Pete Alonso didn’t hesitate after the final frustrating game of a frustrating season ultimately torpedoed by frustrating losses. He was asked if he planned to exercise the opt-out clause in his contract in order to test the open market, and he said yes. Edwin Diaz wasn’t quite so quick on the withdraw; he’d have to […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Business, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Fun, Most Valuable Met, Performance, Pete Alonso The Mets didn’t play ball in October, and I learned to be OK with that, despite dedicating my waking hours from late March through late September to their ultimately insufficient quest to play ball in October. Maturity being what it is, I grew distant enough from the grating, granular shortfalls of the 2025 season to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Postseason, Blue Jays, Diner, Dodgers, World Series, World Series Ending Symptomatic of the proliferation of Interleague scheduling, the Mets opened their home season against the Toronto Blue Jays this past April, winning three straight. It was fun in the moment, even if the moment didn’t portend anything special for the 2025 Mets in the long run. It also didn’t indicate there were any obstacles the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Andres Gimenez, Blue Jays, Bob L. Miller, Chris Bassitt, Dale Murray, Elimination Day, Expansion, Jackson Todd, Jerry Koosman, John Olerud, Juan Berenguer, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bomback, Max Scherzer, Mookie Wilson, Nino Espinosa, Roy Lee Jackson, Team History The first week without Mets was predictably bumpy. The first week usually is, because life’s essential rhythm has been massively disrupted. There goes early evening’s certainty. There goes first pitch at 7:10. This year, there went the playoffs. Playoff time is already disruptive vis-à-vis established rhythms, because games start whenever TV says they start, and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Postseason, Coping, Juan Soto, One Soda, Pulp Fiction To paraphrase Henry Blake attempting to console Hawkeye Pierce in “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet,” the early episode of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye grapples with the combat death of an old friend, there are certain rules about a baseball season that doesn’t meet its high expectations. Rule number one is coaches get tossed aside. Rule number two […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antoan Richardson, Blame, Coaches, Danny Barnes, Desi Druschel, Eric Chavez, Euphemisms, Glenn Sherlock, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Rosado, M*A*S*H, Mike Sarbaugh, Rafael Fernandez “This summer, the Mets suffered so many difficult, late defeats in close games that no one on the team, surely, could have escaped the chilling interior doubt — the doubt that kills — whispering that their courage and brilliance last summer had been an illusion all the time, had been nothing but luck.” 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1971 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2025 Mets, 83-79 Records, Adam Rubin, Billy Loes, Closing Day, Dana Carvey, Dashed Hopes, Francisco Lindor, Leonard Koppett, Marlins, Mediocrity, Roger Angell, Team History, The Years After As a connoisseur of postgame media scrums, I recognize a no-win question when I hear it. No-win questions are asked after brutal losses that carry almost definitive consequences. It almost doesn’t matter how the question is answered. The question just has to be asked. The no-win question that was asked of Carlos Mendoza following the Mets’ […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad “The Animal” Lesley, Brandon Sproat, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Dylan Ross, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Media Scrums, Mistakes, No-Win Questions, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Sandy Alcantara, The Odd Couple, Tyler Phillips So often tempted to refer to any given Met loss as a “microcosm” of the portion of the season that has been defined by the club’s long, gradual decline from surefire playoff participant to accidental late-September survivor, I wondered if the bigger picture from which microcosm is derived is technically referred to as a “cosm”. […] Sunday’s victories were small, specific, and personal. Taking the train in from a different station and everything clicking as a result. Passing through the gate unaccosted and being handed the day’s “first 15,000” premium. Instigating several pregame encounters with total strangers, reminding me fans at a ballpark share a special bond when we start our […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, George Vecsey, Jacob Young, Mets Fans, Streaks Having had them imposed on the game we love for only four seasons, we National League fans remain mostly unfamiliar with the behavior of designated hitters during games. We know they come to bat once per order, but unlike their teammates in the lineup, they disappear from our view and our thoughts until they stroll […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, Alleged Clubhouse Encounters, Daylen Lile, Designated Hitter, Destiny, Inside The Park Home Run, Modern Fables, The Daylen Lile Game |
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