The Mets are an ordinary ballclub. They’re definitely not very good, they’re probably not very bad, even if five losses on a six-game road trip leaves you believing they couldn’t be much worse. They could be. They could also be better. It’s a long season. Teams that […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2019 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Getaway Games, Hunter Renfroe, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Matt Strahm, Ordinary Baseball Team, Padres, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Tyler Bashlor, Wilmer Font Pete Alonso was National League Rookie of the Month for April and National League Rookie of the Night on Tuesday. He is a veteran in kid’s clothing any time you hear him speak. He is a franchise player exploding all around us.
With a one-and-a-half game lead over two rivals and an off day today, the Mets are guaranteed go into the books as the kings of April 2018, provided there are books devoted to April kings in any year. At most, there’s maybe a pamphlet.
Your East Coast Based Late Night West Coast Correspondent is an unreliable narrator regarding the bulk of Friday night’s Mets-Padres affair, at least from approximately the top of the second to sometime in the bottom of the sixth, for YECBLNWCC indulged in a 75% nap. I had […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Hosmer, Gray Areas, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Padres, Sleep, Tug McGraw, West Coast Trips A few impressions that remain from another late night in San Diego absorbed via the television in New York: • The San Diego Padres of this century, no matter their episodic success, always come off as extras in a not particularly believable baseball movie. “Why couldn’t they use a real team? Padres? What the hell are […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Padres, Randy Jones, Steven Matz If there was a way to lose Wednesday night, the Mets were going to find it. The bullpen was terrible. The bullpen was terribly managed. The hitters turned a gimme into a gag me. Just a complete and utter disaster. Insult to injury: said meltdown came against the Padres, who sure don’t look like a team capable […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Curtis Granderson, Fernando Salas, Hansel Robles, Horribleness, Hunter Renfroe, Idiotic Managing, Josh Smoker, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Neil Ramirez, Padres, Terry Collins Joe Posnanski, who writes lyrically and frequently about baseball, published a breezy piece last week titled “Ranking the Stadiums,” in which he identified Citi Field as one of the majors’ “Underrated Ballparks,” alongside Comerica Park and Angel Stadium. He elaborated, “I actually don’t know if Citi Field is underrated — I suspect most people who […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Gary Cohen, Joe Posnanski, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Padres, Warner Wolf A day after Bartolo Colon shocked and delighted the baseball world, it seemed somehow anticlimactic for the Mets to be expected to go out and do something as mundane as win a game. It would have been fitting if Major League Baseball had declared Sunday a national holiday. It would have been fine — as I suggested in moderate jest […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Birthdays, Derek Norris, Eric Campbell, Families, Howie Rose, Jon Jay, Matt Harvey, Padres, Todd Radom If you’re ever in San Diego, definitely take in a game at Petco Park. I’ve been a couple of times, and it’s an underrated stadium. Petco has good food (the fish tacos in particular); some winning departures from the standard New Ballpark sample book, such as the white and buff colors and hanging gardens; the grassy hill […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Fernando Rodney, Frustration, Padres, Petco Park, Replay, West Coast Trips Every paean to the beauty of baseball dies somewhere above the vast acreage of the Petco Park outfield, not unlike the fate that awaited every fly ball the Mets hit from the first until the seventh inning Thursday night. Unkind dimensions, marine layer, jet lag, Met lag, not to mention shifts up the wazoo and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Colin Rea, Jacob deGrom, No-Hit Bids, Padres, West Coast Trips |
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