Adam Hamari, a relative stranger to our ongoing narrative since his arrival as a major league umpire in 2013, is now seared into our consciousness as a) the arbiter who arbitrarily deprived 42,000 ticketholders of the opportunity to watch and cheer Noah Syndergaard, premier starting pitcher for the New York Mets, and b) enabler of […]
 
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. |
 37 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, Adam Hamari, Angel Hernandez, Chase Utley, Davey Johnson, Gary Carter, Jesse Orosco, Memory, Noah Syndergaard, Old Timers Day, Travesty Greg and I divvy up recap duties by series — most often one series at a time, sometimes two or three. Usually we start by comparing schedules and subtracting evenings on which the world will interfere with baseball-centric life. Sometimes we put our hands up for a game because we’ll be in attendance. And sometimes there are other factors. […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Presley, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera 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 There are moments when you sense things can’t get any better for your team. Those are moments that are both gratifying and terrifying. Peak Mets, to dabble in the fashionable vernacular, may have been achieved early this past week. Bartolo Colon had homered on Saturday, his accomplishment stayed the toast of the town well into Monday. […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Charlie Blackmon, Coors Field, Jerry Blevins, Jon Gray, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Network, Noah Syndergaard, Superstition Honestly, even without considering the lateness of the hour, a big picture of Noah Syndergaard would be more eloquent than whatever I’ll be able to come up with. Because sometimes Syndergaard defies description. Wednesday night’s pitching line might not look like ace-level Syndergaard — the swing-and-a-miss stuff wasn’t quite there — but that’s deceptive. Syndergaard was hitting 100 […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Kenta Maeda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting One of the first things we learn as kids is that you can’t win ’em all. We know this, and when we’re disappointed to realize it really is true, we remind ourselves that it wouldn’t actually be fun to win ’em all. From a fan’s perspective, rooting for a team on a crazy roll isn’t really […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Bochy, Fans, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard You have to love a team whose prospective greatest-hitting homegrown player ever has just tied an offensive record set by somebody from its toddler stages. What am I saying? You already do. Toward the end of a week defined by a streak, if not streakiness, we learned that when Michael Conforto doubled in the second inning at […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bryce Harper, Gnomes, Hockey, Jacob deGrom, Joe Christopher, McFadden's, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Noah Syndergaard, Potential, Rene Rivera, Team History Everything is a small sample size if you want it to be. Nothing proves anything until it does. After 20 games of 2015, when the Mets were 15-5 and led the last-place Nationals by eight lengths, it indicated they were gonna run away with the National League East — but it proved nothing. After 102 […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Large Enough Sample Sizes, Leading Indicators, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud
100 mph fastball, 95 mph slider, 91 mph change. Syndergaard is what you’d get if your brother cheated making a pitcher in a videogame. #mets — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) April 18, 2016 That was me early in tonight’s game while I watched Noah Syndergaard mow down Phillies with his ludicrously unfair arsenal of pitches. I […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Jerad Eickhoff, Lucas Duda, Mets Third Basemen, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies If it can be about me for a moment, I’d like to recap a win one of these nights. Now that we have that out of the way, let’s talk about Noah Syndergaard. Late last year I started telling anyone who’d listen that I thought he could wind up as the best of the Mets’ fabulous five, which was […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dee Gordon, Jose Fernandez, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Noah Syndergaard |
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