 
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. |
On Friday, in rapid succession, the Mets lost an interesting player and an interesting ballgame. The player, of course, was Asdrubal Cabrera, now a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. More on him in a bit. The ballgame, hmm. It wasn’t exactly a showcase for baseball, as at times neither team looked like it had any idea what […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Asdrubal Cabrera, David Freese, Franklyn Kilome, Jason Vargas, Phillies, Pirates, Seth Lugo, Tim Peterson, Trades April has arrived only in name. We are living in West March, akin to the section of the Florida panhandle referred to as Lower Alabama. It’s too cold for baseball, but baseball insisted on showing up anyway. Six games were scheduled ahead of anything that feels like […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Brandon Nimmo, Cold, Facebook, Hansel Robles, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Radio, Robert Gsellman, Yoenis Cespedes No doubt they faced each other plenty in the American League, but I wasn’t paying attention. That’s the beauty and perhaps the drawback of the two leagues maintaining distinct identities. I don’t have to be conscious of one of them. I’m a Mets fan, thus I’m a National League fan. If there’s somebody in the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Carlos Beltran, Jimmy Rollins, Moment of Silence, Phillies, Roy Halladay On Monday, the Mets scored many runs, gave up a few less, won a baseball game, and announced several of their players would be going in for surgery. It’s indicative of how 2017 has unraveled that the win seemed like the most surprising development of the bunch. The 2017 Mets have carved out a fistful of […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Injuries, Josh Edgin, Michael Conforto, Phillies, Surgeries, T.J. Rivera The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets. Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball? Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Curtis Granderson, Dom Smith, Fernando Salas, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Mysterious Dominance, Neil Walker, Phillies, Wilmer Flores Some things you have might have missed in Sunday’s oft-snoozy, quietly weird, ultimately dispiriting loss to the Phillies: Rafael Montero wasn’t that bad. Yes, the wheels fell off in the second inning for Montero, who has a history of winding up standing forlornly by the side of the road waiting for a wrecker. But Montero was […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Nick Pivetta, Phillies, Rafael Montero So the Mets played an amazing game Saturday afternoon, with Asdrubal Cabrera hitting the go-ahead home run on the same day fans took home a bobblehead of him connecting for a walkoff home run against the same team last year, and — Wait a second. I’m afraid this post has been flagged for review. Because what you’ve written […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Asdrubal Cabrera, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Strange Events, Ty Kelly, Zack Wheeler Asdrubal knew it was OUTTA HERE! OUTTA HERE! as soon as he hit it. Eleven innings played. Twenty-seven home players used. Two-hundred fourteen home pitches thrown. Two-hundred sixty-three minutes consumed. Two arms raised skyward. One-hundred eighty emotional degrees traversed. And, in the final scene, the Three Amigos riding off into the sunrise, having rescued […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Basket of Deployables, Brandon Nimmo, Chumbawamba, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Magical Thinking, Milestones, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, The Three Amigos, Yoenis Cespedes I traveled to the Meadowlands a couple of Septembers ago for a Giants game. In the first series executed by the home team, a run for four yards on 3rd and 1 produced a first down. My host for the afternoon, as True Blue a fan as there is, could not have been happier to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Mike Compton, One-Hitters, Phillies, Starting Pitching, Zach Eflin I can’t prove it, but Met losses to the Phillies are the most annoying losses there are. The Phillies have become the new Marlins. Move over, Miami. You’re no longer quite that team. All losses are the worst, and I don’t doubt that if you catch me after a defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the […] |
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