Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […]
 
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 |  Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes This recap begins with a confession. Emily and I had tickets for Thursday night’s game, obtained weeks ago in exchange for a smallish charitable contribution. My 2023 debut at Citi Field was nigh, and with it the chance to demonstrate that I was not, in fact, jinxed despite having gone 0 for 2022 as an attendee, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, C.J. Abrams, David Robertson, Jeff McNeil, Jinxes, Joey Lucchesi, Mason Thompson, Nats, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Hunter Having recently conferred “visiting scholar” status upon one Maxwell Martin Scherzer, a righthander who earned his doctorate in pitching long ago, I’ll leave it to the old professor himself to figure out what the hell is wrong with him. If it’s not physical (he says he’s fine), not mental (he won’t use the pitch clock […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brian Anderson, Cheeseheads, Denyi Reyes, Garrett Mitchell, Indoor Fireworks, Max Scherzer, Punctuation, Rowdy Tellez, Tommy Hunter, Wade Miley Carlos Carrasco appeared forlorn, first on the mound, more so in the clubhouse when reporters asked him about his declining velocity, his difficulties adjusting to the timer and everything else that had gone wrong. Tommy Hunter had no choice but to wear a hit-eating grin when the camera found him at his lowest. The pitching […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 10-0 Losses, 1984 Mets, 2003 Mets, Basketball, Brad Wilkerson, Brewers, Brice Durang, Carlos Carrasco, David Cone, Expos, Gary Carter, Grand Slams, Home Openers, Luis Guillorme, Passover, Position Players Pitching, Ron Darling, San Juan Expos, Steve Trachsel, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tommy Hunter I’ll take two wins in three games, even if the price is one loss in the middle. Not that that’s how series of baseball games work, exactly, but that is how the Mets-Braves to-do went down. We won Monday. They won Tuesday. We won Wednesday. That’s math as good as it gets when you don’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Harrelson, Chris Bassitt, Dom Smith, Dreams, Drew Smith, Droughts, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Series Win, Team History, Tommy Hunter After defeating the Marlins on Monday afternoon, the Mets are 24-10 at home and 4-1 in games that end homestands. As if to express their affection for Citi Field at the end of this 5-2 homestand, they touched home six times en route to their 6-0 victory, each time crossing the plate like it meant […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Astros, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Ender Inciarte, Homestands, Jerar Encarnacion, John Paciorek, Juan Lagares, Marlins, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, P.J. Conlon, Pedro Feliciano, Road Trips, Seinfeld, Team History, Terry Leach, Tommy Hunter, Willie Harris Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz Bill James recently tweeted, “Things happen in baseball every day of the season which haven’t happened before. It isn’t ‘History’ unless someone writing a history of baseball or a history of the franchise or some such would bother to mention it. Otherwise, it’s just an oddity, or trivia.” In that case, I’m here to mention […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1989 Mets, Bill James, Billy McKinney, David Cone, Duke Snider, Johneshwy Fargas, Juan Samuel, Rich Hill, Rod Kanehl, Roel Ramirez, Stephen Tarpley, Team History, Tommy Hunter, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores (Presented with eternal affection for the timeless creation of Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz) Meet this Met There’s Tommy Hunter Johneshwy Fargas Toe! Suddenly’s a power bat 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Katz, Bullpen Games, Cameron Maybin, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Roster Turnover, Ruth Roberts, Tomas Nido, Tommy Hunter, Trevor Hildenberger, Wilfredo Tovar Less than 24 hours after the Mets lost to the Rays by one run on Friday night, the Mets were losing by one run to the Rays on Saturday afternoon, yet whereas Friday’s defeat grated deeply as a one-run loss will, the one-run deficit the Mets were alternately trying to overcome and maintain Saturday didn’t […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bench Mob, Bullpen Games, Bulpability, Churves, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jake Barnes, Jake Hager, Jeurys Familia, Joey Lucchesi, Jose Peraza, Khalil Lee, Pete Alonso, Rays, Sean Reid-Foley, St. Petersburg, Tommy Hunter |
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