How good is Noah Syndergaard? They’ve got ways old-fangled and newfangled for measuring that — such as an 0.69 ERA in his first 13 innings and a FIP of 0.53 to indicate that ERA should be even more microscopic. Here’s a less-quantitative but thoroughly heartfelt measure: when things go wrong, Syndergaard’s the guy we’re sure will […]
 
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. |
It wasn’t exactly on my bucket list — unless you’re redefining the term to mean “stuff that makes me want to puke when I think about enduring it” — but I can now say I’ve been through an Opening Day that I was dreading. Dreading Opening Day? What a bizarre thing for a lifelong fan to say. […]  34 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, ESPN, Matt Harvey, Mike Moustakas, Opening Day, Royals, Yoenis Cespedes I’ve never run through a brick wall, not even figuratively, but an advance viewing of the E:60 documentary Matt Harvey: The Dark Knight Rises filled me with the impulse to follow the title character through one. Seriously, where he throws, I will follow. The same film also convinced me that Matt probably put his head […] It was a win, which made it much better than a loss, but for a Mets fan, it was mostly uneasy. The Mets were making their second Sunday Night Baseball appearance of 1998 on ESPN, their twentieth overall. The previous nineteen — beginning with the very first SNB telecast in 1990 and running through early […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Billy Wagner, Brian McRae, Carlos Baerga, Carlos Delgado, ESPN, Jason Bay, Jerry Manuel, Joe Torre, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Mo Vaughn, Replay, Robin Ventura, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History, Victor Zambrano, Willie Randolph Coming this Sunday night: The favorite football team of many (if not all) Mets fans, playing for the championship of its sport. Coming NO Sunday night in 2012, as far as we know right now: The favorite baseball team of all Mets fans, playing for anything…not even to get us closer to 2013. ESPN released its preliminary […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro Pena, Alex Ochoa, Anthony Young, Bobby Bonilla, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Bret Saberhagen, Butch Huskey, Dick Schofield, Doc Gooden, ESPN, Jeff Kent, Jeff Torborg, John Franco, Kevin Morgan, Mackey Sasser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Schourek, Replacement Mets, Sonia Sotomayor, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History |
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