Intrigue lurked here and there among the Mets and Cardinals for seven innings Sunday afternoon. So, frankly, did boredom. As a baseball fan, you don’t want to dismiss a game with little scoring as boring; as a baseball fan, you are conditioned to appreciate tautness and tension, and there was a little much action between […]
 
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. |
“Don’t you just love it when you come back from the bathroom and find your food waiting for you?” Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) asks Vincent Vega (John Travolta) over dinner at Jackrabbit Slim’s in Pulp Fiction, just as she has indeed returned from (ahem) powdering her nose to find the “bloody” Durward Kirby Burger she […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, Bob Murphy, Bunting, Distinctive Scores, Harrison Bader, Jack Fisher, Jeff McNeil, Pirates, Pulp Fiction, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium, the immortal Chris Majkowski, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Stargell The Mets are suddenly good. Well, not good exactly. Statistically speaking, they’re average. But in the vibes column — which you won’t find in your paper, on MLB.com or Baseball Reference, so don’t look for it — the Mets are killing it. They rose to average statistically and red hot vibe-istically by beating the Pirates in an […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Adrian Houser, Andrew McCutchen, Aroldis Chapman, Bud Selig, Butch Huskey, Connor Joe, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Edwin Moscoso, Harrison Bader, Jackie Robinson, Pirates, Rachel Robinson, Toby Borland I wish I had brought some string with me. An enormous spool of string. Had I, I could have offered some to each player I saw in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room Sunday morning and asked him to align himself just so in order to form the most Amazin’ live-action Immaculate Grid you could […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Doc Gooden, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Gary Carter, Harrison Bader, Jose Butto, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Torrez, Rafael Santana, Rain Delays, Retired Numbers, Roger McDowell, Royals, Teammates, Uniform Numbers When your team’s bad you spend a lot of time fuming about how it should be made good. This guy who’s failed too often needs to lose his job to this guy who hasn’t failed yet, any fool can see the lineup should be revamped so it works like this, etc. I’m not generally one for […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Witt Jr., Brett Baty, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jeff McNeil, Luis Severino, Michael Wacha, Out, Pete Alonso, Royals, The Baseball Gods It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses. Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist. Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Harrison Bader, Julio Teheran, Omar Narvaez, Pete Alonso, Raisel Iglesias, Reynaldo Lopez, Tommy Milone “What a break,” the player said. “Wow! This is great. I can hardly believe it. Imagine going to a club like the Phillies. I feel like I’ve been born again.” The player was Buddy Harrelson, on the occasion of his trade from the Mets in Spring Training 1978. The Mets were founded in 1962 and were […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Gonzalez, Adrian Houser, Bud Harrelson, Buddy Harrelson, Dom Smith, Harrison Bader, Home, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Opening Day, Patches, Sean Manaea, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short I don’t know how much I will miss Luis Guillorme in practice. His production declined precipitously last season and his defense wasn’t the revelation it once was. Yet Luis’s definitive departure from the only team we have ever known him as a part of — the former Met has signed with the Braves, making him, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, An Appreciation, Harrison Bader, Luis Guillorme, Sean Manaea, Utility Infielders |
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