 
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’s not quite “LFGM” — that was both snappier and happier — but Pete Alonso added to his book of quotations once Thursday night’s game against the Cubs had mercifully ended, telling the assembled scribes that “getting swept feels like eating a shit sandwich, to be honest with you.” I can’t say and I hope the […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cubs, I Hate Baseball, Javier Baez, Joey Lucchesi, Kevin Pillar, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Quotes, Sean Reid-Foley, Sweeps I love J.D. Davis, from his weirdo back-construction nickname (“Jonathan Gregory Davis” doesn’t obviously suggest “J.D. Davis,” but “Jonathan Davis” plus a little repetition does) and his shrill heckling to his postgame manic episodes and general air of just being tickled to play baseball. But a thinking J.D. Davis is his own worst enemy. I’ll paint […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Eric Sogard, J.D. Davis, John Libka, Strike Zones, Taijuan Walker, Umpires, Wrigley Field Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Coors Field, Discontent, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Gary DiSarcina, German Marquez, Jacob deGrom, Jonathan Villar, Rockies, Rule Changes, Strikeouts I was uneasy about Wednesday night, as if the shadow of the past was reaching out for the Mets. It started with news that Jed Lowrie is alive and well and back in Oakland, perfectly ambulatory and hitting home runs now that his knee has been surgically repaired. It turns out, in whatever the opposite […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Hope, James McCann, Jed Lowrie, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler That’s the way Keith says it, a remnant of his California roots that’s one of his more endearing quirks, and a label worth plastering all over Saturday’s matinee against the Marlins. Jacob deGrom needed just nine pitches — all strikes — to take down the Marlins in the top of the first, blitzed through the first […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Jacob deGrom, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Keith Hernandez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Trevor Rogers If a team starts the season 1-1, the third game is a Rorschach test. It usually determines whether you’ve won or lost your first series. It always determines whether you’re 2-1 or 1-2. It’s undeniably true that the third game also determines whether your winning percentage will be .667, which is the stuff of awestruck recollections […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Jacob Barnes, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Michael Conforto, Small Sample Sizes Well, those were some complicated feelings to open with. Your capsule summary: Jacob deGrom was terrific, the Mets’ offense looked like the kind of patient, relentless machine that will chew opponents up, and the team even played some solid defense. Well, until the offense whiffed on multiple knockout blows, deGrom departed having thrown just 77 pitches, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Trevor May So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books You remember where you were for the truly big trades that reorder a franchise, the ones that you know are lines between before and after. The winter day when I saw in the newspaper that Gary Carter, the ebullient yet tough-as-nails All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos, was coming to the Mets. The summer afternoon spent eyeing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Hope, Indians, Isaiah Greene, Josh Wolf, Ownership, Steve Cohen, Trades A Met for All Seasons began as an idea and an email exchange in which your Faith and Fear authors swapped picking seasons and players who’d suited up for the Mets during that season, players who were emblematic of Mets history for a decade or a year or maybe just a few minutes. That email exchange […] |
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