 
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. |
Before all the heroics — which we will revel in a couple of paragraphs down, I promise you — the Mets and Nationals played a rather odd baseball game. Max Scherzer pitched six innings, the last of them on fumes, throwing 109 pitches and giving up no runs. Jacob deGrom pitched six innings, the last of them […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Eaton, Adeiny Hechavarria, Bad Relief Pitching, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Met Debuts, Nationals, Rajai Davis, Ryan Blakney, Sean Doolittle, Umpires The Mets have lost on Opening Day three times in this decade: 2011, 2014 and 2016. None of those defeats was pleasant in the moment, but with hindsight we should appreciate that they unfolded as they did. Having proof that Mets can lose on Opening Day keeps […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxieties, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Wilson Ramos At the beginning of the year I meticulously record the Mets in order of appearance, a bit of ceremony that sustains me until everyone from that initial version of the 25-man roster has stepped between the lines. (Met No. 25 usually comes down to the fifth starter, the reliever whose role is least defined, or […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Austin Jackson, Extra Innings, Farce, Jack Reinheimer, Jason Vargas, Jose Lobaton, Jose Reyes, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Paul Sewald I just started reading a book I’ve had around for a while, The Greatest Game Ever Pitched by Jim Kaplan. It’s a deep dive into the legendary sixteen-inning 1-0 duel between Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal in 1963 and wisely includes a statistical section. For frame of reference, I […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Frustration, Gary Johnson, Jacob deGrom, Jose Bautista, Juan Marichal, Madison Bumgarner, Max Scherzer, Midweek Matinees, Ray Stevens, Sandy Koufax, Tony Randazzo, US Open, Warren Spahn Sunday afternoons and Citi Field haven’t gotten along in 2017. Far be it from me to horn in on the middle of their mysterious feud, but sometimes you gotta go where you gotta go, and on this last home Sunday afternoon of the 2017 season, I went to Citi Field. It was not like asking […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Billy Joel, Bobby Darin, Dominic Smith, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Hansel Robles, Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Phil Evans, Quality Starts, Rafael Santana, Sundays, Victor Robles I heard myself stick up for Kenny Rogers and Timo Perez the other night. Yeah, they left their fingerprints all over two of the most notorious moments in Mets postseason history, but, I said, the Mets wouldn’t have gotten as far as they did without them. Being so generous of spirit, you’d figure I’d apply the […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, Daniel Murphy, Errors, Kenny Rogers, Max Scherzer, Selective Granular Memory, Timo Perez I took strange comfort in Daniel Murphy’s first-inning grand slam off Zack Wheeler Sunday night. Very strange, admittedly, but comfort nonetheless from looking at it this way: What’s the worst Daniel Murphy can do to the Mets with a given swing? He can hit a grand slam. Well, he already did that. That’s a 4-0 hole courtesy of […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Slumps, Stupid Nationals, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler I’ve got one word for Daniel Murphy, and it’s not because he’s the brother of either of my parents, because he’s not. The word is “Uncle.” I’ll say it again: Uncle, as in stop it, stop it, stop it. I give. You’re the man. You never should have been allowed to escape to Washington. You should’ve been […] 54 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Newhart, Daniel Murphy, hindsight, Max Scherzer, My Cousin Vinny, Skid Rowe I particularly liked the part where Bryce Harper struck out. That I have to be more specific than that I also particularly like. I’m referring to the top of the fourth, one out, nobody on, the Mets ahead of the Nationals, 2-0. Noah Syndergaard is one-two on the consensus best player in the National League and…frozen. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Max Scherzer, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard Back in June, Emily and I decided that a lovely summer night would be made even better by our attending a ballgame. So we did … and watched the Mets get no-hit by Chris Heston and the San Francisco Giants. I grumbled and groaned for competitive and aesthetic reasons. The competitive reasons for not wanting my […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Billy Beane, Chris Heston, Dodgers, Max Scherzer, Nationals, No-Hitters, Panic City |
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