All right, who’s in for the Mets to become buyers? We’re talking about a team that has won seven of thirteen, producing its best extended stretch since Mickey Callaway’s managerial acumen was considered a growth stock. And these last two games, encompassing one professional baseball victory after […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bryce Harper, Prospective Seller's Remorse, Zack Wheeler Shockingly, flipping the calendar to July did not, in fact, mean an end to the Mets’ woes. Here’s the faintest of silver linings about this terrible, horrible, no-good, very very very bad season: awful, soul-killing, rip-your-heart-out losses no longer even leave a mark. The Mets led Toronto by a cool 5-0 early Tuesday night, with Asdrubal Cabrera, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Blue Jays, Hopelessness, Robert Gsellman, Tim Peterson, Zack Wheeler If the Mets were a sitcom — and who is to say they aren’t? — the presence of Mickey Callaway would be explained away in the third act. RICCO: I gotta tell ya, Mickey…you’re not a very good manager. 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Swarzak, Applicable Sitcom Tropes, Blown Leads, Jeurys Familia, John Ricco, Mickey Callaway, Miscast Managers, Slack, Starter Who Deserved Better, The Simpsons, Tim Peterson, Zack Wheeler In a better season, Friday night’s loss to the Dodgers would have been one of those defeats that made you say vile things, hurl a remote, and then brood and mutter. In this season, it barely elicited a sigh. Yep, those are the Mets and the Mets are losing. Who’s surprised? Who, at this point, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Bellinger, Dodgers, Gabe Morales, Hansel Robles, Zack Wheeler A day game right after a bad loss is often a good thing — right back at em, rinse that bad taste out of our mouths, and what-not. The Mets will put that baseball truism to the test in a couple of hours, and most likely give us a reason to doubt it the way […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Mickey Callaway, Ozzie Albies, Paul Sewald, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Tom Hallion, Umpires, Zack Wheeler Little is more ideal than a midweek afternoon game, a pitchers’ duel unfolding in the sun and the whole affair playing out quickly enough to not bog anybody down in the worst of a rush hour commute. Of course baseball’s ideals take a pounding when left in […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Anthony Swarzak, Interleague Play, Midweek Afternoon Games, Offensive Ineptitude, Orioles, Pitchers' Duels, Weather Education Day, Zack Wheeler It’s been a busy couple of days. On Wednesday I drove up to Massachusetts in a rented Nissan Pathfinder. (Nice vehicle, BTW.) On Thursday I helped my kid clean out his dorm room, a task that would have been more efficiently accomplished with a fire hose and/or flamethrower, and transported the to-be-salvaged/reused stuff to summer storage […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Jose Reyes, Paul Sewald, Zack Wheeler I don’t consider myself particularly prescient, but I did have three recent thoughts that perhaps indicate I have a knack for sniffing out certain strands of Met debacle before they unspool. 1) “Miller Park is a stealth Mets disaster zone,” […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Debacle, Disaster Zone, Jerry Blevins, Miller Park, Paul Sewald, Prescience, Rob Drake, Robert Gsellman, Sausage Race, Zack Wheeler The deal came together with startling speed – in far less time than even one of today’s foot-on-the-accelerator news cycles, Jose Bautista went from possible New York Mets target to likely signee to announced acquisition to standing on the field wearing No. 11. No day or two to get his affairs in order, no needing to […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caleb Smith, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Recidivist Mets, Zack Wheeler Absent a perfect, um, storm of unfortunate factors, Wednesday’s matinee would never have been played. It was a miserable day in New York, a gloomy, continuous soak. But the Mets and Blue Jays had only two scheduled meetings here, and while the Mets had an off-day Thursday, the Jays did not. That left both clubs out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Blue Jays, Buddy Baumann, J.A. Happ, Juan Lagares, Kevin Pillar, Rain, Zack Wheeler |
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