Saddled with the understanding that your team is not going to win them all, the best a fan can hope for is an optimal sorting out of the order of inevitable losses. Take the Mets-Cubs series just completed. After competing on a stratospheric high, as the Mets did on their last homestand, they were, because […]
 
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. |
After five days of electric baseball, the Mets once again look like someone pulled the plug out of the wall. At least — and those are never good words to see up high in a recap — this time they didn’t look flat enough to slip under a door, the way they did in the opener […] Not by the Mets — I was at least a reasonably well-behaved guest up in section 339 with my work colleagues, a long way from home plate and the pitches David Peterson didn’t throw in sufficient proximity to it. Rather, I’ve been banned by my kid on suspicion of being a jinx. I’m 0-for-4 in outings […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Citi Field, Cubs, David Peterson, Frustration, Losing Streaks, Starling Marte, Superstition, Sweeps To review, these days the Mets play two kinds of games, which for simplicity’s sake we’ll tally up in separate columns. In Column A, we record games like these, to quote some dumbass blogger: “ones in which they lose seemingly winnable affairs in horribly frustrating ways”. Column B is the home for games like these: “ones in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Cubs, Darin Ruf, Frustration, Javier Assad, Mark Canha, Tyler Naquin None of that should have worked. Presented to you is a short sentence in which “that” is carrying a heavy load, referring to two games played over more than nine hours, the first of them featuring an emphatically run-suppressing wind, and the Mets spending both games not so much stumbling as failing to deliver a knockout […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Doubleheader Sweeps, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Frank Schwindel, J.D. Davis, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso, Yan Gomes, Yoan Lopez As a Met fan of a certain age, few things are as simple and satisfying as beating the Cubs by a healthy margin in a summer game at Wrigley Field. I have nothing against Chicago — hell, I was just there and had a grand time. I love Wrigley Field’s essential simplicity, which still shines through […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Cubs, Hate, Keegan Thompson, Mark Leiter Jr., Steve Gelbs, Wrigley Field A few of you who read us probably know that I have some other geeky pursuits besides living and dying with a baseball team. Among other things, I collect baseball cards, including making my own custom cards for Mets lacking such an honor; I write fiction, a good chunk of it set in the Star […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Dom Smith, Home Runs, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Schwarber, Nationals, Starlin Castro, Taijuan Walker Maybe the Mets just needed a day off. You’ve probably heard that they’re playing a lot of games. More games than there are days. Including enough doubleheaders to give you the baseball equivalent of an ice-cream headache. Lots of those games coming against good teams. Which will be played with a roster still beset by injuries, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Javier Baez, Kyle Hendricks, Marcus Stroman One of the many fun things so far about 2021 is the Mets winning games that in a lot of previous years you’d expect them to lose. On Tuesday night I was nervous after the Mets took a 3-2 lead and stubbornly refused to extend that to a safe distance, because I was all too aware […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Defense, Dom Smith, Eric Sogard, Jake Marisnick, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Seth Lugo, Taijuan Walker, Willie Harris It’s not quite “LFGM” — that was both snappier and happier — but Pete Alonso added to his book of quotations once Thursday night’s game against the Cubs had mercifully ended, telling the assembled scribes that “getting swept feels like eating a shit sandwich, to be honest with you.” I can’t say and I hope the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, I Hate Baseball, Javier Baez, Joey Lucchesi, Kevin Pillar, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Quotes, Sean Reid-Foley, Sweeps |
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