 
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. |
The Mets won a game with me recapping, so I guess I can stay! So can Steven Matz, who rebounded rather nicely from a horror show of a beginning to his 2016 season. Matz’s Sunday outing began with disquieting similarities to Matt Harvey‘s start on Saturday: he was cruising along but telegraphing his off-speed stuff, and you […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Young Pitching The night started with 42s everywhere and ended with a 7 in your scorebook. I couldn’t miss the former on Jackie Robinson Day, but had to look up the latter, as sensory overload must have gotten to me, sending this correspondent nodding off to dreamland as the bottom of the eighth commenced. The last thing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Phillips, Cliff Lee, Collin Cowgill, Commercials, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Expos, Grady Sizemore, Indians, Jackie Robinson, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Juan Uribe, Keith Hernandez, Longevity, Marlon Byrd, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Nolan Ryan, Ron Hodges, Socks, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets won their Home Opener on Friday in what we might refer to as Methodical fashion, steadily dismantling an opponent seemingly incapable of keeping up with them across a given nine-inning period. They hit when they had to, they fielded as needed, they pitched above industry standards and they played Philadelphia. Of such ingredients, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, Agita, Chicken Molo Soup, Dan Warthen, Infield Fly Rule, Jacob deGrom, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Conforto, Phillies, Ray Ramirez, Shannon Forde, Todd Hundley Daniel Murphy made an error. You probably noticed. Murph’s error came in a house-of-horrors eighth inning at Citi Field, a frame that’s an excellent candidate to take up residence in the recesses of your brain, to be hauled out and fumed over at future 3 AMs. But Murph wasn’t the only thing going bump in the night on what became a Halloween […] 126 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, 2015 World Series, Bad Fans, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Disasters, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Royals, Terry Collins, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes For consistency’s sake, we shall continue to refer to the state of affairs in which we’ve been thoroughly immersed as a pennant race, even if ours is the only team any longer racing. Mathematical niceties demand we maintain on our faces an expression of severe purposefulness when the subjects of games ahead and games remaining arise. […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Black Cat, Bryce Harper, Clint Robinson, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Matt Williams, Michael Conforto, Pennant Race, Ron Swoboda, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes There has to be some Mets fan out there who was called away during the bottom of the fifth and then had something to do in the top of the ninth. If so, sorry man — because the rest of Monday night’s game was about as snoozy as it gets. There’s something to be said for a lack […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jeff Francoeur, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto The good: A night after making solid contact but coming up short, Michael Conforto showed why he merits all the excitement, mashing a rising line drive off Charlie Morton that hissed over the fence above the Mo’s Zone. (Not sure it’s still called that; quite sure I don’t care.) That tied the game at 3 and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Davidson, Charlie Morton, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes After I got home and watched the replay, Michael Conforto’s one-on, two-out, ninth-inning drive to left-center proved ordinary. It was a deep fly ball but quite catchable, and sure enough Andrew McCutchen caught it to send Friday’s Mets-Pirates game to the tenth inning, knotted at one. From Row 21 of Section 109, however, it looked perfect. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Arnold Hano, Bartolo Colon, Batting Practice, Bobby Parnell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Frustration, J.A. Happ, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Leo Durocher, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Skid Rowe, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins, Tim McCarver, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes It should be said that for the first eight innings that was a dull, lousy game. Seriously. It was like soccer — no action but solo homers, with the Rays seemingly hellbound to one-up us in the Department of Dingers. Grady Sizemore homered (and later took a cheapie away from Wilmer Flores), Juan Uribe matched him, […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Guyer, Juan Uribe, Michael Conforto, Wilmer Flores “Essentially, though, these were young men, seizing the opportunity to make the careers all normal ball players yearn for — victory, earning power, fame, respect. They were no different from the dozens of other young clubs that had suddenly found themselves, all through baseball history, in some dramatic season. The comic origins of the name […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2015 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, First Place, Leonard Koppett, Michael Conforto, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes |
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