When we began this blog fourteen years and one day ago, we didn’t have Jacob deGrom to root for and write about. Jacob deGrom was a high school kid four months shy of his seventeenth birthday and nine years away from making himself known to us. But […]
 
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. |
Today is the last fiftieth anniversary of any day in 1968, the last year whose baseball season I don’t personally remember. No memories whatsoever. When I think of the 1968 baseball season, I think of sitting on the edge of my bed in some undetermined year a […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1968 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1998 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2018 Mets, Al Leiter, Birthdays, Craig Swan, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, PItching First you noticed the last name, specifically its unorthodox spelling, and you made puns because it’s what you do with a last name that looks different. Then you got a load of the hair, particularly its length, and you couldn’t help but get tangled up in that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, Greatest Mets Ever, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Maguire, Most Valuable Met Like Red on the bus to Fort Hancock, Tex., in The Shawshank Redemption, I found I was so excited at Citi Field as the Mets game wore on Wednesday night, I could barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it was the excitement […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Cy Young, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Ozzie Albies, Pitching Brilliance, September, The Shawshank Redemption Jacob deGrom was wonderful, and Jacob deGrom … won? No really, he did, and it wasn’t even that bumpy. Which isn’t to say it was entirely smooth sailing: the Nats brought the tying run to the plate against Seth Lugo in the eighth and again against Robert Gsellman in the ninth, causing warning klaxons to blare […] The upset of the season occurred Sunday afternoon as I was upset — mildly, but palpably (if not Papelbon) — that the brink-of-elimination Mets were defeated by the cusp-of-clinching Red Sox. The two teams may play in the same quadrant of the country, but they’ve hardly competed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Sale, Fan Groove Back, Hope, Jack Reinheimer, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Red Sox, Righteously Annoyed, Seth Lugo Betcha didn’t realize that twenty years after Seinfeld went off the air, George Costanza really did get that executive job with the Mets. You can tell by the way the Mets decided to institute the same “opposite” policy George put to such good use where changing his luck was concerned.
9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George Costanza, Jacob deGrom, Lewis Brinford, Morris Albert, Opposite, Seinfeld The Mets spoiled their own chances of contending sometime during the spring. Now, on the cusp of fall, they have finally put a meaningful crimp in somebody else’s plans. I have no more against the Phillies these days than I do the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corey Oswalt, Drew Gagnon, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mike Vail, Phillies, Rain, Satisfaction, September, Spoilers Jacob deGrom’s pitching is transcendent. Wins, losses and no-decisions have all but ceased to matter. Prospective Cy Young voting feels irrelevant. Track all the statistics you like, but they’re just numbers. Measurements capture only so much of what makes deGrom an avatar of practically unprecedented excellence.
How can you have a recap when you don’t have a final score yet? When that final score’s yet to be recorded but the show everyone came to see is over. That’s how. No offense to Seth Lugo, Steve Cishek or whatever Met and Cub relievers follow them when the game resumes, tied 1-1, in the 10th. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Jackson, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Javy Baez, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Rain Delays, Suspended Games |
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