 
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. |
X-rays were negative but he may not play Friday. He’s day-to-day, which in these parts is known as foreshadowing with a side of foreboding. Cue the uneasy minor-key music, buckle up, and if you’re a believer, say a prayer for Lagares. Well, this doesn’t seem so funny any more. Juan Lagares likely out for the season with […] Absent a perfect, um, storm of unfortunate factors, Wednesday’s matinee would never have been played. It was a miserable day in New York, a gloomy, continuous soak. But the Mets and Blue Jays had only two scheduled meetings here, and while the Mets had an off-day Thursday, the Jays did not. That left both clubs out […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Absurdity, Blue Jays, Buddy Baumann, J.A. Happ, Juan Lagares, Kevin Pillar, Rain, Zack Wheeler The plan was a good one: head down to Philadelphia for Saturday’s night game, for which friends had sweet tickets through a work event. I was excited to see Noah Syndergaard, our pals, the Mets, and to get another look at Citizens Bank Park, which back in the last years of Shea opened my eyes […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Asdrubal Cabrera, Buddy Baumann, Edubray Ramos, Ghosts, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Josh Lewin, Paul Sewald, Radio, Rainouts The Mets, who started out some long-gone season 11-1, are back to being the same shambling disaster we’ve come to know all too well. Sudden, unexpected injuries to key players? Check. Nagging, thoroughly expected injuries to other key players? Check. Nagging injuries to key players with no corresponding DL stint, ensuring those maladies become something worse? Check. Playing time […] The Mets played a baseball game in Cincinnati Monday night — and, for the first time in eight days, ended the night as winners. That’s the unalloyed good news. The rest, well, it’s a matter of perspective. The Mets hit the baseball with authority, something they hadn’t done in quite some time. Michael Conforto — who may […] So were you doing your job this time, or is this another fake recap where you use fancy writing to dress up the fact that you only watched half an inning? This time around I listened to half an inning while in a rental car on the way to Logan Airport. Does that answer your question? It […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fantasy Baseball, Hansel Robles, Ian Desmond, Noah Syndergaard, P.J. Conlon Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz Remember when the Mets were good? Our once-promising team is now thoroughly rooted in all-time last place, behind such worthies as the 2018 Baltimore Orioles, the 1962 Mets, the 1875 Brooklyn Atlantics and the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. That seemingly pretty decent 17-12 record? An illusion born of sabermetrics or some other newfangled defacement of the grand […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Freddie Freeman, Jason Vargas, Matt Harvey, Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuna Jr. Let’s enjoy the good part first: Noah Syndergaard was unbelievable. It was clear from the first inning that he had no-hit stuff, which considering Syndergaard doesn’t believe in walks means perfect-game stuff. Every pitch was working, particularly the change-up, against which Cardinal batters had no chance. You could see weary resignation in their faces every time […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Defense, Juan Lagares, Noah Syndergaard, Tommy Pham, Vexing Losses Who the heck are the 2018 Mets, anyway? The most obvious answer is that they’re 15-7, which is pretty damn good. But they sure didn’t look 15-7 during Wednesday night’s ghastly loss. They sure haven’t looked like that for a solid two weeks now, in fact. Wednesday night’s game will be dealt with succinctly, out of a […] |
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