Yes, Ramon De Jesus’s umpire scorecard is going to be a thing to behold. (It’ll show up here if you want to torture yourself.) The most egregious missed call was, rather obviously, the ball four on Francisco Alvarez that was called strike three, turning a bases-loaded situation for the Mets into the end of an […]
 
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. |
 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Johnson, Alex Young, Anxiety, Brewers, Bryce Turang, Danny Young, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Ramon De Jesus, Rhys Hoskins, Sean Manaea, Umpiring, Wild Card By defeating Philadelphia on Saturday at Citi Field, the Mets elevated their win total to 86 while keeping their loss total at 69. Those are numbers a Mets fan likes to stare at as a playoff pursuit approaches its final turn. Invoking the two world championships in franchise history as a useful omen in the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Complete Wins, Echoes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Omens, Sean Manaea, Trust I can feel it coming. Maybe it’ll be this year, or in five or in 10, but it’s a when and not an if: My physician will settle himself or herself on a stool, make sure I’m paying attention, and say the inevitable words. Mr. Fry, you need to stop watching baseball. There will be alternatives offered: […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luis Severino, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reed Garrett, Taijuan Walker, Trea Turner Agee and Aspromonte. Alfonzo and Agbayani. Alou (Moises) and Anderson (Marlon). The possibility that two Mets whose last names began with an ‘A’ could each produce an HR in the same game has intermittently existed over the decades. I have confirmed Bob Aspromonte and Tommie Agee indeed went deep in tandem on May 18, 1971, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alphabetical Order, Arizona, Atlanta, Benny Agbayani, Bob Aspromonte, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Pete Alonso, Rick Aguilera, Team History, Tommie Agee A couple of things I’ve finally figured out about pitchers in recent years of fandom: Their game logs are portraits of ebb and flow, and you assume the worst (or the best) at your peril. Jose Quintana looked like a prime candidate for “I’ll drive that guy to the airport myself” earlier this summer; his last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Buddy Kennedy, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Heartbreak, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Pitchers, Tyrone Taylor, Weston Wilson When they announce the next year’s baseball schedule I take a look, because how can’t you? But after a couple of glances — When’s the home opener? How many times do we go to the West Coast? — I go back to whatever I was doing. The dates are far off, you have no idea […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Alex Young, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Quintana, Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Roger Clemens Baseball, I’ve long insisted, is humanity’s acme of artistic expression. But that’s not to say every game is a work of art. Whatever that was that the Mets and Blue Jays foisted on us tonight would definitely not qualify. It was a mess, with Tylor Megill mowing down anonymous Blue Jay recruits (and a morose-looking Vladimir […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Danny Young, Ed Kranepool, Eddy Alvarez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Jose Butto, Leo Jimenez, Pablo Reyes, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill Take a moment and consider the life of Huascar Brazoban. Not long ago he was stuck on the Marlins, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. offering near-daily examples of being a bad teammate, Skip Schumaker staring out of the dugout like a man who can’t bear to think how long he’ll be on county work release, and the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jake Cronenworth, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Padres, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Reed Garrett, Rene Rivera Three-and-oh? You take. Of course you take. You always take on three-and-oh. Maybe not always always, but when you’re tied in the bottom of the ninth, there’s one out, and what you need more than anything else is a baserunner, you stand and you take. Francisco Alvarez? You take. You’re like two-for-your-last-eighty (actually 12-for-72 entering Monday […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Exceptions, Francisco Alvarez, Kidcaster, King Korn, Kingston Nahm-Korn, Rules, SNY, Walkoffs Aw, I missed a triple? I did. I nodded off in the seventh, shortly after Jose Butto came on in relief of Paul Blackburn, the score at Coors Field knotted at two. That’ll happen with any game that starts any time after 7:10 where I sit; then stretch out; then close my eyes for just […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Catchers Tripling, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, John Stearns, Sleep, Triples |
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