The Mets were supposed to be off Monday night, but instead they wound up in D.C., playing another one of their COVID makeup dates. Jerad Eickhoff was ambushed by the crazed baseball-destroying cyborg formerly known as Kyle Schwarber and the Mets continued to espouse their philosophy of nonviolence at the plate and before you knew […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Francisco Lindor, Futile Comebacks, Gary Cohen, Gary DiSarcina, Jerad Eickhoff, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Pillar, Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Castro, Ron Darling, Ryan Zimmerman, Shifts, SNY, Stupid Nationals, Travis Blankenhorn In the bottom of the eighth Saturday night, with the Phillies leading by more runs than were worth counting, the Mets employed an extreme shift against Didi Gregorius that sort of worked and sort of didn’t. It sort of did because third baseman J.D. Davis, stationed in right field, fielded the ground ball Gregorius pushed […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Didi Gregorius, Dom Smith, J.D. Davis, Jesse Jackson, Keith Hernandez, Philosophical Puzzles, Shifts, Steven Matz The first win after one of those lengthy losing streaks always makes me feel a little sheepish. The Mets won. A spot of bother aside, it wasn’t even all that tense. And this after you spent five days being snarly and surly. Wasn’t that silly? Well, of course it was. But my goodness, it really looked like […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jared Hughes, Jeurys Familia, Mike Soroka, Shifts, SNY, Travis d'Arnaud |
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