 
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. |
I remembered that the Mets had taken part in the Little League Classic before, though in my recollection they’d been walloped by the Phillies, which is further evidence that this woeful baseball summer has been bad for my mental health: In fact, back in 2018 it was the Mets who did the walloping. Maybe it was […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Little League Classic, Mariners, Mark Vientos, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers You might grab a nap. You might grab a shower. You might grab one of your top prospects and send him to the mound in front of the home folks to make his major league debut and watch him succeed. There are plenty of ways to feel refreshed. The Nolan McLean version proved most effective Saturday. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Denehy, Confidence, Dick Rusteck, First Starts, First Wins, Mennen Skin Bracer, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Steven Matz, Team History The best chance for Mets fans to enjoy some happy days rather than endure more dog days as mid-August inevitably commences shedding summer will appear on the Citi Field mound this afternoon when Nolan McLean makes his major league debut. I was going to call it his hotly anticipated major league debut, but it’s almost […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Mariners, Nolan McLean, Pratt & McClain, Rock Bottom, Ryan Helmsley, Sean Manaea, SuperBullpen, Tyler Rogers, Urban Myth Different night, same three-legged stool of suck. Kodai Senga worked into the sixth, which is the Mets starting pitcher equivalent of a complete game these days. Into the sixth, but not out of it — let’s not go crazy, folks. Was that better than Senga has been? Yes. Was that better than Mets starters in general […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Braves, Kodai Senga, Raisel Iglesias, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers Perhaps the only good thing about Wednesday night’s belated loss to the Braves was that I found it hard to take it personally. I imagine it isn’t fun to watch from the root cellar as a tornado reduces the house to kindling. But I also imagine one doesn’t feel singled out to be in the path […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Collapses, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Justin Hagenman, Marcell Ozuna, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte It throbbed. It pulsated. It got down with the beat, not to mention the Bear. It lit up like crazy, so much so that they shot off every last firework within reach. Maybe this is what the Ritchie Family was referring to in 1976 when they paid homage to the best disco in town. Citi Field […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Home Run History, Home Runs, Milestones, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Team History Although the architecture for this blog indicates it remains dedicated to the New York Mets, we have changed the format for today to a blog dedicated to our new favorite team, the Milwaukee Brewers. See, we don’t wish to think about the Mets any longer, but we don’t mind thinking about some other baseball team, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Brewers, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Isaac Collins, Joey Ortiz, Joy, Quinn Priester, Tailgating, William Contreras The Mets were playing the Brewers Saturday night. I had recap. I went to see “Superman” with my family — a movie I’d already seen. I did that because I’d reached the point where I can’t stand this team, which right now combines a deep-rooted cruddiness with a magnetic attraction to disaster. Knowing they’ll find a way to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Eric Chavez, Francisco Lindor, Jeremy Barnes, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Steve Cohen, William Contreras Starling Marte got a good lead off second, had a good jump as soon as Jeff McNeil singled into center, took a good route around third, sped home at a good rate, and made a good slide toward the plate. He did everything well on the two-out play intended to tie the Mets-Brewers game in […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Edged in Every Way, Goofy Lineup Suggestion, Jeff McNeil, Kodai Senga, Losing Streak, Starling Marte I greeted Juan Soto’s bottom-of-the-ninth solo home run with more enthusiasm than Juan Soto greets extra-base hits he has to gather and fire back into the infield, which is to say with minimal enthusiasm. Until he ended Gavin Williams’s no-hit bid Wednesday afternoon, I’d allowed myself to almost root for the no-hitter to happen. Almost. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gavin Williams, Juan Soto, No-Hit Bids, Nothing |
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