 
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. |
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 Honestly, even without considering the lateness of the hour, a big picture of Noah Syndergaard would be more eloquent than whatever I’ll be able to come up with. Because sometimes Syndergaard defies description. Wednesday night’s pitching line might not look like ace-level Syndergaard — the swing-and-a-miss stuff wasn’t quite there — but that’s deceptive. Syndergaard was hitting 100 […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Kenta Maeda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting I guess it’s just something about San Diego. Tonight’s Mets game wasn’t that much less stressful than Sunday’s — in fact, it followed the same approximate blueprint — but whereas yesterday I was finger-crossing and pleading while urging Antonio Bastardo on from a continent away, tonight I was sprawled on my couch, occasionally losing track of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Chase Utley, Dodgers, Jim Henderson, Steven Matz, West Coast Trips A day after Bartolo Colon shocked and delighted the baseball world, it seemed somehow anticlimactic for the Mets to be expected to go out and do something as mundane as win a game. It would have been fitting if Major League Baseball had declared Sunday a national holiday. It would have been fine — as I suggested in moderate jest […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Bastardo, Birthdays, Derek Norris, Eric Campbell, Families, Howie Rose, Jon Jay, Matt Harvey, Padres, Todd Radom If you’re ever in San Diego, definitely take in a game at Petco Park. I’ve been a couple of times, and it’s an underrated stadium. Petco has good food (the fish tacos in particular); some winning departures from the standard New Ballpark sample book, such as the white and buff colors and hanging gardens; the grassy hill […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Fernando Rodney, Frustration, Padres, Petco Park, Replay, West Coast Trips |
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