 
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. |
The Mets and the Nats, sheesh. I guess it proves that for every Nieuwenhuis there’s a Suzuki. And for the critical stretches of Monday night’s mildly bonkers game, it wasn’t clear whether the compass was going to wind up pointing to N or S. And I missed the first five innings! I mean, so sue me […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  CJ Abrams, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Hunter Harvey, Ildemaro Vargas, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, James Wood, Jose Iglesias, Mackenzie Gore, Nationals, Reed Garrett, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor They’re probably not this good, are they? How could they be? Fifteen wins in nineteen games seems to give us all the answer we need, a stretch that’s unfurled since their last pairing of consecutive losses, not to mention the active streak of three victories during which the most recent ascension or explosion feels it […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adrian Houser, Ben Gamel, Emotional Cost Certainty, Francisco Alvarez, Harrison Bader, Michael Mays, Sean Manaea, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep, Ty Adcock, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Mays I stopped attending Subway Series games years ago because they’re like Thanksgiving dinners where every single uncle and cousin you dislike RSVPs that they’ll show up drunk and eager to talk politics. No thanks — I’ll catch these from my couch, where any woofing mookdom can be addressed as an internal affair. That part’s predictable; the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen, Carlos Mendoza, Danny Young, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Gerrit Cole, Harrison Bader, J.D. Davis, Mark Vientos, Reed Garrett, Subway Series, Yankee, Yankees “Solstice schmolstice,” they might say in the bleachers at Wrigley Field, where the exact position of the sun doesn’t matter as long as it’s out somewhere. They have their new tradition of building a cup snake that wends all the way to Lake Michigan, perhaps Michigan itself, and they have their old tradition of throwing […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, J.D. Martinez, Joe Hudson, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Steve Gelbs, Summer, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays, Wrigley Field Here’s a list of what I did Thursday during our week of vacation on Long Beach Island: bike ride That’s a pretty damn good day, one I felt absurdly lucky to get to enjoy. The ballgame was the last couple of innings of the Giants and the Cardinals at Birmingham’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Joe Hudson, Jose Iglesias, Laughers, Luis Torrens, Shota Imanaga, Tomas Nido, Wrigley Field I didn’t expect a giddy stretch related to the 2024 Mets, and yet here we are. I was playing mini-golf and eating ice cream, meaning I was late to my assigned duties (sorry not sorry) and yet was only mildly surprised to find it was Forces of Good 7, Defending But Currently Not So Hot World […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Knizner, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Grimace, Jon Gray, Laughers, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Steve Gelbs, Winning Streaks So the Mets came home fresh off a heady, game-saving final play by Luis Torrens … and looked pretty much like the Mets we increasingly have no interest in watching. Francisco Alvarez returned from the IL, which seemed heartening, and Tylor Megill pitched well in the early innings against the Marlins, looking like a young hurler […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryan De La Cruz, Francisco Alvarez, Harrison Bader, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Mark Vientos, Marlins, Tylor Megill For Saturday, it will be City Connects getting our attention. On Friday, it was what we might quaintly refer to as a national telecast. Or should we say a globally available stream? Whatever it is called, it was Cardinals at Mets on Apple TV+, which meant the visuals (even if you took advantage of the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apple TV+, Billy Joel, Bothsidesism, Cardinals, Catchers, City Connect, Francisco Alvarez, Identity, Jerry Grote, Joni Mitchell, Jose Butto, Tomas Nido, Zack Short What do you suppose those 11 Mets and 13 Dodgers who were left on base Saturday did to amuse themselves while a baseball game was proceeding to nifty conclusion without them? Given what a beautiful day it appeared to be in Chavez Ravine, my guess is they broke out the wicker baskets and treated themselves […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adonis Medina, Baseball Porn, Dodgers, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jose Butto, LOBs, Michael Tonkin, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Tension, Tomas Nido, Whitey Herzog We could talk about Sean Manaea looking superb in a way that no Met starter looked against the Brewers, pitching aggressively and keeping the Tigers bothered and bewildered for six innings, with the lone blemish a sharp Andy Ibanez single to left with two out in the fifth — though that situation happily healed itself […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Carson Kelly, Disasters, Extra Innings, Francisco Alvarez, Joey Wendle, Michael Tonkin, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tigers |
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