 
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. |
Statistically, it didn’t matter that the Yankees came to Citi Field from the Bronx to complete their Subway Series sweep. It mattered that they came from near the top of their division. The Mets versus any serious contender this year has been almost uniformly bad news. Talk about hewing to your weight class. The lightweight 2017 […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2003 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Futile Comebacks, Grand Slams, Luis Severino, Raul Gonzalez, Reds, Rob Schneider, Steven Matz, Strength of Schedule, Subway Series, Yankees Steven Matz looked all right for a change for four innings Saturday night; looked a little too much like Jonathon Niese in the fifth inning; and never made it out of the sixth. Unlike Niese, the Mets’ latest vexingly underperforming lefty stalwart didn’t blame anybody but himself for his shortfall. He never does. Yoenis Cespedes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes The Amed Rosario Era commenced Tuesday night in Denver. Also, the Michael Conforto Era, the Steven Matz Era, the Jose Reyes Era and all the other eras on which we blithely bestow the names of the callups whose debuts we breathlessly anticipate continued. We don’t necessarily think of those as eras in progress. The unalloyed […] A few impressions that remain from another late night in San Diego absorbed via the television in New York: • The San Diego Padres of this century, no matter their episodic success, always come off as extras in a not particularly believable baseball movie. “Why couldn’t they use a real team? Padres? What the hell are […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Padres, Randy Jones, Steven Matz “Let’s take a look!” The big story — Mets 2017. Ten-game homestand. Friday…Oakland. Steven Matz? Michael Conforto — home run! T.J. Rivera — home run? One out, two on, T.J. up, A’s lead… Lucas […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Addison Reed, Bob Melvin, Hansel Robles, Jerry Blevins, Joe Piscopo, Michael Conforto, Ryon Healy, Steven Matz, T.J. Rivera, Topical References from 1982, Yoenis Cespedes The picture to take away from Sunday’s 13-4 drubbing at the hands of the Rockies was Steven Matz trudging across a suddenly hostile mound looking like he’d been told to move a hundred bags of concrete from one place to another for no satisfactory reason. Well, unless you tuned in a little bit late, in which case […] Last games before All-Star breaks are an intriguing subgenre. I can clearly remember the Mets going out on high notes that were microcosms of the momentum they rode as first halves closed. You don’t want the pause in the schedule, you don’t want the bats put away, you can’t wait to get back to baseball […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, Amed Rosario, Energy, Hype, Patience, Paul DeJong, Prospects, Slight Delusions of Contention, Steven Matz, Tired Blood It’s 10½ games to first place, we got one healthy starting outfielder, half a season, it’s morning, and we have a game before noon. Saturday afternoon, shortly past 2:10 PM Metropolitan Promotional Time, I entered Citi Field clutching an Asdrubal Cabrera bobblehead and overcome by a vision. In my […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Elwood Blues, Nationals, Relief Pitching, Ryan Raburn, Sam Rayburn, Steven Matz, Summer, Visions Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing In case you didn’t stay up Thursday night, the Mets stayed down again in Los Angeles. They lost all four games they played there this week. They lost in such numbing fashion that when they appeared on the verge of losing in a fairly professional manner, it felt like victory. Then the professionalism seeped away […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Bellinger, Dale Murray, George Bamberger, Jerry Blevins, Justin Turner, Paul Sewald, Pedro Baez, Steven Matz, Terry Collins |
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