 
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 gonna be another summer without David Wright. Six to eight weeks of rest, and then they’ll see. If you’re like me, you may have had an odd reaction to the news — a weird argument between head and heart. Head sniffed that a .226 average, bushels of strikeouts and throwing woes at third didn’t seem impossible to […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Wilmer Flores Long night, short turnaround. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off, shall we? In the bottom of the fifth, Steven Matz did something strange: he got his helmet and bat and headed for the on-deck circle, apparently all-business. Which was fine, except his spot in the order wasn’t up — it was several batters away. He wasn’t even close. Matz […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Tyler Saladino Even in Little League I was a no-tool player: completely inept at hitting, catching and throwing. (I could run, but never had any reason to.) The only thing I could do, kind of, was play catcher. To be sure, I couldn’t even do that. There was no stealing in our league and maybe one play at the […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jeurys Familia, Little League, Matt Harvey, Mets Catchers, Rene Rivera It’s an ancient baseball conundrum. No, not “are sacrifice bunts mostly dumb or mostly super-dumb?” And not “is something wrong if you’re giving that many ABs to Eric Campbell?” I mean something even tougher to contemplate and more scarring to one’s inner fan: “would you rather lose meekly, or come back and then lose hideously?” It was […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Chase Utley, Clayton Kershaw, Curtis Granderson, Jeurys Familia I don’t know what’s wrong with Matt Harvey. Neither does Dan Warthen, or Terry Collins, or Sandy Alderson, or Kevin Plawecki, or Matt Harvey himself. The weird thing is, suddenly that’s no longer as important as what happens next, which is that Matt Harvey be made to Go Away. Not so long ago, Harvey had managed to […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Sportswriting Rain in the area, Gio Gonzalez and Bartolo Colon on the mound. One team scored seven. The other team scored one. You remember, right? It was five days ago, just the other side of the Brewers Interregnum. Gio was masterful, except for a cannon shot lined into the stands by Yoenis Cespedes. Bartolo was not masterful. He […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Bartolo Colon, Fans, Gio Gonzalez, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman Greg and I divvy up recap duties by series — most often one series at a time, sometimes two or three. Usually we start by comparing schedules and subtracting evenings on which the world will interfere with baseball-centric life. Sometimes we put our hands up for a game because we’ll be in attendance. And sometimes there are other factors. […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Presley, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera Well, that’s better. Steven Matz was superb, watching a Chris Carter home run in the first and then allowing next to nothing after that. The Mets, meanwhile, didn’t exactly light up Wily Peralta, but they did enough to win and chase the blues away, at least for a night. We’ll return to those blues in a minute. (Of […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz, Wily Peralta From the Better Late Than Never Department: The best thing about Wednesday night’s tilt with the Nationals, from my admittedly parochial perspective? It was getting to talk baseball with my blog partner, something we hadn’t done since the Daniel Murphy Game last October and hadn’t really done then, since at the time we were too busy […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Juan Lagares, Memories, Yoenis Cespedes Now you listen to me! I want trading reopened right now. Get those brokers back in here! Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on! That’s Mortimer Duke at the end of 1983’s Trading Places, after he realizes Louis Winthorpe III and Billy Ray Valentine have ruined him and his brother Randolph in revenge for a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | The Other Carlos Torres, Tony Wolters, Umpires, West Coast Trips |
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