Steven Matz looked all right for a change for four innings Saturday night; looked a little too much like Jonathon Niese in the fifth inning; and never made it out of the sixth. Unlike Niese, the Mets’ latest vexingly underperforming lefty stalwart didn’t blame anybody but himself for his shortfall. He never does. Yoenis Cespedes […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes One of the things I’ve enjoyed about this Mets era — 2015, 2016, 2017 — is the sense that even when these guys aren’t quite playing good ball, they know how to be good ballplayers, particularly good teammates. That probably comes from a proliferation of decent fellas playing the game for a decent interval. Live […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Hansel Robles, Joe Orsulak, Met Debuts, Veteran Presence The Mets can’t beat the Dodgers, the best team in baseball. The Dodgers have been beating everybody regularly, though they’ve looked human against the Braves. The Braves can’t beat the Phillies. The Phillies, particularly at home, can’t beat the Mets. Hey — did we just become the best team in baseball? Pythagoras called and said I’m deriving […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Curtis Granderson, Dom Smith, Fernando Salas, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Mysterious Dominance, Neil Walker, Phillies, Wilmer Flores The season is lost. The Mets are lost. We as Mets fans are lost. A dark forest surrounds us. It is wilderness out there. Who’s going to lead us somewhere worth going? Judging by Wednesday afternoon’s 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Jay Bruce, Rafael Montero, Ryder Ryan, Trades No matter how many ballgames you go to, it is often mentioned, you’ll see something you haven’t seen before. Sure enough, I experienced a plethora of firsts on Tuesday night, which was by no means my first ballgame. Let’s see what I saw that I hadn’t seen previously… • The pat-you-down security guy hassling me about my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Beltre, AJ Ramos, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Chris Flexen, LIRR, Mama's of Corona, Neil Walker, Rangers, Ryan Church, Ryder Chasin Thanks to Baseball Reference, everybody’s an ace researcher today, hence data points that previously only obsessives like me were aware of become instantly disseminated fact. On Sunday night, after the Mets lost to the Dodgers — and I should have a key on my computer that will type out “the Mets lost to the Dodgers” […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, 2017 Mets, Milestones, Over .500, Progress, Records, Team History, Under .500 As the Mets were getting underway Friday night in Flushing, I was situated well north of Citi Field, holding down half of a table at the Annual Sharon Summer Book Signing in Connecticut, a fundraiser for the grand old Hotchkiss Library, founded 124 years ago next month. The other half of the table was occupied […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Connecticut, Dodgers, Excellent Addition to Your Canoeing Library, Hotchkiss Library, Justin Turner, Rich Hill, Sandy Koufax, Seth Lugo, Tug McGraw The Amed Rosario Era commenced Tuesday night in Denver. Also, the Michael Conforto Era, the Steven Matz Era, the Jose Reyes Era and all the other eras on which we blithely bestow the names of the callups whose debuts we breathlessly anticipate continued. We don’t necessarily think of those as eras in progress. The unalloyed […] I’m not the type to carelessly leave a hat on a train, but on Sunday, I apparently carelessly left a hat on a train. I came home, realized I didn’t have it and inferred it rode the LIRR eastbound without me. If I wore hats regularly, I suppose I would have found it on my […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Caps, Comings, Empire State Building, Gerson Bautista, Goings, Jamie Callahan, Lena Russo, Moment of Silence, Stephen Nogosek I really wanted Jacob deGrom to set the Mets record for most consecutive starts with a win, especially once I discovered that such a record exists and that Jake had tied it. I’m keenly aware of many Mets records. Some it’s never occurred to me to commit to memory. Most Consecutive Starts Won lands a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Streaks, Team History, Tom Seaver |
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