When the word “designated” enters the clubhouse conversation, ballplayers must get a little glum. If you’re told you’re a designated hitter, it means your glove is deemed superfluous. If you’re told you’re designated for assignment, it means the entirety of you is deemed superfluous. Until somebody declares different, the NL reverts to a DH-free zone […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Almora Jr., Ali Sanchez, Bill Withers, Brad Brach, Corey Oswalt, Designated for Assignment, Guillermo Heredia, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books But after all, it’s what we’ve done On one hand, the Mets were defeated in embarrassing fashion on Sunday, losing to the Nationals, 15-5, leaving them at their low-water mark for 2020, eight games below .500 and tied for the worst record in the National League East. On the other hand, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Closing Day, Details, Guillermo Heredia, Jim Croce, Lists, Mike Hessman, One Met Homer Only, Ownership, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Statistical Obsessions, Steve Cohen, Uncertainty The beginning of a baseball season is light and consequence-free — with six months of games ahead, you can relax a bit, allowing yourself to simply enjoy having baseball as a companion again. Starting in June, things begin to get serious — you’re conscious of the standings, of opportunities taken and missed and lost. This […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Guillermo Heredia, Juan Soto, Justin Wilson, Kurt Suzuki, Michael Conforto, Robinson Chirinos So Seth Lugo faced the Phillies last week and let’s just say it didn’t go well. Lugo got strafed. He started out the game fanning Andrew McCutchen, but then gave up back-to-back-to-back homers, also yielding a triple and a run-scoring single in the inning while fanning two more. Can you strike out the side and have […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Guillermo Heredia, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Todd Frazier Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Meteorological summer ended on September 1 at midnight. Astronomical summer ended this morning, September 22, at 9:30. The Mets’ summer barely happened at all. The baseball season, such as it’s been, began July 24 and if it didn’t end last night, we know it’s going, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fall, Guillermo Heredia, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Rays, Summer |
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