No-hitters can leave you speechless in the moment but have you saying all kinds of things you hadn’t previously uttered in the days, weeks, months and years that follow. As Mets fans, we found ourselves speaking both excitedly and differently after June 1, 2012. When your focus turns from “when are we gonna get one […]
 
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. |
Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill Yoan Lopez came up and in on Nolan Arenado in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s almost incidental Mets loss to the Cardinals. Like what Shawn Estes threw in the greater geographic vicinity of Roger Clemens’s backside twenty years ago, Lopez’s pitch didn’t touch the batter he was facing. Unlike with Estes, Lopez’s pitch did […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Baseball Etiquette, Buck Showalter, Cardinals, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Davis, Kabuki, Nolan Arenado, Roger Clemens, Shawn Estes, Yoan Lopez Word to the National League: stop hitting the Mets. It’s not helping your cause. You’re getting them angry. And you’re getting yourselves beat. The Mets have taken pitches to the body more than any other NL team. The Mets have also piled up more wins than any other NL team. Perhaps there’s a connection. If you’re […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Hit By Pitch, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte Pitchers’ duels are one of the earliest tests of budding baseball fandom — dull to the casual observer who wants action and doesn’t get why those around him are oohing and aahing over hitters swinging and missing or just looking flustered at balls zipping from hurlers’ hands to places they weren’t expected to wind up. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Comebacks, Dom Smith, Giovanny Gallegos, Jeff McNeil, Joey Cora, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Miles Mikolas, Pitchers' Duels, Robinson Cano, Trevor May, Tyler O'Neill We’ve been where the Diamondbacks are now — a team with hope for the future that’s trying to remind itself that future can’t be hurried. The guys who could be a part of it need to get there at their own pace, with all the growing pains implied; the caretaker players are important as teachers […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Christian Walker, Dallas Green, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Nick Ahmed, Pavin Smith, Sergio Alcantara, Seth Beer, Starling Marte, Torey Lovullo, Tylor Megill On Saturday night in Phoenix, we learned the Mets’ starting pitching depth only goes so far. Because of injuries, we had seen our No. 1A through No. 7 starters acquit themselves brilliantly this season. We haven’t seen No. 1 — Jacob deGrom — but we can vouch for his brilliance. Everybody else, from Max Scherzer […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Depth, Strikeouts, Trevor Williams Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen Now it’s getting serious, to the extent that anything can be serious after fourteen games. The Mets are off to a seriously good start and maybe then some. I’m not sure when a start just becomes the season, but fourteen games will do for our purposes. A seven-game road trip with five wins, a seven-game […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1010 WINS, C.W. McCall, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Great Starts, Mark Canha The game was lost when balls off the bats of Giants fell in and the balls off the bats of Mets didn’t. The game was lost was when the Mets pitcher who’d previously given up almost nothing gave up a bunch. The game was lost when the only Belt in the game delivered the only belt of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Dick Scott, Eric Chavez, Gilligan's Island, Inevitability, Jeremy Hefner, Nets, Starling Marte, Wilmer Flores |
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