 
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. |
So if Jason Vargas pitches well — and I mean “pitches well,” without any ironic amplification, subtle disparagement or other snobby little digs — and the Mets lose anyway, what sound does a Met fan make at 1 in the morning? If you’re me, it’s a long, drawn-out sigh. Vargas pitched well. Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched better. Ryu […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Hyun-Jin Ryu, J.D. Davis, Jason Vargas, Pete Alonso, Umpiring As Wednesday night’s game became Thursday morning’s game, the storyline seemed pretty clear — clear enough that I scribbled some notes for myself to peruse around now. Let’s see if I can decipher them: No aces And in a […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Debacles, Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Losses, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Todd Frazier On the one hand, the Mets have made the lowly Detroit Tigers into world-beaters, opponents every bit as formidable as, say, the Miami Marlins. Can’t we just play the Nationals 162 times a year? On the other, both of these games have been a lot of fun, filled with twists and turns and chills and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Creative Managing, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Hector Santiago, JaCoby Jones, Jason Vargas, Managers, Mickey Callaway, Ryan Carpenter, Tigers, Tomas Nido, Wilson Ramos Before all the heroics — which we will revel in a couple of paragraphs down, I promise you — the Mets and Nationals played a rather odd baseball game. Max Scherzer pitched six innings, the last of them on fumes, throwing 109 pitches and giving up no runs. Jacob deGrom pitched six innings, the last of them […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Eaton, Adeiny Hechavarria, Bad Relief Pitching, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Met Debuts, Nationals, Rajai Davis, Ryan Blakney, Sean Doolittle, Umpires The Mets took the field Monday night having lost five in a row, three to the lowly Miami Marlins, and the portents were not good. Brodie Van Wagenen gave one of those sound-and-fury “full support for the manager” press conferences that make you even more convinced someone’s going to get fired; revealed the surprising, confounding […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Communications, Drew Gagnon, Mickey Callaway, Patrick Corbin, Robinson Cano, Wilmer Font You know the story of Scheherazade, right? The Persian Empire’s ruler, angry to discover his wife had been unfaithful, decided to safeguard what he regarded as his royal prerogative by taking a virgin bride each night, beheading her in the morning, and replacing her with a new spouse. One imagine he would have run out […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, Managers, Mickey Callaway For the life of me I can’t figure this Mets team out. They’re built in a slapdash manner, with wildly optimistic Plan As and aw-shucks shrugs for Plan Bs. They can’t field. The hitting, relief and even the vaunted starting pitching are all inconsistent, lighting up and then going dark and making you want to bang […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Jacob deGrom, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Pete Alonso As Wilmer Font unraveled around 8 p.m. and Mets Twitter started shooting off typography puns, I promised that by 11 p.m. I’d have figured out a Comic Sans joke. But here it is past 1 a.m. and the title of this post is the closest you’re going to get. Have at it in the comments […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Drew Gagnon, Starting Pitching, Wilmer Font The Mets beat the Marlins Saturday night, and while they didn’t score eight in the first — or eight at all — it was a pretty convincing victory. The headline was that Jacob deGrom looked like his old self once again: On Saturday he carved the Marlins up for the first three innings with a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Alonso, Sandy Alcantara Friday night’s game was an Earl Weaver special — the Mets scored eight times in the first, then slowly pulled away. It was one of those games you think you’d want every night, because who doesn’t like a laugher that reveals itself as such within the first half an hour? In reality, though, you wouldn’t. […] |
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