On Sunday morning, I read the Mets had lost their final game before the All-Star break the previous seven years there had been an All-Star break (which is to say not including 2020). Hence, I kept my hopes in check that the Mets would extend their momentum to a six-game winning streak and burnish the […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Break, Annual Loss Before the Break, Ezequiel Tovar, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Michael Toglia, Pete Alonso, Rockies We’ve all said it. Made it a mantra, even. Enemy runner on first, maybe other bases too, maybe they’re loaded. Outs? Not enough of them. Maybe just one. Maybe none. C’mon, get a ground ball. It’s been called the pitcher’s best friend for a century or more — the ball put in play that yields two outs […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Brendan Rodgers, Christian Scott, Citi Connect, Dedniel Nunez, Double Plays, Elias Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Kevin Elster, Luis Torrens, Rockies, Ryan Feltner, Viktor Vodnik Even in this age of humidors, Coors Field still produces games like Saturday night’s, with hits raining down like artillery, big leads proving smaller than they look on paper, a starting pitcher who’s been effective elsewhere left gasping for air, and relievers sawing the bullpen phone off the wall and hiding in that weird little […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connect, Coors Field, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Justin Verlander, Nolan Jones, Rockies, Starling Marte The Rockies has somehow now been around for 30 years. I was at their first-ever game, which they lost to the Mets at Shea. I watched them beat the Mets behind Dante Bichette in extras at Coors Field’s christening. Since then I’ve seen the Mets play at Coors far too often for my liking. I’ve […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Coors Field, Eduardo Escobar, Max Scherzer, Mike Moustakas, Nolan Jones, Rockies The Mets, all $430-odd million of them, are a mess. The hitting is anemic. The starting pitching is mediocre. The record is the literal definition of mediocracy. The vibe, not an official stat but readily detectable, is a lot worse than that, with fans increasingly fuming before taking their seats, looking for someone to blame and […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Lans, Austin Gomber, Bill Pulsipher, Daniel Bard, Frustration, Gary Gentry, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Mental Health, Paul Wilson, Rockies, Shea Stadium Your recapper began Sunday’s finale against the Rockies in an odd place: sitting inside a kayak in the East River. Well, more properly, the embayment between piers at Brooklyn Bridge Park, where I’m a safety boater for the park’s free kayaking program. This means I offer some basic paddling instruction, intervene when people have trouble, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, German Marquez, Jeff McNeil, Max Scherzer, Rockies Having emerged from the forced march portion of their schedule, the Mets returned to Citi Field and took care of business against the Rockies, though a game that looked poised to become a laugher never quite launched, turning into a too-close-to-the-ground 3-1 win. Still a good outcome, particularly given that the Braves didn’t win, though […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Blackmon, Jacob deGrom, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Ryan Feltner, Ryan McMahon The Mets have now played the Rockies for more than a baseball generation, but games in Denver will always seem bizarre — incredible shifts in temperature, snow-outs in late May, humidors and breaking balls (or the lack thereof), and the strange neither-here-nor-thereness of the team being far from home but not quite on a West […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Coors Field, Luis Guillorme, Rockies, Shutouts, Taijuan Walker Dear Student: The following is your remote learning unit for May 27, 2021. Please complete each assigned exercise, derived from this afternoon’s lesson plan, and submit your answers through your personalized educational portal, using code TWOFORTHURSDAY. Please stay safe, New York Metropolitan Teaching Technologies — 1) A standard scheduled baseball game measures nine innings. How many innings would a doubleheader […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Cameron Maybin, Churves, Connor Joe, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Rockies Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Coors Field, Discontent, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Gary DiSarcina, German Marquez, Jacob deGrom, Jonathan Villar, Rockies, Rule Changes, Strikeouts |
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