 
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. |
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 All the Mets wanted from Logan Verrett was two things. The first was for him to not be Matt Harvey for a day. The second was for him to do more or less what Jon Niese did on Saturday — keep the pain to a moderate level and let the bats do their work. I’m the first to answer the bell […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Blackmon, David Hale, Dustin Garneau, Hansel Robles, Jose Reyes, Juan Uribe, Logan Verrett, Rockies I’m not sure what game the Mets and Rockies were playing out there in Denver, but it sure didn’t look much like baseball. “Playing pinball,” Keith Hernandez blurted on a night he seemed alternately entertained and horrified by the bloodletting down there on the field. That’s pretty close, I suppose. Still, whatever the game was, I’m glad the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Coors Field, Curtis Granderson, Replay, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes For whatever reason, that game had loss written all over it the moment Jonathan Schoop hit Noah Syndergaard‘s worst pitch of the night over the fence. The Mets kept whacking away at the Orioles, but Syndergaard was gone (nearly 100 pitches on a soppingly hot night) and the bullpen was doing bullpen things, and you […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Hansel Robles, Noah Syndergaard The good: A night after making solid contact but coming up short, Michael Conforto showed why he merits all the excitement, mashing a rising line drive off Charlie Morton that hissed over the fence above the Mo’s Zone. (Not sure it’s still called that; quite sure I don’t care.) That tied the game at 3 and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Davidson, Charlie Morton, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes In the early innings Thursday I tweeted out what I hoped would be reassuring counsel to Mets fans unhappy that we weren’t going to sweep four from the Rockies without a fair amount of work: Noah’s gonna be great, but he’s awfully young and still has some lumps to take. Even Norse gods need to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Young Pitching Citi Field is loud, and it’s wonderful. I reflexively started to type “loud again,” then stopped myself. Because that wouldn’t have been true. Citi never has been loud. This is the first run of games in which the crowd is a factor, in which the buzz is focused on the field and the players are aware of […] |
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