Out in Milwaukee, the Mets played a baseball game that was quietly unsettling for a good chunk of the evening: Curtis Granderson led off with a home run and the Mets kept piling up base runners against a wild, ineffective Jimmy Nelson, but — in recent Metsian fashion — the protagonists failed to deliver 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Kay, Draft, Fans, Hope, Justin Dunn, Steven Matz Long night, short turnaround. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off, shall we? In the bottom of the fifth, Steven Matz did something strange: he got his helmet and bat and headed for the on-deck circle, apparently all-business. Which was fine, except his spot in the order wasn’t up — it was several batters away. He wasn’t even close. Matz […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Tyler Saladino We now interrupt our collective, continuing Matt Harvey freakout to note Steven Matz is posting one of the best pitching seasons on the planet. Yes, Steven Matz. Pay attention to him. Attention must be paid. Ought to be, at any rate. I could see where you’d overlook him. Matz isn’t the most interesting member of the Met […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Excellence, Jeurys Familia, Matt Reynolds, Rene Rivera, Steve Trachsel, Steven Matz Well, that’s better. Steven Matz was superb, watching a Chris Carter home run in the first and then allowing next to nothing after that. The Mets, meanwhile, didn’t exactly light up Wily Peralta, but they did enough to win and chase the blues away, at least for a night. We’ll return to those blues in a minute. (Of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Wily Peralta I guess it’s just something about San Diego. Tonight’s Mets game wasn’t that much less stressful than Sunday’s — in fact, it followed the same approximate blueprint — but whereas yesterday I was finger-crossing and pleading while urging Antonio Bastardo on from a continent away, tonight I was sprawled on my couch, occasionally losing track of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Chase Utley, Dodgers, Jim Henderson, Steven Matz, West Coast Trips Some Mets fans find Matt Harvey too chilly and self-involved to embrace wholeheartedly. But maybe they’d feel more charitable if they considered Tuesday and Wednesday’s games together. On Tuesday Harvey wasn’t great — the velocity was missing and the mechanics were uncertain, as they’ve been for three confounding months. But the Mets also did nothing to support him at the plate. Even […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jonathon Niese, Lack of Offense, Matt Harvey, PItching, Steven Matz What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn The Mets won a game with me recapping, so I guess I can stay! So can Steven Matz, who rebounded rather nicely from a horror show of a beginning to his 2016 season. Matz’s Sunday outing began with disquieting similarities to Matt Harvey‘s start on Saturday: he was cruising along but telegraphing his off-speed stuff, and you […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Young Pitching One of the many reasons football doesn’t work for me is you actually can dream of a perfect season. Odds are you won’t get one — witness all the attempts over the years, inevitably accompanied by reporters ringing up wrinkly Miami Dolphins — but as a fan of a very good NFL franchise it’s not insane to think […] Could be! The shortest span between seasons in Mets history, from a little after midnight last November 2 to a few hours before midnight this April 3, has, predictably, turned into the longest wait for a new year baseball humanity has ever known. Remember how […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, David Wright, Keith Hernandez, Polo Grounds, Scott Braun, Spring Training, Steven Matz, West Side Story |
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