Lucas Duda’s second home run had just left the building and perhaps the solar system. The Mets’ seventh run of the evening was crossing the plate, their lead over the Pirates was reaching three and it was only the fifth inning. My good friend Jeff, once he was done jumping up and down like the […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dreamy Offensive Onslaughts, Hideous T-Shirts, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Paul Sewald You so knew this was coming, you could’ve baked a cake. The Mets were leading, but they could’ve been leading by more. Five batters in, you realized the Mets were bracing you for what lied ahead three-plus hours later. With two out in the top of the first, Jay Bruce homered. Mets up, 1-0. Great. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew McCutchen, Cake, Gerrit Cole, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, John Jaso, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Neil Ramirez, Pirates, PNC Park, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Pill, Zack Wheeler “All right, time for bed.” 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Incomplete Games, Jacob deGrom, Lucas Duda, Neil Walker, Pitch Counts, Tyler Pill In the aftermath of the Mets’ sixth consecutive loss, dropped at Arizona Tuesday night by a final of 5-4, I heard Terry Collins reason away something that went wrong by saying, “That’s just part of the game.” I forget what the question was, but I recognized the response. “That’s just part of the game” is […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Fatalism, Fernando Rodney, Lucas Duda, Neil Ramirez, Paul Goldschmidt, Terry Collins, Tommy Milone, Yasmany Tomas Which Met crisis was the overriding one Friday night? It’s hard to keep them straight. Harking all the way back to April 27, Noah Syndergaard not being able to lift his arm was the worst possible news. Then it was Yoenis Cespedes limping into second hours later. Oh wait — Syndergaard grabbed something and left […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Injuries, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker “Just brushed my elbow up against the baserunner, Ray. I think I’ll be OK.” “My wrist and the guy’s bat made contact, Ray. No biggie.” “Something with my knee, Ray. Feels a little off, but […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Kelvim Escobar, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Ray Ramirez, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes You can’t win them all? Seriously? That’s a thing? That’s a thing. It may be an unwritten rule, but it appears inviolable. Despite five consecutive days during which it felt as if the Mets would never lose again, they lost on Friday night. The defeat unleashed a sensation previously experienced less than a week before, yet […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Failure to Win Them All, Fingernails, Josh Edgin, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard The Mets are 84-74. They have never, in the history of the franchise, been 84-74 before. There is no inherent significance to having achieved this statistical milestone. It’s simply something I deduced after staring at their record for a moment. To have ever been 84-74, the Mets would have — in the segments of their past […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curt Gowdy, Endings, Jay Bruce, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Records, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes The standings do not recognize moral victories. A 2-0 perfect game counts the same as some hideous crapfest against a second-division opponent that you win 9-6 despite walking the ballpark. The same goes for losses — the manager turning over the buffet after sending the backup catcher to the mound doesn’t mean the defeat was hideous enough to cost […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gavin Cecchini, Lucas Duda, Michael Mariot, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Asdrubal knew it was OUTTA HERE! OUTTA HERE! as soon as he hit it. Eleven innings played. Twenty-seven home players used. Two-hundred fourteen home pitches thrown. Two-hundred sixty-three minutes consumed. Two arms raised skyward. One-hundred eighty emotional degrees traversed. And, in the final scene, the Three Amigos riding off into the sunrise, having rescued […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Basket of Deployables, Brandon Nimmo, Chumbawamba, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Magical Thinking, Milestones, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, The Three Amigos, Yoenis Cespedes |
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