So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books The Mets followed two unlikely good nights in which they got lousy, abbreviated starts but hit and relieved their way out of the mess with a thoroughly bad one: no hitting, no relief, and no help on the scoreboard. None of which is ever good, all of which is really bad when the season’s down […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Franklyn Kilome, Losses, Roger Angell, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier A laugher is always welcome as a team trudges through the long march of a baseball season — and, as it turns out, as it sprints through an unexpectedly curtailed one. And a laugher is particularly welcome when that team has recently made you wonder if it will ever play sound baseball again. The Mets, after […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Franklyn Kilome, Logan Forsythe, Marlins, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano This season, however it turns out, whether it turns out, will probably be remembered for other storylines, but churning beneath the surface of Mets Baseball 2020 is the churn itself. Have you noticed just how many players we’re going through a mere sixteen games in? When last season ended, the all-time Met count was up […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alternate Site, Andres Gimenez, Bill Sudakis, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Formal Introductions, Franklyn Kilome, Hunter Strickland, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Jimmie Schaffer, Lenny Harris, Met Debuts, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Milestone Mets, Moises Alou, Pete Smith, Phil Mankowski, Randy Milligan, Rey Sanchez, Rick Porcello, Ryan Cordell, Scott Hairston, Team History, The Twilight Zone, Tyler Bashlor The Mets, having played interminable games wrecked by terrible relief pitching, at least found a new formula for a loss Saturday night — bad starting pitching coupled with a lack of offense when desperately needed. Michael Wacha gave up a two-run homer to the increasingly unbearable Marcell Ozuna in the first, then surrendered three straight two-out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Franklyn Kilome, Losses Upon Losses Upon Losses, Nostalgia, Pete Alonso On Friday, in rapid succession, the Mets lost an interesting player and an interesting ballgame. The player, of course, was Asdrubal Cabrera, now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. More on him in a bit. The ballgame, hmm. It wasn’t exactly a showcase for baseball, as at times neither team looked like it had any idea what […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Freese, Franklyn Kilome, Jason Vargas, Phillies, Pirates, Seth Lugo, Tim Peterson, Trades |
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