My usual approach to frustrating losses is to recap them as quickly as possible and have faith that the sun rising again will bring a little optimism back with it. But sometimes I can’t bring myself to do that and opt for a different strategy, which is basically to go to bed and hope it […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Booing, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Garrett Richards, Jerry Blevins It isn’t a beautiful night at normally beautiful Wrigley Field, as the Mets have fallen further behind the Chicago Cubs, and now manager Luis Rojas comes out of the dugout to have a word with home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman, apparently ready to make a change to his lineup. After conferring with Dreckman, Luis walks […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Cold, David Peterson, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Gil Hodges, J.D. Davis, Luis Guillorme, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Radio, Redeeming Features, Team History, Wrigley Field You can’t talk about Sunday’s 2-1 Mets win at Coors Field without acknowledging the run the Mets strung together in the second inning, built on a Pete Alonso single, a Michael Conforto double and well-placed Jeff McNeil groundout. You can’t talk about the Mets taking their three-game series without taking note of J.D. Davis’s bat […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caught Stealing, Coors Field, Defense, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Juan Lagares's Glove, Kelly Stinnett, Kickball, Marcus Stroman, Omir Santos, One-Run Victories, PItching Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Coors Field, Discontent, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Gary DiSarcina, German Marquez, Jacob deGrom, Jonathan Villar, Rockies, Rule Changes, Strikeouts I was uneasy about Wednesday night, as if the shadow of the past was reaching out for the Mets. It started with news that Jed Lowrie is alive and well and back in Oakland, perfectly ambulatory and hitting home runs now that his knee has been surgically repaired. It turns out, in whatever the opposite […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Hope, James McCann, Jed Lowrie, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler Multiple sources are reporting the Mets and Francisco Lindor have agreed on a ten-year extension worth $341 million, meaning the all-world shortstop will remain in orange, blue and occasionally black through 2031, or Steve Cohen will be paying him off handsomely to go away after a while. Just floating the worst-case scenario to ensure it never […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2031 Mets, Contract Extensions, Francisco Lindor, Opening Day, Steve Cohen It’s a world that could use Francisco Lindor, a guy called Mr. Smile. It’s a world that could use a reason to smile. From our parochial perspective, it’s a world that could use Mr. Smile ceremonially slipping into Mets jersey No. 12 and smiling like crazy as flashes pop inside whichever title-sponsored club remains as […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Bradford William Davis, Carlos Carrasco, Compartmentmalization, Francisco Lindor, Photo Ops, Sandy Alderson, Trades, Zoom You remember where you were for the truly big trades that reorder a franchise, the ones that you know are lines between before and after. The winter day when I saw in the newspaper that Gary Carter, the ebullient yet tough-as-nails All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos, was coming to the Mets. The summer afternoon spent eyeing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Hope, Indians, Isaiah Greene, Josh Wolf, Ownership, Steve Cohen, Trades |
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