Every fall, the postseason brings three individual awards: the NLCS MVP; the ALCS MVP; the World Series MVP. I inevitably stay tuned after championships are determined to find out who won each respective series MVP, never thinking that it’s odd that a prize is about to be presented for a performance spanning as few as […]
 
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 |  Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Michael Conforto, Most Valuable Met Breaking news: Mets starting pitcher actually gets win! A Mets starter hadn’t done that in 19 games, tying a club record set in the less than sterling 1980 season. Seth Lugo said “no more” Saturday night, allowing just a solo homer to Rhys Hoskins over five innings and fanning eight. Of course, if Lugo’s starting that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 2020 Mets, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Erasmo Ramirez, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Strange Events, Todd Frazier Somehow even people who aren’t baseball fans know that spring is about renewal. Bare tree branches begin sprouting tender green buds. Flowers and bright shoots of grass poke out of the earth. The sun’s around a little longer and starts to feel a little warmer. Everything feels fragile, but with the promise of heat and […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Dominic Smith, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Marcus Stroman, Michael Wacha, Mrs. Met, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Unforeseen Interruptions Yoenis Cespedes said he won’t be speaking to the media this year. If he’s not speaking to the media, he’s not speaking to the fans. C’mon, Yo, talk to us. You don’t have to say anything substantive. Hardly any of your professional colleagues do when they’re not suggesting what acts of vigilante justice they’d like seen […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Communications, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Media, Spring Training, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to the fourth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Eric Campbell, Hansel Robles, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Edgin, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Cuddyer, Neil Walker, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera In the beginning, the Mets didn’t have to play youngsters. The Mets were a youngster, a toddler, the bouncing baby of the National League basement. No matter who they featured, the thinking went, they were going to be clumsy, so they might as well be familiar. Hence the 1962 Mets’ early reliance on daily lineups […] After two games worth of balls going plop in the night, a Mets fan could have been forgiven for concluding Saturday afternoon’s game wasn’t exactly a must-watch event. The Mets, after a brief bout of not being completely depressing, had reverted to tragicomic form out west. First they played into the deep hours of the […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Pete Alonso, Stephen Nogosek, Walker Lockett “Don’t bother, Mickey,” I wanted to tell the beleaguered manager of the New York Mets after his club dropped and I do mean dropped its second consecutive extra-inning game, this one on a patently unbelievable albeit hauntingly familiar defensive misplay, “we didn’t touch home plate, either.” One sometimes forgets when the bullpen falters or the left […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Alex Dickerson, Amed Rosario, Applicable Metsian Mythology, Billy Preston, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dominic Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Juan Marichal, Luis Avilan, Madison Bumgarner, Marv Throneberry, Todd Frazier, Tyler Beede, Wilson Ramos When I was in junior high, I’d carry a Bic pen in the front left pocket of my jeans and, at some point in the course of the school year, the pen would explode. Several points, actually…and a whole pack of pens. I never understood that. It was just hanging around during one class, then […] Hey Brodie, whatcha doin’? Awesome! Hey Brodie, why ya throwin’ a chair? Cool! Hey Mickey, whatcha doin’? Outta sight! Hey Todd, whatcha doin’? 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chairs, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Ejections, Jake Arrieta, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Mysterious Ways, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido |
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