Once upon a time the Mets were down six runs in the seventh and with my eyes on bedtime I composed a minor recap I knew wasn’t a classic but thought did its duty well enough, particularly grading on the curve for West Coast night-owl duty. It was called “Ten Commandments for a West Coast […]
 
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. |
 18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Giants, Joc Pederson, Madness, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoff Losses What a strange game. The Mets and Mariners — those foes from so many past epics — met again under bottom-of-the-aquarium conditions, getting started late because of rain and squinting their way through the final innings because of fog. The meteorological strangeness was matched by plenty of the on-the-field variety, with Chris Bassitt looking frustrated with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Munoz, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, George Kirby, Jesse Winker, Mariners, Patrick Mazeika Taijuan Walker looked to be experiencing back discomfort on the mound and in the dugout throughout Thursday afternoon at Nationals Park. He pitched seven shutout innings while fielding his position like an athlete who happens to be the pitcher. We should all experience such discomfort. “A little tight, nothing serious,” was Tai’s postgame self-diagnosis. The National […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Double Plays That Oughta Be, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker I had a lousy Tuesday. No need for condolences — nothing of any real consequence went wrong, just a dog’s breakfast of bureaucracy and mischance and annoyances waiting at every turn. But it was enough to leave me in a foul mood, one that I tried to shake walking home over the Brooklyn Bridge, hopeful that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Joely Rodriguez, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Nats Well, well, well. That wasn’t what I thought for most of Thursday night’s game against the Phillies, but then that’s always the case with a classic comeback — you need to trudge through the vale of despond before getting sherpa’ed up Mount Probability to giddily plant the most unexpected of flags. That mountaineering metaphor’s less random than […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Gilkey, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Carl Everett, Comebacks, Corey Knebel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, Phillies, Starling Marte You get an early lead, which is good. You sweat an early lead, which is natural. You hold an early lead, which is satisfying. You do it all over again a couple of hours later and you’ve really got something there. In a parallel universe, perhaps the Braves come back on the Mets in one or […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Confidence, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo No-hitters can leave you speechless in the moment but have you saying all kinds of things you hadn’t previously uttered in the days, weeks, months and years that follow. As Mets fans, we found ourselves speaking both excitedly and differently after June 1, 2012. When your focus turns from “when are we gonna get one […] Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen Three paces that would be nice to keep up: 1) If the Mets go 7-3 fifteen more times (105-45) and they’ll be 112-48 with two games to go — and I probably won’t sweat the final two games too much. 2) If Pete Alonso matches his career total of 109 home runs six more times (654), he’ll […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggressiveness, At This Pace, Buck Showalter, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, The Buck Rule, Trevor Williams, Wind |
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