For the second night in a row, the Mets lost a one-run game amid a relapse of Narcoleptic Offense Syndrome. On Saturday night the problem was compounded by Noah Syndergaard having an off-night; on Sunday Bartolo Colon was good enough to win, but the Mets’ attack against hyperactive Chris Archer (who must cover at least two […]
 
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 should be said that for the first eight innings that was a dull, lousy game. Seriously. It was like soccer — no action but solo homers, with the Rays seemingly hellbound to one-up us in the Department of Dingers. Grady Sizemore homered (and later took a cheapie away from Wilmer Flores), Juan Uribe matched him, […]  27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Guyer, Juan Uribe, Michael Conforto, Wilmer Flores Super-exciting spine-tingling headline-grabbing narrative-changing straight-to-the-SportsCenter-open wins are great, of course. But the key to playing in October is racking up the more mundane sort of victories. Which is exactly what the Mets did Tuesday night. Of course, only by recent pinch-me standards could the Mets’ 5-1 dispatching of the Marlins be considered dull. Jon Niese pitched […] 63 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric O'Flaherty, Jon Niese, Rafael Montero, Terry Collins I no longer remember the exact circumstances, but years ago there was a newspaper story featuring a Yankee fan who didn’t understand why any franchise would adopt “Ya Gotta Believe” (or one of its non-spontaneous, corporate-approved descendants) as a rallying cry. Terrible slogan, she snorted dismissively: “Believe? That’s lame. We know.” That always struck me as a perfect way to describe the two New York fanbases, because strip […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fans, Hope, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tug McGraw There have been more exhausting 48-hour stretches in the life of a Mets fan — the desperate scramble at the end of the ’99 season comes to mind — but not for a very long time. And perhaps there’s never been such an insane rollercoaster of emotions over so few hours, with euphoria, anger, confusion, despair, and […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Fans, Felipe Rivero, Hope, Jerry Meals, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Tyler Clippard, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes OK, so … Hmm. Umm. Seriously, how the hell do you start? Wednesday night’s game was weird before it began, but we had No Idea. Even before Will Venable headed for the plate to start the top of the first, Twitter was buzzing with rumors: The Mets were close to a deal, and it was for a bat — a […] 101 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fans, Reporters, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trades, Weirdness, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Three days ago, a thrilling game against the Dodgers would have ended a bit differently. Rather than Juan Uribe staring out at Kenley Jansen, it would have been Eric Campbell or Darrell Ceciliani or Johnny Monell or John Mayberry Jr. or someone else we’ve written about more often in sorrow than in celebration. That isn’t fair. Perhaps […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Juan Uribe, Radio, Sandy Alderson, Zack Greinke It’s odd being away from your baseball team for nine games. Not to mention that being six hours ahead of behind the U.S. pretty much takes you out of seeing anything. While I was in Italy night games began at 1 a.m. I caught a couple of innings of the Mets and the Cardinals trudging […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Lucas Duda, Michael Conforto, Michael Cuddyer, Sandy Alderson The Mets, for all the agita surrounding them, went to the other side of a fair continent and returned with a 4-2 trip. That’s not bad. In fact, it’s pretty far from bad. So why are so many Mets fans — most definitely including me — so prone to rending of garments, gnashing of teeth and […] 62 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Michael Cuddyer, Wilpons After two taut wins in LA and San Francisco, it was back to the old boring formula familiar from too many Met losses. And maybe it’s just the late-night abyss that follows a West Coast loss, but your chronicler is left scratching his bald head about what to say. I mean, yeah, Bartolo Colon didn’t help […] |
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