 
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. |
Spring Training, you gotta stop making real news. Frankie Montas’s lat last week. Nick Madrigal’s shoulder over the weekend. Sean Manaea’s oblique as the Monday surprise du jour. We’re here for bright skies and optimism and megastars presenting vehicles to would-be stars in exchange for jersey numbers. That’s the news we can consume and smile about. All injuries […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  22, Al Leiter, Alexander Canario, Brett Baty, David Wright, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Frankie Montas, Injuries, Jimmy Carter, Juan Soto, Moment of Silence, Nick Madrigal, Presidents, Ray Knight, Retired Numbers, Rituals, Roberta Flack, Sean Manaea, Spring Training Injuries, Team History, Uniform Numbers The Mets’ How We Spent Our Winter Vacation essay can be produced in succinct fashion: “We did some signing. We did some trading. We did some retaining.” Given who they signed in December and who they retained in February, that’s a dozen words worthy of a pretty high grade. Free agents and player swaps are what […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Ed Charles, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Kevin Mitchell, Not The Same, OMG, Pete Alonso, Ray Knight, Retentions, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Years After, Uniforms Oh, it was a fun year. Such a fun year! The fuel light came on and the engine quit a little ways short of the Promised Land, but what a joyride until then! We got 34 new Mets, five of them making their MLB debuts. Some look like pieces of the future, others remind us […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Houser, Alex Young, Baseball Cards, Ben Gamel, Christian Scott, Cole Sulser, Danny Young, Dedniel Nunez, Eddy Alvarez, Eric Orze, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jesse Winker, Joe Hudson, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Jose Iglesias, Julio Teheran, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Matt Festa, Michael Tonkin, Pablo Reyes, Paul Blackburn, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Holy Books, Ty Adcock, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short The Mets lost, and their season is over. Sean Manaea didn’t have his putaway stuff, Phil Maton looked gassed, and Kodai Senga turned in one good inning but not a second. Meanwhile, the hitters worked solid ABs and kept creating traffic, but couldn’t get the big hit they needed: They were 2 for 9 with runners […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Brandon Nimmo, Disappointment, Dodgers, Farewells, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor Eight pitches. They were the first sign that Monday afternoon’s Game 2 might go better than Sunday’s steamrolling. Happily, they weren’t the last. Leading off against Ryan Brasier, the first man in a parade of Dodger relievers, Francisco Lindor worked a 2-1 count, then fouled off four sliders and fastballs. Brasier, possibly a little frustrated to see […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Anthony Banda, Both Mike Marshalls, Brent Honeywell, Clayton Kershaw, Daniel Murphy, Dodgers, Edgardo Henriquez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Feeman, Jesse Winker, Jorge Lopez, Kike Hernandez, Landon Knack, Mark Vientos, Max Muncy, Mookie Betts, Phil Maton, Ryan Brasier, Ryne Stanek, Ryne Stanelk, Sean Manaea, Shohei Ohtani, Starling Marte, Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman You have to laugh it off. “Ha.” There ya go. Seriously, though — the Mets just endured their worst-ever postseason loss in terms of run differential, and it wasn’t even close. Dodgers 9 Mets 0. The Mets had never lost in the spotlight portion of October by more than six. Few teams get beat by a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Blowouts, Brandon Nimmo, Bullpen Use, Dodgers, Jack Flaherty, Jesse Winker, Kodai Senga, Robert Gsellman, Rueful Laughter, Sean Manaea, Tyler Pill, Worst Postseason Run Differential As I was getting out of my uniform, Jerry Koosman, whose locker stood next to mine, was slipping into his street clothes. “Wrap it up tomorrow, Koos,” I said. “I don’t want to go back to Baltimore. That place makes Fresno look like Paris.” “I’ll get ’em,” Jerry said. “I don’t want to go there either.” 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Confidence, Francisco Lindor, Grimace, Hayden Sanger, Hayden Senger, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Stevie Wonder, Stomach Pit, Tom Seaver, Tyrone Taylor I had the feeling I was seeing something I hadn’t witnessed before, so I ran through it in my head to confirm. Eleven postseasons. Twenty postseason rounds. Ninety-four postseason games. It took until the respective eleventh, twentieth and ninety-fourth of the above for the New York Mets to do something they’d never done before. Never […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Brewers, Helpful Precedent, Oof, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Sean Manaea, Team History Yes, Ramon De Jesus’s umpire scorecard is going to be a thing to behold. (It’ll show up here if you want to torture yourself.) The most egregious missed call was, rather obviously, the ball four on Francisco Alvarez that was called strike three, turning a bases-loaded situation for the Mets into the end of an […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Johnson, Alex Young, Anxiety, Brewers, Bryce Turang, Danny Young, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Ramon De Jesus, Rhys Hoskins, Sean Manaea, Umpiring, Wild Card By defeating Philadelphia on Saturday at Citi Field, the Mets elevated their win total to 86 while keeping their loss total at 69. Those are numbers a Mets fan likes to stare at as a playoff pursuit approaches its final turn. Invoking the two world championships in franchise history as a useful omen in the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Complete Wins, Echoes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Omens, Sean Manaea, Trust |
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