Congratulations to the New York Mets of July 5, 2024, for doing something no Mets team had ever done before in a blowout loss so bad that a position player had to pitch. On Friday night, the Mets, whose last call to the visitors’ bullpen at PNC Park would summon catcher Luis Torrens, actually stayed […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Backloaded Blowout Losses, Bill Pecota, Bryan Reynolds, Grand Slams, Home Runs, Jake Diekman, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Paul Skenes, Pirates, Position Players Pitching, Rowdy Tellez, Steven Matz, Team History, Ty Adcock Hey old friends One day chums New friends pour 1. Noah Syndergaard Juan Lagares 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Amed Rosario, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Khalil Lee, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Old Friends, Oliver Perez, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Matz, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler We have it from a reliable source that Steve Cohen was not happy yesterday morning. He had never seen such unprofessional behavior exhibited by a player’s agent. He guessed words and promises didn’t matter. That was yesterday, Wednesday. Today is a new day, not only Thursday, but Thanksgiving Day. I hope Steve Cohen is happy this […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Antonio Santos, Happiness, Nick Plummer, Rob Martin, Robinson Cano, Steve Cohen, Steven Matz, Thanksgiving, Twitter Steven Matz made his debut for the Mets in June 2015, pitching against the Reds. It didn’t start out ideally — the young lefty from Long Island surrendered a home run to the first batter he faced in the big leagues, Brandon Phillips — but it soon got better. A lot better: Matz doubled in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Homecomings, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, Tylor Megill We need not mourn the departure of Long Island’s Own Steven Matz, traded to Toronto for younger pitchers Sean Reid-Foley, Yennsy Diaz and Josh Winckowski on Wednesday night. Nor need we celebrate his deletion from Met ranks. Sending Steven packing was just something that needed to be done. Still, Matz, soon to turn 30, was no […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Steven Matz, The Office, Trades The Mets followed two unlikely good nights in which they got lousy, abbreviated starts but hit and relieved their way out of the mess with a thoroughly bad one: no hitting, no relief, and no help on the scoreboard. None of which is ever good, all of which is really bad when the season’s down […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Franklyn Kilome, Losses, Roger Angell, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier 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 Monday wasn’t a good day for Mets pitchers hailing from Long Island. Long Island’s own Marcus Stroman (LIOMS), heretofore rehabbing his torn calf and presumed to be returning to the Mets’ disturbingly depleted rotation soon, announced in the afternoon he was opting out of 2020 due to his family’s COVID-19 concerns. Come nightfall, Long Island’s […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Asdrubal Cabrera, Long Island, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Opting Out, Position Players Pitching, Steven Matz In what I suppose one could say is a sign of relative normalcy, I’m disgusted by the Mets and want them to go away. No! Not really go away! But … well, sort of. Because I was so happy to have three hours of solace a night, and instead the last two nights the Mets have […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Vazquez, Edwin Diaz, Jose Peraza, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Steven Matz Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell |
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