Even in this age of humidors, Coors Field still produces games like Saturday night’s, with hits raining down like artillery, big leads proving smaller than they look on paper, a starting pitcher who’s been effective elsewhere left gasping for air, and relievers sawing the bullpen phone off the wall and hiding in that weird little […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  City Connect, Coors Field, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Justin Verlander, Nolan Jones, Rockies, Starling Marte After five days of electric baseball, the Mets once again look like someone pulled the plug out of the wall. At least — and those are never good words to see up high in a recap — this time they didn’t look flat enough to slip under a door, the way they did in the opener […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Marcus Stroman, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Starling Marte, Wrigley Field You’ve probably heard this before, but baseball is designed to break your heart. Twenty-nine of 30 fanbases are destined to have their teams’ seasons end other than the way they’d wanted — with a victory that doesn’t mean anything or a loss that means everything. If you’re one of the unlucky 29, there comes an afternoon […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Disappointment, Endings, Joe Musgrove, John Franco, Padres, Trent Grisham, Wild Card The good part is that Citi Field still knows how to bring the noise for a postseason game. I was there Friday night for Game 1 of the Wild Card Series (or whatever it’s called, I don’t really care), and the stadium was loud bordering on deafening — not just the A/V system, though that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Bad Fans, Booing, Disappointment, Josh Bell, Jurickson Profar, Max Scherzer, Padres, Starling Marte, Wild Card, Yu Darvish 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 Something I do when making real-world decisions is ask, “what’s the worst thing that could happen?” and then adjusting my plans as needed. (“I could get hit by a car that I won’t know is coming around that corner” = maybe don’t do that, while “the weather means the flight’s canceled and I get there […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chris Bassitt, Dansby Swanson, Disappointment, Matt Olson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wild Card I suppose I should have seen it coming — a beat-up team coming home (or at least to its hometown) after a bonkers throwdown in Philadelphia that had to have left everyone involved down to their last dregs of adrenaline. The Mets didn’t look like they had anything in the tank Monday night against the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Andrew Benintendi, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Domingo German, Max Scherzer, Oswaldo Cabrera, Yankees The Mets are really good, but playing against competition several ticks above the last week’s slate of opponents will remind you that other teams are good too. Like the Dodgers — who now have 34 wins to the Mets’ 35 but are also 17 games over .500, standing with them, the Yankees and the Astros […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Taijuan Walker, Tony Gonsolin The New York Mets are worth your time. They’ve got a rich history, by turns tragic and comic and occasionally even triumphant, that’s fun to be a part of. And one year, maybe even a year pretty soon, they’ll add something to the triumphant part of that history. And that’ll definitely be worth your time. But […] Time just gets away from us. Mattie Ross says that at the end of Charles Portis’ sublime True Grit, a benediction so flat and matter of fact that it comes all the way around and serves as an elegy in spite of itself. Those words keep creeping into my mind as the Mets continue their freefall […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Charlie Watts, Disappointment, Rolling Stones, Shea Stadium, Time, Tony Tarasco |
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