The Mets have won seven of their past eight…is a sentence that doesn’t make a Mets fan feel any better when it is understood that the eighth game in that string was the loss. It is as easily understood that seven-game winning streaks don’t automatically grow to eight and nine and so on just because […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Gilbert O’Sullivan, Kevin Newman, Pennant Race, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Steven Matz, Trevor Williams, Tyler Bashlor, Wilson Ramos, Winning Streaks Halted The cynical trio situated not far from where a lefthanded pitcher was about to go to work Saturday night cleverly braced for the worst. It’s the first inning, we told each other, knowingly. We all know what that means. In past starts, it’s meant Steven Matz would be rushing to make action happen on that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Complete Games, Pirates, Quick Games, Saturday Night, Shutouts, Steven Matz Hey Brodie, whatcha doin’? Awesome! Hey Brodie, why ya throwin’ a chair? Cool! Hey Mickey, whatcha doin’? Outta sight! Hey Todd, whatcha doin’? 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chairs, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Ejections, Jake Arrieta, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Mysterious Ways, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido Well, the Mets’ renaissance lasted for a grand total of one game. The team had been weirdly aggressive on the bases for a couple of days, with formerly timid runners lighting out for the next base and even a double steal secured. But the good times screeched to a halt in the sixth inning Wednesday night. […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Dallas Green, Gary DiSarcina, J.D. Davis, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Steven Matz Goodness knows the Mets have had plenty of drama in this very strange year. But every so often, they play a baseball game that’s just a baseball game, refreshingly free of sideshows and controversies and agita. And it’s a reminder that, to quote the endlessly quotable Bull Durham, “this game’s fun, damn it.” At our house […] The Mets lost, this time not with the thunder of a bullpen avalanche but with the merest whimper. Steven Matz had one of his games where he shows up for duty in the second inning instead of the first, the offense began and ended with a solo home run, and Amed Rosario had a wretched […] I took a little Matz nap somewhere between very late Tuesday night and very early Wednesday morning. It was peaceful. Steven Matz had made it so, via professional hitting, heady baserunning and characteristically competent pitching. The pitching’s what we tune in for even if it’s also what we nod […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Around the Horn, Cody Bellinger, Dodgers, Grand Slams, Michael Conforto, Middle-Innings Matz Naps, Steven Matz The Mets are 4-0 in the last four; were 0-5 in their previous five; and were 3-0 in the three before that. I’d say they’re streaky, but that doesn’t seem to cover a team that expertly wavers between exhilarating and exasperating. Are the Mets good enough to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 2007 Mets, Carlos Gomez, Dominic Smith, George Foster, Long Island, Paper Lace, Parkways, Recidivist Mets, Robert Caro, Shawn Green, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Wilson Ramos What you want as a fan is for your team to be its best self always. Of course you do. Win. Win 162 times and then eleven more times and then shower us in confetti. Be so best en route to the Canyon of Heroes that our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Best Selves, Carlos Gomez, Fun, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Marlins, Mickey Callaway, Not Fun, One-Hitters, Pablo Lopez, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano's nonsense, Steven Matz To start a game, you want to see your leadoff batter, Jeff McNeil, get on base. McNeil, we can all agree, is the greatest hitter extant. He was batting .352 as Friday night began, which is all the proof our Mets fan hearts require to declare supremacy on […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Porn, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Dominic Smith, Jeff McNeil, Josh Hader, Lorenzo Cain, Michael Conforto, Offensive Ineptitude, Pete Alonso, Questionable Roster Moves, Robinson Cano, Ryan Braun, Steven Matz, Wilson Ramos |
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