 
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 Phillies and the Padres fought the instinct to kick me out of bed this morning, which I appreciate. Strange as it is, they became my bedfellows on Saturday, the day I resumed an ability to watch baseball and not hate everything about it. Postseason will make people otherwise at odds find common cause. Our cause […]  25 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Postseason, Padres, Phillies, Spite, Strange Bedfellows, Strange Metfellows You’ve probably heard this before, but baseball is designed to break your heart. Twenty-nine of 30 fanbases are destined to have their teams’ seasons end other than the way they’d wanted — with a victory that doesn’t mean anything or a loss that means everything. If you’re one of the unlucky 29, there comes an afternoon […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Disappointment, Endings, Joe Musgrove, John Franco, Padres, Trent Grisham, Wild Card The good part is that Citi Field still knows how to bring the noise for a postseason game. I was there Friday night for Game 1 of the Wild Card Series (or whatever it’s called, I don’t really care), and the stadium was loud bordering on deafening — not just the A/V system, though that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Bad Fans, Booing, Disappointment, Josh Bell, Jurickson Profar, Max Scherzer, Padres, Starling Marte, Wild Card, Yu Darvish The quickest way a team can demoralize its fanbase? OK, actually it’s to have an arsonist bullpen that routinely sets fire to victories so that they burn down into defeats. But the second quickest way? It’s to routinely get great starting pitching and have it undone by an absolute lack of hitting. Which is something the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Frustration, Jim Wolf, Lack of Hitting, Manny Machado, Padres “Grind you till you break” is Chris Bassitt‘s phrase, first uttered after his debut in blue and orange and the Mets having come back from being knocked down by sundry Nationals to win by doing terrible things to pitchers, spoken of earlier on this trip, and of course immortalized as part of that equal parts […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Bassitt, Cycles, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, J.D. Davis, Luke Voit, Mark Canha, Padres Should it be your desire, I’m sure you can get one of those inspirational signs for your den/game room/what-have-you that proclaims BASEBALL IS LIFE, and while I might disagree with the chosen vehicle of expression, I’m with you on the message. But the fact is that sometimes life, or at least the non-baseball part of […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bull Durham, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jacob Barnes, Jeurys Familia, Joey Lucchesi, Luis Rojas, Padres, Tommy Pham The Mets, undermanned and improvised though they are, beat the big bad San Diego Padres yet again Saturday afternoon, taking the season series from a fellow playoff team and getting their 33 games in 31 days stretch off to a positive start. It was what baseball should be — fun! It was fun watching Marcus Stroman […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Defense, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Padres Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Well, at least the pig exited covered with lipstick. The Mets fell behind 4-0 against a scintillating Yu Darvish on a night when Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff, kept getting into trouble of his own making, and had very little in terms of bullpen and bench behind him – a situation that led to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Billy McKinney, Disappointment, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Ha-Seong Kim, James McCann, Jurickson Profar, Kevin Pillar, Late Night West Coast Games, Luis Rojas, Managers, Manny Machado, Mark Melancon, Mason Williams, Padres, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tim Hill, Tomas Nido, Travis Blankenhorn, Yu Darvish (Note: The format for this post didn’t occur to me until 20-odd hours after the game, so accuracy of timestamps is theoretical at best. Sorry!) 10:00 am: Wake up, groggily. What? I’m a freelance writer, I can wake up when I want. I also am typically still working at 2 am, so lay off. 10:10 am: Oh, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Baseball Cards, Citi Field, Day Games, Donn Clendenon, Hunter Renfroe, Jacob deGrom, Jeff D'Amico, Luis Avilan, Padres |
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