 
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. |
The Mets’ losing streak is over — and so, as it happens, is mine. I went 0 for 2022. Every time I attended a Mets game they lost the damn thing, including two playoff games. The only time they won a game for which I held a ticket was Closing Day, and I bailed out of […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Citi Field, Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, Phillies, Ranger Suarez Even in this age of humidors, Coors Field still produces games like Saturday night’s, with hits raining down like artillery, big leads proving smaller than they look on paper, a starting pitcher who’s been effective elsewhere left gasping for air, and relievers sawing the bullpen phone off the wall and hiding in that weird little […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connect, Coors Field, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Justin Verlander, Nolan Jones, Rockies, Starling Marte The Rockies has somehow now been around for 30 years. I was at their first-ever game, which they lost to the Mets at Shea. I watched them beat the Mets behind Dante Bichette in extras at Coors Field’s christening. Since then I’ve seen the Mets play at Coors far too often for my liking. I’ve […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Coors Field, Eduardo Escobar, Max Scherzer, Mike Moustakas, Nolan Jones, Rockies After five days of electric baseball, the Mets once again look like someone pulled the plug out of the wall. At least — and those are never good words to see up high in a recap — this time they didn’t look flat enough to slip under a door, the way they did in the opener […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Marcus Stroman, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Starling Marte, Wrigley Field I was in Boston this weekend for my niece’s med-school graduation, which meant the Mets took a back seat to family doings. But not much of a back seat, seeing how it was me and all — the Mets went about their business in my ear, via GameDay and my watch face, on my phone […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baby Mets, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Guardians, Howie Rose, Jose Ramirez, Justin Verlander, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred, Shane Bieber, Starling Marte For most of Wednesday night, my only thought was that feeling pain because of the Mets was actually progress: better writhing in agony than sitting dour and numb watching another night of bad baseball, as we have for the last three and a half weeks. Kodai Senga was the best he’s looked as a Met, with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Comebacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Hope, Jose Siri, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Pete Fairbanks, Rays, Rookies, Walkoffs The Mets said all the right things after getting beaten by the Rays 8-5 on Tuesday night in a game that was not nearly as close as the final score suggests. Justin Verlander talked about understanding the fans’ frustration and about how the players were frustrated too and about needing to work hard. Buck Showalter […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Drew Smith, Frustration, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Rays, Starling Marte A confounding Mets season took another confounding turn Monday afternoon, when the team followed up Sunday’s burst of offensive competence (counterpoint, maybe the Nationals decided to experiment and do Whip-Its between innings) by once again looking like an outfit with zero resemblance to a professional baseball team. Going into Monday, you might have said, “Well, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Frustration, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Ronny Mauricio, What a Terrible Team The important thing: The Mets actually won. The less important thing: The Mets barely won a thoroughly strange, confounding game against the Nationals, one that left you without much confidence that any kind of worm has turned in any direction one would want a worm to turn. (If you’ve ever wondered, that strange turn [ahem] of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carl Edwards Jr., Counterintuitive Wins, David Robertson, Drew Smith, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Lindor, Mackenzie Gore, Nationals, Pete Rose, Three-Run Singles, Tug McGraw, Tylor Megill The Mets have been both bad and unwatchable for the better part of two weeks, so Tuesday night counted as progress: They were watchable. Watchable, as they fought back after being put in a deep hole by David Peterson, Stephen Nogosek, and (one could argue) the umpiring crew, which missed a ball headed for Francisco Lindor‘s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, David Peterson, Ejections, Francisco Alvarez, Frustration, Losing, Mark Canha, Reds, Stephen Nogosek, Wil Myers |
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