I turned on the Mets game a couple of minutes after my Metro-North train starting trundling south out of Waterbury, Conn., picking up the voices of Keith Raad and Pat McCarthy from distant West Sacramento. I switched trains in Bridgeport as old friend Luis Severino won an extended battle with Brett Baty even as he […]
 
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. |
The first week of baseball is seductive and also a little dangerous: You’re so glad to have baseball back and to resume the rhythms of fandom that you can shrug off the disappointment that comes with every game having a winner and a loser. The first week really does offer participant trophies, and each season […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Astros, Ghosts, Griffin Canning, Howie Rose, Jeremy Pena, Jose Siri, Josh Hader, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Spencer Arrighetti, Yordan Alvarez For those keeping adjustable score of very recent, relatively quiet Met offseason acquisitions at home, you can pencil in the following: Righthanded pitcher Yuhi Sako. A southpaw counterpart named Brandon Waddell. Jared Young, who plays first. Catcher Chris Williams. Righty Griffin Canning, who maddeningly contained Met bats one day last summer, so I can say, “Him I’ve heard of.” If you […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, Alex Reyes, Brandon Waddell, Carlos Beltran, Chris Williams, Culture, Dave Winfield, David Stearns, Gary Carter, Griffin Canning, Howie Rose, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Mike Hampton, Mike Piazza, Offseason Bookkeeping, Perceptions, Pete Alonso, Randy Keisler, Steve Cohen, Team History, Terry Collins, Yuhi Sako More than once this year, I’ve thought to myself that Pete Alonso would probably be more of a hitter if he were less of a teammate. But Alonso isn’t capable of that. He cares about his teammates, about the only organization he’s ever known, and yes, about us lunatics in the stands. He wants to come […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, Brice Turang, Class, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Howie Rose, Jake Bauers, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Jose Quintana, Pete Alonso, Sal Frelick, Starling Marte, Thrills, Tobias Myers, Wild Card These days, you don’t have to be in the New York area — or the outer limits of AM radio range — to keep up with the Mets. You just need an MLB account and a certain amount of cell service. Well, and a little luck. The beginning of the Mets’ game against the Red Sox found […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Giveaways, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, Luis Severino, MLB At Bat, Phil Maton, Red Sox I’d like the bottom of the third inning from Friday night’s game bottled, if you please. Seriously, that was a high ABV brew to settle even the most high-strung Mets fan’s nerves. Down 2-0 against Charlie Morton — one of the few remaining big leaguers with sufficient tenure to have appeared at Shea — the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Duvall, Adam Ottavino, Braves, Charlie Morton, Eric Orze, Francisco Alvarez, Howie Rose, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jose Iglesias, Keith Raad, Lino Urdaneta, Marcell Ozuna, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Wild Card “Why is Howie talking about LBJ? I wonder if that means … oh.” It was quite a way to find out about the latest election-year earthquake, with the news delivered via MLB Audio a second after we tuned in while scooting around midcoast Maine with friends on the final day of this year’s summer residency. Discovering […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Howie Rose, Jake Burger, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Marlins Back in the offseason, my mental calendar had a circle drawn around June 8-9: Mets in London! A trip could be fun, particularly if Emily and I convinced our Phillies-fan friends to join us. That plan got kicked around with vague seriousness for a while, was downgraded to maybe and then died a quiet death before […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, London Series, Pat McCarthy, Phillies, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte We have reached a stop on the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT journey that can’t be appreciated fully if you forget to pack nuance. This season wouldn’t rate as highly as it does with me if there wasn’t more to it than its unfortunate ending. It would likely rate a […] The Mets really could have used another run Saturday. They crossed the plate once in nine innings. Unless their pitchers were crafting a shutout, that wasn’t going to be enough to win their game against the Blue Jays. Collectively, their pitchers held as much fort as they could, giving up only two runs to a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Celebrations, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howard Johnson, Howie Rose, Jay Horwitz, Mets Hall of Fame, One-Run Defeats, Team History |
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