In 1969, 1973, 2000 and 2015, the Mets qualified for the postseason without the benefit of capturing their first game after the All-Star break, thus if you need a little precedent to take the edge off the first game the 2022 Mets played in five days leaving you wondering if they thought Friday night was […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Ledesma, All-Star Break, Armando Benitez, Billy Eppler, Bubba Trammell, Buck Showalter’s Windbreaker, Charlie Puleo, Chasen Bradford, Chris Woodward, Colin Holderman, Daniel Vogelbach, Eric Hosmer, J.C. Martin, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Jose Valentin, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cairo, Nolan Ryan, Old Friends, Passion, Second Half, Second-Half Openers, Team History, Trades, Yu Darvish None of that should have worked. Presented to you is a short sentence in which “that” is carrying a heavy load, referring to two games played over more than nine hours, the first of them featuring an emphatically run-suppressing wind, and the Mets spending both games not so much stumbling as failing to deliver a knockout […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheader Sweeps, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frank Schwindel, J.D. Davis, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Yan Gomes, Yoan Lopez The story before Monday night’s game in Atlanta was discerning what the hell Robinson Cano was doing in a Braves uniform, in the Braves lineup, in the Braves infield. Wasn’t Robinson Cano, having washed out with the San Diego Padres, an El Paso Chihuahua literally the day before? Did the surging Atlanta Braves really need […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Psyche-Outs, Robinson Cano, The Odd Couple You’d prefer a win. No doubt about it, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you’d look at a 1-0 loss and gnash your teeth. The hundredth, you’d gnash a little, then grit them, then take a deep breath, then rub your eyes, then take in the image at the center of the bigger picture. Max Scherzer […] The withstanding has begun. The Mets are 1-0 in the What The Hell Are We Going To Do Now? era. It will last anywhere from six weeks to eight weeks to whenever it actually ends. When you see Max Scherzer glaring from a mound near you, you’ll know it’s over. For a spell on Thursday, it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Bobby Ewing, Chris Bassitt, Colin Holderman, Jeff McNeil, Max Scherzer, Obliques, Pete Alonso, Walkoffs Can the Mets win by seven and have that feel like an afterthought? It turns out they can — if the takeaway from the game isn’t a blast of a homer by Pete Alonso or a hustling triple by happily hale and hearty Brandon Nimmo or a host of hitting to break the second half of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Hope, Hopelessness, Injuries, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pitchers A Sunday doubleheader! Doesn’t that sound great? Not a split doubleheader (which isn’t a doubleheader; it’s just two games in one day). Not an abundance-of-caution seven-inning doubleheader (which would actually be a fourteen-inning doubleheader, but let’s not return there). A real settling in, beginning with a regulation game, pausing for a breather, then continuing with […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Confidence, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Max Scherzer, Off the Base of the Wall, Pete Alonso, Splits, Sunday Doubleheaders You can’t argue with the numbers. I mean you can, because somebody always wants to argue something, but you’d have to dig pretty deep for a debate let alone a dispute when the Mets are steaming along as they have thus far this young season. The Mets have won 16 of their first 23 games, a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, ESPN, Great Starts, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Robinson Cano, Rosters, Series Win, Streaks Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill Pitchers’ duels are one of the earliest tests of budding baseball fandom — dull to the casual observer who wants action and doesn’t get why those around him are oohing and aahing over hitters swinging and missing or just looking flustered at balls zipping from hurlers’ hands to places they weren’t expected to wind up. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Comebacks, Dom Smith, Giovanny Gallegos, Jeff McNeil, Joey Cora, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Miles Mikolas, Pitchers' Duels, Robinson Cano, Trevor May, Tyler O'Neill |
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