 
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. That, as always, is the big thing. On Monday night they won by clubbing balls into the stratosphere, delivering a 14-run beatdown that turned a 7-2 deficit into a 16-7 rout. Tuesday night was different. The Mets got off to a fast start, with a Yoenis Cespedes homer making the score 2-0 before most of […]  37 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Jeanmarie Gomez, Jeff Francouer, Jeurys Familia, Larry Bowa, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Clippard, Unwritten Rules For whatever reason, that game had loss written all over it the moment Jonathan Schoop hit Noah Syndergaard‘s worst pitch of the night over the fence. The Mets kept whacking away at the Orioles, but Syndergaard was gone (nearly 100 pitches on a soppingly hot night) and the bullpen was doing bullpen things, and you […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Hansel Robles, Noah Syndergaard In the early innings Thursday I tweeted out what I hoped would be reassuring counsel to Mets fans unhappy that we weren’t going to sweep four from the Rockies without a fair amount of work: Noah’s gonna be great, but he’s awfully young and still has some lumps to take. Even Norse gods need to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Young Pitching I no longer remember the exact circumstances, but years ago there was a newspaper story featuring a Yankee fan who didn’t understand why any franchise would adopt “Ya Gotta Believe” (or one of its non-spontaneous, corporate-approved descendants) as a rallying cry. Terrible slogan, she snorted dismissively: “Believe? That’s lame. We know.” That always struck me as a perfect way to describe the two New York fanbases, because strip […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fans, Hope, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tug McGraw Noah Syndergaard had a perfect game going. I wasn’t particularly nervous about it. I figured he was going to get it. When the perfect game was broken up by Will Venable’s leadoff single in the seventh inning, I wasn’t particularly upset about it. I figured he’d just keep going for the win and maybe pitch […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Jenrry Mejia, Noah Syndergaard, Tyler Clippard For the first time in seven years, I’m finding myself more than moderately bothered by the result of a Mets game lost on this late a date on the calendar…an indicator of progress for the franchise, if not for myself. We must be stepping up in class. Get to July 22 of previous seasons — or […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Disappointment, Jordan Zimmermann, Noah Syndergaard, Pennant Race, Richard Nixon, Terry Collins During yet another scintillating replay review Friday night, we learned Keith Hernandez spent part of his All-Star break pulling weeds. Not by himself, mind you. He was assisting Maggie, “the gal that oversees my property,” in getting the job done, which, as Gary Cohen pointed out, was “lovely” of him. It’s lovely, too, to know […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Keith Hernandez, Noah Syndergaard, Offensive Ineptitude, Seinfeld The pitching’s too good to ever get too down. There’s not a Shaun Marcum reclamation project in the bunch, no Chris Capuano dutifully sucking up innings as if that’s the goal of any given game. One start you get Jacob deGrom, who opposing batters can’t hit; next game it’s Noah Syndergaard, who they can’t touch. In […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Friday Night Lights, Hope, Injuries, Mad Men, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz When you can’t hit water even after you fall out of a dinghy, then does it really matter who’s rowing ashore to presumably shut you down? Sure, Clayton Kershaw has been all-world for a half-decade and the Mets traditionally maintain a safe enough distance from the Cy Young and MVP award winner so as to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2004 Mets, Clayton Kershaw, Howie Rose, James Baldwin, Noah Syndergaard The bad taste of Friday night’s Mets disaster lingered into Saturday, with Twitter moaning and comment sniping and unhappiness all around. Fortunately, I thought, there’s another ballgame today. Because one of the least-celebrated but most important aspects of baseball is that winning fixes things. A crisp win is like a cleansing breeze that airs out everything and leaves […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pierzynski, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Juan Lagares, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud |
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