 
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. |
OK, lemme see if I got all this. You want the pair of Slugger Milestones — the 100th RBI and the 30th homer, wrap them separately. Yeah, those’ll stay cold. They’re Polar. You want the Speedy Duo with the Double Steal, the back half being the steal of home. You got it. We keep that on […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Brett Baty, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Darin Ruf, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joely Rodriguez, Keith Hernandez, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Pinch-Running, Regional Cuisine, Starling Marte, Stealing Home, Trevor May, Tyler Naquin OK, look: That was a pretty great ballgame. Two aces squared off — Max Fried and Jacob deGrom — and they were both pretty damn good. But the enemy offenses found the smallest of holes in their defenses. For deGrom, it was a lone inning where his slider was disobedient, refusing to be as sharp as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Francisco Lindor, Kenley Jansen, Mark Canha, Max Fried, Michael Harris II, Pete Alonso, Vaughn Grissom Some days this year as a Mets fan, if you’re lucky (which you are if you’re a Mets fan this year), you feel a little like Tommy Flanagan — pronounced fluh-NAIG-un — Jon Lovitz’s truth-stretching character whose Saturday Night Live catchphrase “that’s the ticket” had the country in stitches for about a year in the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Almost Too Good to Be True, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, Jon Lovitz, Liz Callaway, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tyler Naquin The Mets won a quiet, even slightly dull game against the Reds … with the lack of excitement counting as a good thing. Carlos Carrasco was terrific until he found his tank on E. Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil homered. Darin Ruf collected two hits, one against a pitcher from the side he’s not supposed to […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, Darin Ruf, Francisco Lindor, Jeff Fraley, Jeff McNeil, Mike Minor, Mychal Givens, Reds So far — which, I’ll admit right off the bat, is a necessary qualifier — this is one of the stranger successful Met seasons I can remember. After sweeping a split doubleheader from the Braves — no burying the lead in this recap — the Mets are 30 games over .500 for the first time since […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jake Odorizzi, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Tomas Nido, Trevor May, Yoan Lopez Jacob deGrom returned, as promised, and was more or less as we remembered — he hit 102 on the D.C. gun, looked like his old lanky and deadly self, and befuddled various Nationals with most of his arsenal. The lone blemish came in the fourth, when deGrom’s location eluded him and Victor Robles and Luis […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Cory Abbott, Darin Ruf, David Peterson, Farewells, Francisco Lindor, Ghosts, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Joey Lucchesi, Joey Meneses, Josh Bell, Juan Soto, Kramer Robertson, Lefties, Luis Garcia, Mychal Givens, Nationals, Sam Clay, Stephen Nogosek, Steve Cohen, Thomas Szapucki, Trade Deadline, Trades, Yadiel Hernandez, Yoan Lopez Back in the second game of the season, the Mets faced the Nats in D.C. behind Max Scherzer, who was making his debut in orange and blue. (Scherzer followed Tylor Megill, the obvious pick for Opening Day starter.) It didn’t go well for Nats starter Josiah Gray, who was driven from the mound in the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Steve Cishek A funny thing happened midway through the Mets’ laugher of a victory over the Marlins. The Mets were leading 7-1 at the halfway point of the game, having undressed poor Pablo Lopez in Soilmaster Stadium, and every hitter was on point, from Francisco Lindor continuing to beat all available Marlins like a drum to Patrick Mazeika […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | bad, Don Mattingly, Francisco Lindor, Joey Wendle, Marlins, Pablo Lopez, Soilmaster Stadium, Taijuan Walker I’ll take two wins in three games, even if the price is one loss in the middle. Not that that’s how series of baseball games work, exactly, but that is how the Mets-Braves to-do went down. We won Monday. They won Tuesday. We won Wednesday. That’s math as good as it gets when you don’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Harrelson, Chris Bassitt, Dom Smith, Dreams, Drew Smith, Droughts, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Series Win, Team History, Tommy Hunter The Mets, wearing blue, beat the Reds, wearing red and white, by a score of 7-4 on July 4th, and what could be better than that? OK, both teams were wearing god-awful hats from which independence should have been declared, and the Reds continue to ruin their perfectly good uniforms with a black drop shadow that […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Brandon Drury, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Hunter Greene, Matt Reynolds, Reds, Taijuan Walker |
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