On nights I’m recapping, I put a little warning for myself on repeat in my brain: It’s not all about the narrative. We see patterns while watching baseball (or while doing anything else, storytelling monkeys that we are) and we find them irresistible — pattern detection is a tool we use to make sense of […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Minter, Alfonzo Marquez, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, City Connects, Daniel Murphy, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Ferrer, Kodai Senga, Kyle Finnegan, Luis Garcia, Mark Vientos, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Triple Plays, Tyrone Taylor, Umpiring, Uniforms The Mets won again, once again by not scoring a bunch of runs but getting remarkable pitching. Remarkable pitching … and having every key moment go their way. Which, granted, is often two different ways of saying the same thing. I started off listening to Howie and Keith in my backyard and then moved to watching […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Alec Burleson, Brendan Donovan, Brett Baty, Cardinals, Edwin Diaz, Fox, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Luisangel Acuna, Nolan Gorman, Pete Alonso, Thomas Saggese, Uniforms, Yohel Pozo Friday night’s game ended with the sweetest of words. Am I referring to “Mets win” or to “put it in the books?” To quote the tyke from the Internet meme, “Why not both?” On Thursday the Mets did a lot of things right — hitters refused to expand the strike zone and heretofore suspect relievers pitched […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Apple TV+, Edwin Diaz, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Rob Drake, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Uniforms The Mets played to five ties in Spring Training. You can’t do that in the regular season, eight long-ago curfew/rain-related exceptions to the rule notwithstanding,. Therefore, Opening Day 2025 was going to be either a win or a loss, meaning we were bound to process it, in very basic terms, as good or bad. Loss equals […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Clay Holmes, Framber Valdez, Hayden Senger, Huascar Brazoban, Josh Hader, Juan Soto, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Rationalization, Uniforms The Mets’ How We Spent Our Winter Vacation essay can be produced in succinct fashion: “We did some signing. We did some trading. We did some retaining.” Given who they signed in December and who they retained in February, that’s a dozen words worthy of a pretty high grade. Free agents and player swaps are what […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Ed Charles, Jesse Winker, Jose Iglesias, Kevin Mitchell, Not The Same, OMG, Pete Alonso, Ray Knight, Retentions, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, The Years After, Uniforms Some random observations from the Mets’ cudgeling of Patrick Corbin and the Nationals: I’m going to get the complaining out of the way first: Dear God, what did they do to the black uniforms? Eliminating the white drop shadow was a dreadful idea; without it, the tops look murky and muddy, with the orange and blue […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Grimace, Hope, Jake Diekman, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Reed Garrett, Summer Nights, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms, Wild Card The Mets ain’t too bad when they wear either their classic home pinstriped uniforms (10-7) or their road grays (9-8). They’re godawful when they wear anything else. Four losses with no wins in the City Connects. Two losses with no wins in the fade-to-blacks. And now, with the belated arrival of the white pants that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, An Appreciation, Black Jerseys, Blue Jerseys, City Connects, New York, New York Metropolitan Area, Paul Lukas, Uni Watch, Uniforms Ah, baseball. It’s a game of redemption, they say. The question sometimes is who gets redeemed last. Chris Taylor, normally reliable as a Dodger, has endured a nightmarish 2024 so far, one that left him hitting .029 going into Friday night’s game against the Mets. Things didn’t get much better for Taylor in his first AB: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Taylor, City Connect, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Mercury Mets, Redemption, Reed Garrett, Uniforms, Yoshinobu Yamamoto En route from the bottom 60% of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT — Nos. 55–44 here; Nos. 43–34 here; Nos. 33–23 here — to the just plain Top 20 (expressed without a percentage sign because they are, in fact, Nos. 20–1), I need to make a stop in consecutive years […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1994 Strike, 1995 Mets, Bill Pulsipher, Bobby Bonilla, David Segui, Dwight Gooden, Jason Isringhausen, Jose Vizcaino, Kevin McReynolds, Marlins, Mood Rings, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Patches, Rico Brogna, Turnarounds, Uniforms, World Series, Youth The good news: The Mets fixed the New York-Presbyterian patch, the one that was unreadable and looked vaguely like an ad for the Phillies, Dunkin’ Donuts or some nightmarish chimera of those two entities. It annoyed Steve Cohen, and when you’re Steve Cohen and you’re annoyed, people hop to it. The other good news: Nope, that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Josiah Gray, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Steve Cohen, Uniforms |
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