 
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 hated the fact that on Saturday night the Mets lost to the Diamondbacks, 2-1. I hated that the Mets lost largely because they’ve once again forgotten how to hit. Brett Baty drove in Marcus Semien with a double in the second inning, and if you reached back to Friday night’s 10th inning uprising you might […] It’s a baseball rule: Things get weird in Denver. Imagine you were a Rockies fan who followed the schedule and dutifully showed up at the start time indicated for each game of your team’s three-game set against the Mets. (And why wouldn’t you, after seeing the Rockies whoop up on the Mets back in Queens?) Monday? Guess […] The Mets beat the Angels (!) Sunday afternoon to take the series (!!), looking impressive in all aspects of the game in doing so. And, as is usually the case when a team that’s been struggling unstruggles, the reaction was, “Gee, was that so hard?” (Well, my other reaction was “Fuck you, Kurt Suzuki,” but I […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angels, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Carson Benge, Clay Holmes, Kurt Suzuki, Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, MJ Melendez Through five innings Friday night, the Mets were in a familiar place in Anaheim, one that seemed straightforward to write about even though I really, really didn’t want to. They were down 3-0 to the Angels and the relatively unheralded Walbert Urena, and they looked like a team in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bo Bichette, Brent Suter, Brooks Raley, Chase Silseth, Christian Scott, Comebacks, David Wright, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Jorge Soler, Jose Fermin, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Ronny Mauricio, Steve Gelbs, Walbert Urena David Peterson was bad and then OK and then bad again and then had a chance to give the karmic wheel another shove: Mets down two in the fourth, bases loaded, James Wood at the plate, 0-2 count. The 0-2 part was positive considering Peterson has been mashed by lefties and you could argue he shouldn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Slater, David Peterson, Ludicrously Bad Baseball, Nationals, Rain, Sean Manaea I went to my first Mets game of the 2026 season Friday night, and honestly I should have known that was a bad idea. “No April baseball” is a sensible rule, one I chose to ignore. I layered — boy howdy were there a lot of layers — and it was still cold. Feet like blocks […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Bo Bichette, Cap Bingo, Carson Benge, Double Plays, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Lorenzen, Rockies With two outs in the ninth and the Mets up by a skinny run, the Twins’ Brooks Lee slapped a ball into the hole, to the right of fill-in shortstop Bo Bichette. Bichette made a nice play to corral it, threw across his body with everything he had … but no, Lee had beaten it […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Lee, Byron Buxton, Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, James Outman, Juan Soto, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Tim Leiper, Twins On Saturday I had nothing to do with the 2026 New York Mets, and honestly it was the nicest day I’d experienced in some time. Oh, Emily and I kept it Mets-adjacent: We spent the afternoon in the stands at Maimonides Park on one of those “nice in the sun” early spring days, watching the Brooklyn […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Craig Kimbrel, Cubs, David Peterson, David Stearns, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Losing Streaks, Luke Weaver, Michael Conforto, MJ Melendez, Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong Nolan McLean keeps getting better and better — but not even he can escape the Mets. In just his 12th start as a big leaguer (!!!), McLean was nicked for a first-inning run but looked sparkling after that, making the best team in baseball look downright silly for the rest of a long night at Dodger […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Vesia, Brooks Raley, Dodgers, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Jacob deGrom, Kyle Tucker, Noah Syndergaard, Nolan McLean, Pitchers Hitting, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Not having grown up a Yankees fan, I always thought that as a broadcaster, well, Phil Rizzuto sure was a Yankee legend. But Rizzuto had a bit of scorekeeping shorthand that I always loved for its combination of honesty and puckishness: WW, which stood for “Wasn’t Watching.” I thought of the Scooter in the bottom of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Joey Gerber, Late Night West Coast Games, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Pham |
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