The Wednesday morning news where Detroit was concerned was good. The Spinners, the enduring, melodious R&B group out of Ferndale, Mich., had made it at last to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their most fervent fans — a cohort that surely includes me — had been waiting what felt like forever to hear […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Day-Night Doubleheaders, Eric Haase, Javy Baez, Jimmy Yacabonis, Joey Lucchesi, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cabrera, Team History, The Spinners, Tigers, Zach Muckenhirn Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes It’s not every day your favorite Major League Baseball franchise registers its 5,000th regular-season loss. The day our favorite Major League Baseball franchise registered its 5,000th regular-season loss, the skies clouded up all morning and afternoon; began to mist and drizzle as evening set in; and then began to pour down through the night. Somewhere […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1966 Mets, Braves, Carl Willey, David Peterson, Dennis Ribant, Don Bosch, Don Cardwell, Frank Lary, Kevin Pillar, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Promise, Rain, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn When the Mets returned to what we’ll loosely call action Tuesday night, they were the inverse of what Annie Savoy saw in her Durham Bulls one extraordinary June and July where they’d played with joy and verve and poetry. That will happen after a cross-country flight that follows a West Coast road trip, we were […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Inconvenient Truth, Bull Durham, Frustration, Kodai Senga, Mackenzie Gore, Moneyball Francisco Alvarez went up and got it. The pitch, from Tyler Rogers, was measured at 3.87 feet off the ground. It looked higher. It flew higher. It flew over Oracle Park’s left field fence, which is eight feet high. After going up, getting it, and sending it for an aerial ride, Alvarez had every right […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, OPS+, Patience, Progress, Promise What Joey Lucchesi did on Friday night was, in the pitching-short present, necessary and appreciated. Off the radar for nearly two years while he underwent and rehabbed from Tommy John surgery, Joey the Churve stormed back from obscurity and Syracuse to do more for the Mets in one outing than he had done the whole […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1976 Mets, Craig Swan, Dave Kingman, Home Runs, Joey Lucchesi, Pete Alonso, Sports Phone, Team History The man used sweat and rosin, he said. He said it a lot. He repeated it enough so that I believed him, which doesn’t always work. The pitcher doth protest too much, methinks might be applicable here, except the pitcher pitches for the Mets and Met-think is how methinks. Besides, this is Max Scherzer in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Ejection, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, Rosin, Suspension, Sweat, The Manchurian Candidate, Umpiring “Do you have any other ideas? It’s getting late.” 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Drew Smith, Dustin May, Late Night West Coast Games, Story Conferences A walker can examine our past and present up close and come to some hazy conclusion over where we might be heading, not unlike Alexis de Tocqueville and Charles Dickens and so many others did when wandering similar byways during another uneasy patch of our history. If you took every 90 feet worth of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2022 Mets, A's, Francisco Lindor, Interleague Play, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Neil King Jr., Oakland Coliseum, Old Friends, Possums, Team History, Unicorn Scores, Walks When the Mets win, it’s best that the Mets win by doin’ Met things. When the Mets win, perhaps it’s not important to give the win a litmus test and just accept the W, but it’s more comforting to sense the Mets are functioning as they are supposed to so a given win doesn’t come […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Advertising Patches, Comebacks, David Robertson, Desecration of Uniforms, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Met Things, Pete Alonso, Tylor Megill |
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