My whole life as a sports fan, I’ve seen teams seek “Wild Card” spots in playoffs and understood Wild Card to mean “not a division winner,” without ever really stopping to think of the term’s implication away from sports. To be certain I had it straight, I went to the dictionary (well, a dictionary site) […]
 
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 |  Chris Devenski, David Peterson, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Unknown, Unpredictable On the day Jonah Tong was born — Thursday, June 19, 2003 — the Mets lost 5-1 to the Marlins at Soilmaster Stadium. Mike Bacsik gave up an early three-run homer to Mike Lowell, things got worse in the fifth, and a dreary game eventually expired. I’m sure I was watching and also glad I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Eury Perez, Jason Phillips, Javier Sanoja, Joey Wiemer, Jonah Tong, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Marlins, Mike Glavine, Mike Pelfrey, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tim Lincecum, Tyler Zuber, Unicorn Scores, Vance Wilson The carnival left town and the circus arrived hot on its heels. From fun and festive and knocking down the Phillies to win valuable prizes, to foolish and floundering and getting spritzed by the Marlins, your New York Mets stumbled to a 7-4 loss Thursday night. Three-run defeat? Seemed like more. Three errors committed? Seemed like a […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anticipation, Errors, Least Greatest Show on Earth, Marlins “My Girl” you know about — the singalong that accompanies Francisco Lindor‘s ABs is a new tradition that’s all the sweeter for its organic origins and the Mets having sense enough to stay out of the way. But the crowd at Citi Field wasn’t satisfied with augmenting the Temptations. They did the honors on “Take Me […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Schwarber, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Sweeps, Taijuan Walker, Tanner Banks, Trea Turner “Show a little faith! There’s magic in the night!” That’s one of Bruce Springsteen’s best-known exhortations, a commandment for wavering lovers, teetering dreamers and yes, fans of oddly underwhelming baseball fans. But until Tuesday night, it had largely fallen flat where the 2025 Mets were concerned. Until Tuesday night, but not forever. Game two of the seven-game, two-city […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Bryce Harper, Carlos Mendoza, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, Jesus Luzardo, Jhoan Duran, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Orion Kerkering, Parabolic Microphones, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Ryan Helsley, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Willie Traynor Some nights, you just know. On Monday night, I just knew the Mets were headed to defeat as they fell behind almost immediately, which is to say some nights, you just think you know. I thought and knew it didn’t look good as Kodai Senga endured his customary first-inning struggles, and not even the redoubtable glove […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dusty Wathan, Jose Castillo, Luis Torrens, Parabolic Mictophones, Zen It’s a basic rule that you cannot, in fact, win ’em all. It’s also a common error as a baseball fan to forget this bedrock truth. It sure felt like the Mets would win ’em all, or at least this next quantum in the set, when Mark Vientos blasted an early two-run homer off Bryce Elder to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Cedric Mullins, David Peterson, Gregory Soto, Jurickson Profar, Mark Vientos, Tyrone Taylor Clay Holmes pitched into the seventh inning Saturday night and pitched well. Just three hits and two walks allowed. If Clay wasn’t showing the transcendent stuff of Nolan McLean from Friday night, he came close enough; going deep and being effective must be contagious. Relievers Gregory Soto, Tyler Rogers, and Edwin Diaz stoked no tension […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Active Animus, Finishing Ahead of the Braves, Rare Pleasures, Seething Resentments, Team History The Mets in their entire history have as many wins by the score of 12-7 as Nolan McLean has wins by any score in his week-old career. The franchise required 64 seasons and a leaky bullpen to post a second win of exactly this kind, while each milestone for their newest starting pitcher appears to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Matt Harvey, Nolan McLean, Overreaction, T#m Gl@v!ne, That Certain Something, Tom Seaver, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores Midway through Thursday afternoon’s Mets-Nationals game, about the time I suspected Washington’s overcoming of New York’s lead was not going to be reversible, I remembered the Nationals used to be the Expos. It’s not as if I’d wholly forgotten from whence the Nationals moved following the 2004 season, it’s just that the Quebec connection long […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cedric Mullins, Expos, Lack of Momentum, Nationals, Natspos, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Solo Home Runs, Tyler Rogers |
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