 
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. |
That might have been the dumbest baseball game I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t exactly what any of us expected from Jacob deGrom vs. Carlos Martinez, as neither ace’s location was what it needed to be. The result was basically an Adam West-Burt Ward Batman caper, with the principals milling around for a bit until it was […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Absurdity, Addison Reed, Bill Graham, Cardinals, Carlos Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, John Brebbia, Jose Reyes Can your blogger file his recap within the 24-hour window? Well, with an 11 am start he can. Why was the answer even close to know? Because this was the first game of the season I had no desire whatsoever to recap — which for me is usually a sign that I’ve finally accepted that the competitive part […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Nationals, Prospects, Seth Lugo, T.J. Rivera Some things you have might have missed in Sunday’s oft-snoozy, quietly weird, ultimately dispiriting loss to the Phillies: Rafael Montero wasn’t that bad. Yes, the wheels fell off in the second inning for Montero, who has a history of winding up standing forlornly by the side of the road waiting for a wrecker. But Montero was […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Nick Pivetta, Phillies, Rafael Montero So the Mets played an amazing game Saturday afternoon, with Asdrubal Cabrera hitting the go-ahead home run on the same day fans took home a bobblehead of him connecting for a walkoff home run against the same team last year, and — Wait a second. I’m afraid this post has been flagged for review. Because what you’ve written […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Asdrubal Cabrera, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Strange Events, Ty Kelly, Zack Wheeler The Mets don’t lead the league in much, but they’re at least a wild-card contender in keeping us guessing, having concluded their road trip with a Rorschach record of 5-5. That’s five to go in the They Rebounded From Getting Blitzed and Got Themselves Together on the Road So There’s Hope column (you may label this one differently, of course), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Bruce, JT Riddle, Matt Reynolds, Seth Lugo, Storytelling, T.J. Rivera Thank goodness for Monday’s off-day, for it gave us another 24 hours to test the limits of mathematical optimism. Once the Mets were no longer playing the 2017 Giants, our dreams of seeing them ascend to contention were revealed for what they were and the audacity of hope crashed headfirst into the inevitability of nope. And, for approximately the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Young, JT Riddle, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Neil Ramirez, Wilmer Flores Can we play the Giants for the rest of the year? Let’s be clear about something: the Mets’ three-game sweep of San Francisco doesn’t mean they’re suddenly good. They’re just better than the Giants, for whom “can’t get out of their own way” would be a kind assessment. The Giants are having a once-in-several-generations cratering of […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Bradford, Curtis Granderson, Giants, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera Timing really is everything. My kid and I got on a plane to Iceland a few minutes after the end of the Mets’ victory over the Cubs and returned a few hours before the first of their check-for-pulse efforts against the Dodgers. While overseas and four hours down the clock, I checked in on our stalwarts […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Baseball Cards, Gregg Jefferies, Jose Reyes, The Holy Books One of the ads in regular Mets rotation right now is for rebranded cable company Spectrum, and features a pair of monsters under a little girl’s bed during the night. One monster is honked off about fees for some Spectrum competitor (I can’t remember which, because I don’t care) and complaining tendentiously and loudly about this […] Jacob deGrom was good. He was really good. Not so long ago, this wouldn’t have been a surprising thing to write. But it’s been a surprising season, to put it mildly. The key to deGrom’s successful night was that he reintroduced his change-up to complement his fastball. In the postgame debrief, DeGrom passed along analysis from Dan Warthen that […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Yoenis Cespedes |
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