Like the names of Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker, this won’t show up in Sunday’s box score, but the Mets’ 5-1 loss to the Phillies was my thousandth game in a row. Not playing, but witnessing. I’ve watched, heard or attended at least some, usually all, of every regular-season Mets game dating back to July […]
 
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. |
 45 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Commitment, Fans, Home Run Cycle, Injuries, Out of Town Scoreboard, Robert Gsellman, Streaks Here’s your roundup of another thrilling day rooting for the incredible shrinking National League champs: Zack Wheeler‘s return to the mound was followed by not being able to throw because of elbow pain, so he’s off to see Dr. James Andrews. We’re all sure this will turn out great. 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hopelessness, Jon Niese, Logan Verrett, Michael Conforto It happens sometimes: life, that amorphous bundle of stuff, refuses to conform itself to the rhythms of 7:10 and 1:10 and 4:10. I thought I had my July 4th parceled out so three hours were reserved for the Mets game, but I hadn’t been paying attention to which day was which. I’ve got a mental list of […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Johnson, Fans, Fernando Rodney, Happy Holidays, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Lucroy, Matt Harvey, Superstition, Terry Collins, Uniforms, Yoenis Cespedes Lots of things can go wrong for a baseball team. Tuesday night — which bled painfully into Wednesday morning — brought cruddy relief, an absence of hitting and some bad luck, all familiar maladies of late. Matt Harvey looked better than he has in a while, with life on his fastball and sharp breaking stuff, but […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Lucas Giolito, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Rain Out in Milwaukee, the Mets played a baseball game that was quietly unsettling for a good chunk of the evening: Curtis Granderson led off with a home run and the Mets kept piling up base runners against a wild, ineffective Jimmy Nelson, but — in recent Metsian fashion — the protagonists failed to deliver the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Kay, Draft, Fans, Hope, Justin Dunn, Steven Matz Mets sucked, grounding out and then grounding out again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. I’d tell you more about the first game but a judge ordered me not to. Then after a robust 25 minutes in which nothing bad happened, […] Rain in the area, Gio Gonzalez and Bartolo Colon on the mound. One team scored seven. The other team scored one. You remember, right? It was five days ago, just the other side of the Brewers Interregnum. Gio was masterful, except for a cannon shot lined into the stands by Yoenis Cespedes. Bartolo was not masterful. He […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Bartolo Colon, Fans, Gio Gonzalez, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman Well, that’s better. Steven Matz was superb, watching a Chris Carter home run in the first and then allowing next to nothing after that. The Mets, meanwhile, didn’t exactly light up Wily Peralta, but they did enough to win and chase the blues away, at least for a night. We’ll return to those blues in a minute. (Of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Wily Peralta One of the first things we learn as kids is that you can’t win ’em all. We know this, and when we’re disappointed to realize it really is true, we remind ourselves that it wouldn’t actually be fun to win ’em all. From a fan’s perspective, rooting for a team on a crazy roll isn’t really […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Bochy, Fans, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard On February 17 we lost not one but two Mets. There was no shortage of farewells for Tony Phillips, who died in Scottsdale, Ariz., at 56. And that was to be expected — Phillips racked up 2,023 hits over an 18-year career. Brock Pemberton was the other Met who died on Feb. 17. His death at 62 in Ardmore, Okla., went largely […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brock Pemberton, Fans, Farewells, Moment of Silence, Tony Phillips |
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