 
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. |
Spring Training, you gotta stop making real news. Frankie Montas’s lat last week. Nick Madrigal’s shoulder over the weekend. Sean Manaea’s oblique as the Monday surprise du jour. We’re here for bright skies and optimism and megastars presenting vehicles to would-be stars in exchange for jersey numbers. That’s the news we can consume and smile about. All injuries […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  22, Al Leiter, Alexander Canario, Brett Baty, David Wright, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Frankie Montas, Injuries, Jimmy Carter, Juan Soto, Moment of Silence, Nick Madrigal, Presidents, Ray Knight, Retired Numbers, Rituals, Roberta Flack, Sean Manaea, Spring Training Injuries, Team History, Uniform Numbers Ah, the rites of Spring. Two, specifically… 1) The first press availability of the year with players who rate a full-blown sitdown with the assembled St. Lucie media. Francisco Lindor one day, Juan Soto the next, Pete Alonso today. Revelations? They’re thrilled to be back, or here, or back here. Why shouldn’t they be? They’re all […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annual Rituals, Frankie Montas, Injuries, Reassuring Happy Talk, Spring Training, Spring Training Injuries Yes, Ramon De Jesus’s umpire scorecard is going to be a thing to behold. (It’ll show up here if you want to torture yourself.) The most egregious missed call was, rather obviously, the ball four on Francisco Alvarez that was called strike three, turning a bases-loaded situation for the Mets into the end of an […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Johnson, Alex Young, Anxiety, Brewers, Bryce Turang, Danny Young, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Ramon De Jesus, Rhys Hoskins, Sean Manaea, Umpiring, Wild Card A couple of things I’ve finally figured out about pitchers in recent years of fandom: Their game logs are portraits of ebb and flow, and you assume the worst (or the best) at your peril. Jose Quintana looked like a prime candidate for “I’ll drive that guy to the airport myself” earlier this summer; his last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Buddy Kennedy, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Heartbreak, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Pitchers, Tyrone Taylor, Weston Wilson I decided to go into the hot take business on May 30. It wasn’t all that hot a take, actually. What I removed from the oven of projection and prediction seemed pretty obvious and therefore lukewarm as regarded a team with a record of 22-33 and a DFA-bound reliever who had just flung his glove […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Balloon Drops, Bryce Harper, Cal Stevenson, Eras, Freezing Cold Takes, Injuries, Luisangel Acuna, Pillow Screaming, Team History, The West Wing, Winning Records What do you suppose those 11 Mets and 13 Dodgers who were left on base Saturday did to amuse themselves while a baseball game was proceeding to nifty conclusion without them? Given what a beautiful day it appeared to be in Chavez Ravine, my guess is they broke out the wicker baskets and treated themselves […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adonis Medina, Baseball Porn, Dodgers, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jose Butto, LOBs, Michael Tonkin, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Tension, Tomas Nido, Whitey Herzog Spring Training was humming along. Players showed up and pledged to maintain or adjust their career arcs, whichever would help the team most. Prospects were going to make an impression. Youth was going to gain experience. Veterans were already setting examples. The previously ailing were feeling never better. Thievable relievers were working on their pickoff […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Kodai Senga, No News Is Good News, Spring Training, Spring Training Injuries It finally didn’t rain and the Mets finally got to play, and so for your recapper’s final go-round of the season our heroes presented one game that turned into a nail-biter, one Calvinball farce that was pretty entertaining for all its sloppy meaninglessness, a doubleheader sweep that didn’t matter, a depressing thought, and a happy […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bad Relief Pitching, Elbow Soreness, Francisco Alvarez, Injuries, Jeff Passan, Phil Bickford, Phillies, Ron Darling, Steve Gelbs, Tylor Megill White Flight Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Mets for some time now, but the home of the Braves outdid itself Tuesday night, first with a rain delay that didn’t actually feature rain — they watered the goddamn infield when guys could have been playing on it — and then with horrible […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pitchers Baseball’s nothing without poetic license, whether or not Rob Manfred wishes to notarize said document. The Commissioner is intent on engineering a game built for speed. Get it over with already yet seemed the Manfred mandate for Opening Day. Start the pitch timer, throw the ball, quit yer lollygagging. It sounds reasonable in concept. It […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Stallings, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Marlins, Max Scherzer, Omar Narvaez, Opening Day, Pace of Play, Pitch Clock, Sandy Alcantara, Steve Carlton, T#m Gl@v!ne, The Paper Chase, Time of Game, Wacky Races, Yogi Berra |
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