Recently, as in a day or two before a revised Spring Training schedule embedded with a pod of Marlins, Nationals, Cardinals and Astros was issued and my mood instinctively if temporarily brightened, I was feeling pretty nihilistic about the whole Mets baseball thing. “Can you imagine them trading…?” I asked myself about pretty much every […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brad Brach, Injuries, Metallica, Nihilism, Relief Pitching, Seth Lugo, Spring Training The saving grace of a season’s first loss, particularly if it follows the euphoria of a season’s first win, is its inevitability. It was gonna happen sooner or later. Get this unpleasant slice of reality over with since you know darn well you have to and move on. But don’t get it over with the […] Up they haven’t given, though up they haven’t gotten. After every Mets loss, of which there’ve been myriad, I hear the manager and selected players tell postgame questioners, “Nobody here has given up.” That’s admirable on the surface, implicit in the job description, ineffectual in the final score. The Mets don’t give up. They come to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Braves, Grim Forecast, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streaks, Not Giving Up, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Robert Gsellman, Trying Team For five innings, Lockett was close to our hearts, but in the sixth, we were forced to realize Font just wasn’t our type. By the time we got around to Flexen, we had no strength left. I’d had a silly thought — a thought so silly that it might have worked. I tried to tell Mickey […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Relief Pitching, Summer, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font “All right, now we move on to the entries from Mr. Callaway’s class. Mr. Callaway’s class always has such interesting ideas and unorthodox ways of displaying them. Our first student is Peter Alonso. Peter, tell us about your project.” 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Pounders, Drama, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Science Sometimes, it turns out, a dull baseball game is better without a little injection of excitement. Wednesday night’s series finale between the Mets and Phillies started off glacial and boring and then turned glacial and annoying. The Phils nicked Jason Vargas for a run in the first but nothing else; the Mets couldn’t get the hit […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas, Relief Pitching, Rhys Hoskins, Robert Gsellman I hope the Mets don’t have one of those mobile plans that limits their minutes, because they’re tearing through them at a prodigious rate. Time of game over the past week reads like the schedule board at Grand Central as it gears up for rush hour. 4:08; […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Bold Leadership, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Edwin Diaz, Jackie Robinson, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mickey Callaway, Phillies, Relief Pitching, Saves, Time of Game, Trading Places, Trains, Unwritten Rules Technically, Sunday afternoon’s Mets win over the Nationals was the day half of a day-night doubleheader, but you’d be excused for confusion in that the day game itself proceeded like day and night from a Met perspective. Maybe that was appropriate at the end of a week that commenced with a solar eclipse. DAY BREAKS: Asdrubal […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro De Aza, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Daniel Murphy, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheaders, Edwin Jackson, Gary Cohen, Great Calls, Hansel Robles, Juan Lagares, Relief Pitching, Strike Zones, Tommy Milone, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Wilmer Flores It’s 10½ games to first place, we got one healthy starting outfielder, half a season, it’s morning, and we have a game before noon. Saturday afternoon, shortly past 2:10 PM Metropolitan Promotional Time, I entered Citi Field clutching an Asdrubal Cabrera bobblehead and overcome by a vision. In my […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Elwood Blues, Nationals, Relief Pitching, Ryan Raburn, Sam Rayburn, Steven Matz, Summer, Visions During the first game Wednesday, the Mets scored practically at will. Michael Conforto, newly anointed leadoff hitter for however long Terry Collins can resist sitting him, was a perfect fit at the top of the order, singling in the first, homering in the third. Yoenis Cespedes was Yoenis Cespedes for a second consecutive night. Asdrubal Cabrera was […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Emotional Abyss, Hansel Robles, Michael Conforto, Relief Pitching, Ryan Howard, Winning Streak, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler |
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