 
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, all $430-odd million of them, are a mess. The hitting is anemic. The starting pitching is mediocre. The record is the literal definition of mediocracy. The vibe, not an official stat but readily detectable, is a lot worse than that, with fans increasingly fuming before taking their seats, looking for someone to blame and […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Allan Lans, Austin Gomber, Bill Pulsipher, Daniel Bard, Frustration, Gary Gentry, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Mental Health, Paul Wilson, Rockies, Shea Stadium I know nobody wants to hear it, but Justin Verlander didn’t pitch that badly. Even I don’t particularly want to hear it. I’m up in New England, running around doing nonsense, and so on Thursday afternoon I got MLB At Bat fired up a little late and this was more or less my reaction: Waitaminute, 2-0 already? […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Rodriguez, Frustration, Justin Verlander, Medi, Tigers This recap begins with a confession. Emily and I had tickets for Thursday night’s game, obtained weeks ago in exchange for a smallish charitable contribution. My 2023 debut at Citi Field was nigh, and with it the chance to demonstrate that I was not, in fact, jinxed despite having gone 0 for 2022 as an attendee, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, C.J. Abrams, David Robertson, Jeff McNeil, Jinxes, Joey Lucchesi, Mason Thompson, Nats, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Hunter The good news: The Mets fixed the New York-Presbyterian patch, the one that was unreadable and looked vaguely like an ad for the Phillies, Dunkin’ Donuts or some nightmarish chimera of those two entities. It annoyed Steve Cohen, and when you’re Steve Cohen and you’re annoyed, people hop to it. The other good news: Nope, that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Josiah Gray, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Steve Cohen, Uniforms I don’t remember when the thought first crawled into my brain. It might have been when our starting pitcher had strained his neck watching another ball explore the outermost confines of Oracle Park. Or perhaps it was when said starting pitcher was chasing down a ball caroming between fielders while Giants ran around the bases […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, David Peterson, Frustration, Giants, Jonahs, Marty Noble, Young Pitching Loyalty is strange. Not in the sense of feeling it for men decades younger than me, men I think I know but don’t in any way that matters. Though that’s certainly strange too. No, I was thinking about it in the context of how that loyalty gets transferred when those young men change — sometimes willingly and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kodai Senga, Loyalty, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea, Tristan Beck, Wilmer Flores Meditations on time before and during watching Clayton Kershaw toy with various Mets: The Dodgers are forever. I started watching baseball in earnest in 1976, when I was seven, and learned the game by memorizing the backs of baseball cards, scouring a cinderblock-sized Baseball Encyclopedia, and devouring various books checked out from the Emma S. Clark […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Clayton Kershaw, David Wright, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Eduardo Escobar, Noah Syndergaard, Sentiment, Time It looked like everything had finally come together for the A’s. Not a new stadium without acres upon acres of foul ground, lots of other deficiencies and, well, possums — that’s too much to ask. And not owners more interested in building a winner than in civic extortion — ditto. But good starting pitching and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Brandon Nimmo, Dany Jimenez, David Robertson, Eduardo Escobar, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Pete Alonso, Tony Kemp Baseball is a fine diversion in all its forms, with one of its bedrock pleasures how those forms change day to day. On Friday the Mets inflicted horrors on the A’s and the A’s inflicted horrors on themselves, leading to a 17-6 win unique in the annals of Met scorekeeping and verging on unique for […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Conner Capel, David Robertson, Kevin Smith, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Pitch Clock, Shintaro Fujinami Try to remember that Francisco Alvarez is all of 21. The kid was the last out of Tuesday night’s game against the Padres, batting with the tying run on second. He was facing Josh Hader, whose wildness had gotten him into trouble that inning but arguably served him well against Alvarez. Hader threw two balls to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, David Weathers, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Hader, Padres, Rookies, Ryan Weathers, Xander Bogaerts |
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