Let’s go back to the top of the sixth Monday night, with the Mets facing the eternally irritating Marlins at a cheerfully rambunctious Citi Field. With the game tied at 1-1, two outs and runners on first and third, Derek Dietrich popped up a 1-1 pitch from Sean Gilmartin. It drifted over the Marlins’ dugout, where David […]
 
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. |
 28 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Fans, Pennant Race, Travis d'Arnaud Noah Syndergaard had just finished retiring 19 of his last 20 batters faced and was sitting in the visiting dugout in Atlanta, perhaps thinking about his ninth win of the season. Tyler Clippard was on the mound, squinting in at Travis d’Arnaud with that little lip curl of his, trying to navigate through some wildness. […] 46 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Brooklyn Cyclones, Fans, Ghosts, Kelly Johnson, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Stauffer, Tyler Clippard When the Mets and Braves finally squared off in front of nobody Thursday night, I found myself watching with the intensity I normally bring to a split-squad game in mid-March. I had to remind myself that, hey, this one counts — in fact, it’s pretty damn important. I wasn’t being arrogant — I remember late leads that seemed plump […] My pal Will likes to strip away the sepia Valhalla folderol around baseball and replace it with a simple rule: “When my team wins, I am happy, and when they lose, I am sad.” Pretty much. But there are degrees of happy and sad. There’s the sad of losing a ho-hum game in August when you’re a dozen games […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Comebacks, Drew Storen, Joy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Matt Williams, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes For one night, not even the biggest Terry Collins hater could quibble with his bullpen management. Has Bartolo Colon ever been better in a Met uniform? He simply throttled the Marlins in recording the Mets’ first complete game of the year, even contributing a highlight-of-forever play by flipping a ball behind his back to Eric Campbell, […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Boras Tuesday night’s game … oof. Let’s rip this Band-Aid off quickly: Jonathon Niese was terrible. Despite that, the Mets turned a 6-0 Phillies lead into a 6-4 contest. Enter Bobby Parnell, who combined with Eric O’Flaherty and Carlos Torres to allow eight runs in the inning — “a snowman,” as Keith Hernandez put it repeatedly. And that […] 81 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Eric O'Flaherty, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Pennant Race, Terry Collins There has to be some Mets fan out there who was called away during the bottom of the fifth and then had something to do in the top of the ninth. If so, sorry man — because the rest of Monday night’s game was about as snoozy as it gets. There’s something to be said for a lack […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jeff Francoeur, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto When it happened I was sad. Michael Cuddyer had been having such a good game. You know Michael Cuddyer. The Mets’ free-agent acquisition of the offseason, who became an instant Rorschach test for the fanbase. On the one hand, he cost money and was a former batting champ, which indicated a certain seriousness of purpose by […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Ortiz, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard Five weeks ago, if the Mets had been down 5-0 I would’ve found something better to do with my time. But that was five weeks ago, and that team that no longer exists. Tonight, when the Mets fell five runs behind, I figured they’d come back and was curious how they’d do it. It’s remarkable — it’s as […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Sean Gilmartin The Mets won. That, as always, is the big thing. On Monday night they won by clubbing balls into the stratosphere, delivering a 14-run beatdown that turned a 7-2 deficit into a 16-7 rout. Tuesday night was different. The Mets got off to a fast start, with a Yoenis Cespedes homer making the score 2-0 before most of […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Hansel Robles, Jeanmarie Gomez, Jeff Francouer, Jeurys Familia, Larry Bowa, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Clippard, Unwritten Rules |
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