A pretty good baseball team soundly defeated another pretty good baseball team on Friday night in a corner of the country far from the one where I struggled to stay awake to witness the entirety of the contest. By drifting off as I tend to when baseball games begin inconveniently late where I am, I […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Late Night West Coast Games, Mariners, Naps, Shutouts Well, at least this time Mets pitchers didn’t walk anybody. Luis Severino wasn’t giving out free passes Tuesday night in San Francisco, and for four innings he wasn’t let any Giant earn his way onto the bases either. But the well ran dry in the fifth as lousy sequencing and buzzards’ luck combined to turn a […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, Logan Webb, Luis Severino A late night West Coast game is a late night West Coast game under any guise, whether the coast is relatively ballpark-adjacent or an entire state over. Arizona’s oceanic only in that it chooses to not spring its clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, meaning that for all intents and purposes from a New Yorker’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Chafin, Brett Baty, Chase Field, Christian Walker, Citi Kids, Comebacks, David Robertson, Desert, Diamondbacks, Dillon Gee, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Late Night West Coast Games, Mark Canha, Oasis, Tommy Henry, Triples “Do you have any other ideas? It’s getting late.” 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Drew Smith, Dustin May, Late Night West Coast Games, Story Conferences Chris Bassitt nailed the ethic of the 2022 New York Mets so well so early that his comments following the third game of the season became the club’s credo, not to mention the soundtrack for commercials shown roughly every half-inning on SNY: “I don’t care who you are, I’m comin’ after you […] we’re just […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Grind, Late Night West Coast Games, Pete Alonso Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen “A long flight across the night? You know why late flights are good? Because we cease to be earthbound and burdened with practicality. Ask the important question. Talk about the idea nobody has thought about yet. Put it in a different way.” That was Jed Bartlet aboard Air Force One, somewhere over America, sometime late at […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | (Not) Phone Company Park, 2002 Mets, Falls From Grace, Field Of Dreams, Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, The West Wing Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Well, at least the pig exited covered with lipstick. The Mets fell behind 4-0 against a scintillating Yu Darvish on a night when Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff, kept getting into trouble of his own making, and had very little in terms of bullpen and bench behind him – a situation that led to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Billy McKinney, Disappointment, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Ha-Seong Kim, James McCann, Jurickson Profar, Kevin Pillar, Late Night West Coast Games, Luis Rojas, Managers, Manny Machado, Mark Melancon, Mason Williams, Padres, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tim Hill, Tomas Nido, Travis Blankenhorn, Yu Darvish The bane of the East Coast baseball fan, the midweek late night West Coast start time, had avoided our drowsy chaperoning for more than five months, but every season will eventually find a reason to literally keep you awake when you should probably go to sleep. Maybe […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Corey Oswalt, Eric Hanhold, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas, Late Night West Coast Games, Most Mets in One Season, Rich Hill, Team History |
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