 
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. |
As chroniclers of the Great Mets Fiasco of 2017, we’d be derelict in our duty if we failed to record this sequence for posterity: Hansel Robles, a reliever whose photo may actually appear next to the word “streaky” in baseball-centric dictionaries, faces Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt leading off the bottom of the eighth in a 1-1 game. […]  Comments closed | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Descalso, Hansel Robles, Jeff Mathis, Josh Edgin, Paul Goldschmidt, Yasmany Tomas A grand slam? The Marlins thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam? Hey, Marlins, I got a team I wanna introduce you to: the Phillies. The Phillies thought they were gonna beat the Mets with a grand slam. Hey, Phillies, tell the Marlins how that worked out. Yeah, I thought so. The Phillies […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Hernandez, Brett Gardner, Brian Johnson, Chipper Jones, Darren Daulton, Ernest Riles, Grand Slams, Hansel Robles, Hubie Brooks, Jason Thompson, Jay Bruce, Jody Davis, Maikel Franco, Marathons, Marcell Ozuna, Marlins, Melvin Nieves, Michael Conforto, Mike Vail, Neil Walker, Opponent Grand Slams in Mets Wins, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, Ryan Jackson, Team History, Terry Puhl, Todd Helton, Tom Goodwin, Travis d'Arnaud, Vic Davalillo, Willie Stargell, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks, Yoenis Cespedes During the first game Wednesday, the Mets scored practically at will. Michael Conforto, newly anointed leadoff hitter for however long Terry Collins can resist sitting him, was a perfect fit at the top of the order, singling in the first, homering in the third. Yoenis Cespedes was Yoenis Cespedes for a second consecutive night. Asdrubal Cabrera was […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Emotional Abyss, Hansel Robles, Michael Conforto, Relief Pitching, Ryan Howard, Winning Streak, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It’s an unfair game. That’s the best-known saying of one of Western thought’s foremost philosophers, the esteemed R. Edwin Kanehl. For those 21 words contain a multitude. You can use them as a lens for examining the lives of kings and commoners, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Edubray Ramos, Hansel Robles, Howie Kendrick, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Rod Kanehl If you were looking for four hours that would renew your faith in the Mets, well, boy did you pick the wrong night. First the Mets played a thoroughly inept game against the Yankees, one in which a) they were atrocious once more with runners in scoring position; b) Steven Matz underpitched Chad Green to put them in an inescapably […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, Injuries, Mark Teixeira, Steven Matz, Yoenis Cespedes You don’t want to have to win a game by using five relievers to cover 8.2 innings, but you surely don’t want to lose a game under those circumstances. They were unavoidable Wednesday night once Bartolo Colon was forced to leave in deference to a liner off his right thumb from Royals leadoff hitter Whit […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Bullpen, Dilemmas, Dillon Gee, Erik Goeddel, Field Of Dreams, Hansel Robles, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Royals Long night, short turnaround. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off, shall we? In the bottom of the fifth, Steven Matz did something strange: he got his helmet and bat and headed for the on-deck circle, apparently all-business. Which was fine, except his spot in the order wasn’t up — it was several batters away. He wasn’t even close. Matz […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Tyler Saladino “I’ll probably only make it for one more batter,” the sleepy fan said to himself as Hansel Robles battled Trayce Thompson with two out in the bottom of the ninth, the Mets and Dodgers tied at two. “I don’t think I’ll make it to extra innings.” Funny how sometimes things just take care of themselves. The […] The team that was a surefire bet to cruise to another division title got off to a rocky start. But then they began to right the ship, they had their pitching lined up, and once September rolled around, they took dead aim at first place, inching closer and closer day by day until they were […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Dario Alvarez, David Wright, Erik Goeddel, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Michael Stanley Band, Rich Sauveur, September, Yoenis Cespedes Five weeks ago, if the Mets had been down 5-0 I would’ve found something better to do with my time. But that was five weeks ago, and that team that no longer exists. Tonight, when the Mets fell five runs behind, I figured they’d come back and was curious how they’d do it. It’s remarkable — it’s as […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Sean Gilmartin |
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