 
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. |
It generally happens this way: A team that can’t get out of its own way finally gets out of its own way, and in the aftermath you’re left blinking in surprise and wondering, “What was so hard about that?” Not that the Mets made it easy from the jump on Saturday. Bryce Harper connected for a […] A lot of signals emerge from a season that’s cratered, and as a veteran Mets fan, I have enough experience with craters to have grown familiar with them. Last night’s 2-1 loss to the Phillies, the maiden voyage of the SS Andy Green, brought another jolt of recognition: Ah yes, it’s the loss that somehow […] The email came from a work colleague: We’re planning our annual Mets outing, please RSVP. My instinctive response: Oh God, do I have to? That’s where this death march of a season has brought us: A free ticket to a Mets game feels like a burden. The Mets have gone from confounding to infuriating and finally to the […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Craig Counsell, Cubs, Embarrassment, Juan Soto, Kidcaster, Kodai Senga, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Replay Review, SNY I was right to be wary of Bryce Harper after a lousy game Thursday: BOOM Harper hit for the cycle. It’s always a good call to be wary of Kyle Schwarber: BOOM two home runs in the third inning alone, 913 feet worth of pain, and then a homer to a more mortal distance later on. […] Welcome to a sunny Friday without a baseball game, which is so weird that I know that come early evening I’ll be poking at my TV remote in consternation until I remember: “Oh yeah, stupid World Cup.” At least that gives us extra time (see what I did there) to marvel at the Mets’ 6-4 win […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Aaron Nola, Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, Bryce Harper, Devin Williams, Eric Wagaman, Foul Balls, Gil Hodges, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Alvarado, Juan Soto, Justin Crawford, Kyle Schwarber, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Phillies, Sean Manaea, Wind Well, they didn’t lose 12-0. Nope, on Tuesday night the Mets fell behind 4-0 in the first, but then won the rest of the game 3-1, which is a roundabout way of saying they lost 5-3. Kodai Senga somehow only gave up two hits over four innings, but those two hits came in the form of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Futility, Injuries, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Reds, Ron Darling, Sean Manaea A few hours before the Knicks turned New York City into the world’s largest block party, the Mets lost a humdrum game against the Braves by the told-you-it-was-humdrum score of 3-1. To be fair, the biggest positive of the game was actually worth noting: Sean Manaea got the start and turned in six effective innings, a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Braves, Droughts, Eli White, Juan Soto, Knicks, Martin Perez, Michael Harris II, Replay Review, Rick Sweet, Sean Manaea, Umpires Hey, from my perspective the Mets looked great Wednesday night. Perhaps that’s because I was on the East River in a kayak for the opening innings, went out to get pizza once I got home, and then watched the Knicks given how things were going. End result: I watched the game for about six minutes and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Jonathan Pintaro Just the other day the Mets rode some goodwill across the country from San Diego, goodwill that lingered through an off-day in which the Knicks took up all the city’s oxygen anyway, but was still ready to be tapped at Citi Field on a lovely Tuesday night. Well, so much for that. The Mets squandered all that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Cardinals, David Stearns, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Jett Williams, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien Emily and I were up in Massachusetts for our high-school reunion and so missed both the good vibes of Friday night’s game and the disappointment of Saturday’s clunker. Plus we drove up Thursday night, which was an off-day, spent by the Mets in their usual posture of wandering the West Coast. Even in a season that’s […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Carson Benge, Freddy Fermin, Jared Young, MJ Melendez, Padres, Sean Manaea |
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