Fyhrie, Mike Hessman, Mike Marshall, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Tom O'Malley, Wayne Garrett, Yu Darvish For several hours Thursday I grappled with a modest identity crisis. My lifelong affiliation with the Capricorn party was cast into doubt by an astrological development that claimed I was actually a Sagittarius. I haven’t eyeballed my horoscope in decades, yet being a Capricorn — goat horns and all — has always been as much […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Identity, Mets Fan Philosophy, Zodiac If a manager and a general manager fall in the forest of rumors and you don’t hear it, did it happen? If the buzz surrounding a potential double-dismissal drowns out the noise from a walkoff home run, did the dinger make a sound? And if you’re standing in a deserted dugout after batting practice has […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 30 Rock, Blogging, Chris Carter, Delta Club, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Josh Thole, Media, Mike Pelfrey, Omar Minaya, public relations, R.A. Dickey, West Wing ’Twas a victory of and for the Damned. Damned Castillo. Damned Francoeur. Damned Rodriguez. Damned Mets and their perpetually damning fans. We won the damn thing! Y’know what, I’m not even gonna give ya the spiel about it’s just one game. Of course it’s just one game. That’s what a baseball season is: 162 episodes of just […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Francisco Rodriguez, Jeff Francouer, Jerry Reed, John Mellencamp, Luis Castillo, Manny Acosta, R.A. Dickey Call it a laugher that didn’t seem that funny at the beginning. Despite it being hot enough in Baltimore to turn steel into taffy, Mike Pelfrey couldn’t seem to get loose. Or something else was wrong with him for a worrisome percentage of the game: From the beginning we were faced with the old Pelf, looking […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Camden Yards, Chris Carter, Jesus Feliciano, Mike Pelfrey, Rituals I have adopted a new all-purpose rating system lately, inspired by the presence on the New York Mets pitching staff of a certain knuckleballing journeyman who has won our hearts and made me lose my mind. • If I like something, it is “rad”. • If I don’t care for it, it is “icky”. Why have I decided […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Designated Hitter, Ed Rapuano, Gary Cohen, Interleague Play, knuckleball, Orioles, R.A. Dickey, Rod Barajas, Ron Darling The setting: Visitors clubhouse, Turner Field Boys, gather round. You’ve got a big game coming up in a few minutes, and I wanna set you all of base monkeys straight. I didn’t fly into Atlanta to fire anybody, no sirree […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chaos, Chris Carter, Inspiration, Jeff Wilpon, Mike Pelfrey Even fans of juggernauts endure a fair number of four-run deficits in the eighth, as games that haven’t felt particularly close trudge to a merciful conclusion. Being a baseball fan means putting up with God knows how many such affairs — lousy, irritating games that you stick with because bad baseball is ever so slightly […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Carter, Comebacks, Ike Davis, Superstition |
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