The essential kindness of baseball is that even a 51-111 team — which Greg noted is what the Mets have been since their 11-1 head fake — will give you more than half a hundred days and nights that end with a fist pump, a satisfied nod or at least a sigh of relief. 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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Asdrubal Cabrera, Brooklyn Cyclones, Injuries, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz Steven Matz pitched well on Sunday afternoon, showing no signs of any woes from an injured finger. This concludes the good-news portion of the recap. Everything else was trash, and familiar trash at that: bad defense, zero offense, a certain fatal sleepiness. The Cubs beat the Mets, 2-0, completing a four-game sweep in which they never seemed […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Javier Baez, Jay Bruce, Luis Guillorme, Steven Matz The 2018 Mets season took place in miniature in the northern suburbs of Atlanta on Tuesday. It takes place in miniature most days wherever the Mets happen to be. Somebody was injured. Then […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Gerson Bautista, Injuries, Microcosm, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Walkoff Losses When the Mets struck for two tying runs in the eighth inning and then the winning run in the ninth Saturday night, I thought of the ghoulish if sort of logical question that gets asked after aviation disasters and applied it to our at least temporarily aloft carrier of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Boxes, Bullpen, Catchers, Devin Mesoraco, Steven Matz, Travin d'Arwecki, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores Choose one from among the applicable Met narratives: a) the Mets can never do anything right; b) the Mets rarely lose in Philadelphia. The latter is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Competing Narratives, Devin Mesoraco, Friday Night Lights, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz Who the heck are the 2018 Mets, anyway? The most obvious answer is that they’re 15-7, which is pretty damn good. But they sure didn’t look 15-7 during Wednesday night’s ghastly loss. They sure haven’t looked like that for a solid two weeks now, in fact. Wednesday night’s game will be dealt with succinctly, out of a […] “If you believe you’re playing well because you’re getting laid, or because you’re not getting laid, or because you wear women’s underwear, then you are! And you should know that!” — Crash Davis I hate to say it, but the Mets aren’t this good. All too soon, they will provide evidence of that. They will lose. Maybe […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Hot Streaks, Juan Lagares, Luck, Michael Conforto, Mickey Callaway, Steven Matz The biggest reason for optimism about the 2018 Mets? It’s that Noah Syndergaard and Jacob deGrom could pitch nearly 30% of their innings. The biggest reason for pessimism? Even in an ideal scenario, more than 70% of their innings will have to be pitched by someone else. Which puts the spotlight squarely on a line of […] The Mets lost, and it was annoying — after a drought in the clutch, they came back to tie the game against the Diamondbacks and their dreadful uniforms, forcing the business of determining a winner to extra innings. Then Erik Goeddel came on as the latest reliever, and it was immediately clear that he didn’t have […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pollock, Amed Rosario, Dominic Smith, Erik Goeddel, Robert Gsellman, Steven Matz |
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