 
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. |
As it turned out, the Mets played one classic in the first leg of the 2025 Subway Series, sandwiched by a pair of duds. Sunday night’s finale, narrated by an irritating ESPN crew that licked every Yankee uniform until it was shiny and clean, looked like it was in the running to be a classic for […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Judge, Adam Hamari, Bad Fundies, Clay Bellinger, David Peterson, Genesis Cabrera, Huascar Brazoban, Jorbit Vivas, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Max Fried, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, Ryne Stanek, Subway Series, Yankees Who could or would be happy that the Mets beat the Yankees in the Bronx on Saturday? Us, obviously. The Mets beating the Yankees is a thing for us. We’re Mets fans. We like when the Mets beat anybody. We especially like the Mets beating the Yankees. We like Griffin Canning, he of the 2.47 ERA, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos May, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jacob deGrom, Jim Gosger, Jim Marshall, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Mike Lecolant, Moment of Silence, Ralph Kiner, Reed Garrett, Rich Hill, Ron Swoboda, Subway Series, Tom Seaver Tylor Megill looked Niesean Friday night against the Yankees. If you know me and/or are a long-time reader, you know that’s pretty close to a deadly insult. Megill suffered some bad luck along the way to giving up four earned runs in 2 2/3 laborious innings in the Bronx: In the fatal third inning (which took […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Boone, Clay Bellinger, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Juan Soto, Paul Goldschmidt, Subway Series, Tylor Megill, Yankees, Yerry De Los Santos If you were curious as to what a 2025 New York Mets lineup that doesn’t feature Juan Soto would have looked like, you got a glimpse Wednesday night at Citi Field. Carlos Mendoza rested his right fielder, the fellow who’s batted second every game since Opening Day, the guy who — whether he’s raking or […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blah, Clay Holmes, Jose Azocar, Juan Soto, Rain, Rest, the immortal Chris Majkowski The 1986 Mets were so good that they couldn’t be stopped by a ball landing in a glove; the ball staying in the glove; and the glove and the ball being tossed as one to record a putout against them. All of that happened when Keith Hernandez grounded a ball back to Giants pitcher Terry […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Gloves, Mark Vientos, Mets Third Basemen, Webbing The Mets won a misbegotten mess of a game against the Pirates Monday night, a contest simultaneously wonderful and awful, with eerily parallel mistakes ahead of a Mets closing kick that left you asking, “Wasn’t there an easier way to get here?” Nothing seemed all that stange in the early innings, as David Peterson (excellent) dueled […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brian Reynolds, Caleb Ferguson, David Bednar, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Henry Davis, Huascar Brazoban, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jared Triolo, Jeff McNeil, Joey Bart, Jose Butto, Juan Soto, Ke'Bryan Hayes, Luisangel Acuna, Paul Skenes, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Tyrone Taylor I burrowed inside my television early Sunday afternoon, and there it was: Roku, right where I left it. I hadn’t watched it much since last summer when I installed it so I could take in a desultory Mets-Marlins affair because MLB told me it was the only way I could see it. Streaming a game […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Griffin Canning, John DeMarsico, Jose Azocar, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Roku, Steady High, Wometco Home Theater For Cubs fans, Saturday night centered on the successful major league debut of hot pitching prospect Cade Horton. We saw for ourselves what the heat was all about, as Cade made Citi Field hay of just about every Met batter for four innings (the second through fifth) except for one, our own hot prospect of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Cade Horton, Mark Vientos, Mets Third Basemen, Second Chances Hey Mets fans? Which National League teams do you hate? The most common answer is that we hate — in the operatic sports pantomime sense of the word, you understand — the Braves and the Phillies. This is the way of the world, as those two teams are our principal antagonists in the National League East. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Hatred, Jameson Taillon, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Phillies, White Sox On Jay Horwitz’s Amazin’ Conversations podcast this week, Jay reminisces with the SNY booth trio in this, their twentieth year on the mic. The host eventually retells the story of how he first met future color analyst Keith Hernandez…or attempted to meet him. JAY: In June of ’83, Frank Cashen calls me. “Jay, we traded for […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Important Tiebreakers, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Jay Horwitz, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Keith Hernandez, Luisangel Acuna, Picking Up Runners |
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