Before the Mets fell — and I do mean fell — in Atlanta on Saturday night, 14-3 (Pete Gogolak connected for a late field goal, but those two Falcon touchdowns were too much to overcome), Juan Soto was named as a starting outfielder to the National League All-Star team. This might be a fact worthy […]
 
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 |  Alphabetical Order, Guillermo Zuñiga, Guillo Zuñiga, Joey Gerber, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Position Players Pitching, Sean Manaea, Team History, Tyler Zuber For America’s 250th birthday, the New York Mets have presented us with a pair of slightly misshapen bookends they’ve been crafting for over a year. The club begs our indulgence regarding the way they don’t quite match. While the Mets realize the Semiquincentennial is an occasion worthy of the bookends’ unveiling, they ask if we […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1966 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2026 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Bookends, Braves, Buddy Harrelson, Christian Scott, Cycles, Foul Balls, Home Runs, Immaculate Grid, Juan Soto, Moises Alou, Ray Knight, Semiquincentennial, Team History, The Third of July, Tom House, Tommy Hunter, Willie Stargell, Wilmer Flores On Canada Day 2026, let us remember that since 1962, our neighbors to the north have given (or at least loaned) the New York Mets a dozen of their countrymen, sending them south from their home and native land to play baseball for the likes of us. Therefore, we salute: Ray Daviault — who pitched in […] Depending on where you’re sitting and who’s surrounding you, the least conducive place for intently focusing on a ballgame can be at the ballpark. I sat most of very warm and very sunny Sunday afternoon in Citi Field’s Big Apple Reserved section, those uncovered seats in center far from home plate. Never was I happier […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Concession Credits, Fruit Cup, Group Outings, Tyrone Taylor’s Name as Chant, Very Futile, Very Sunny, Very Warm By the general acclaim of those who interacted with him on a regular basis, Carlos Mendoza was a mensch. It didn’t matter. Consensus rarely pinned on him the bulk of the Mets’ on-field woes that stretched back more than 365 days in the course of the year-plus his ballclub circled the drain. It didn’t matter. […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Carlos Mendoza, Menschiness, Mets Managers Eric Wagaman was fun, mostly because my friend Ken and I, sitting out in right field, decided in advance of Eric’s pinch-hit home run Thursday night to think of the most random of 2026 Mets as The Waga-Man. After bemoaning that so much of the Met roster has been defined by randomness, we were willing […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Eric Wagaman, Halfway Point, Hebrew National, Jared Young, Sparkless Wednesday started, more or less, with Michael Conforto robbing A.J. Ewing of a potential extra-base hit. Conforto was playing right field for the Cubs eleven years after he began playing left field for the Mets. He was the hope of outfield future in the summer of 2015, a first-round draft pick whose elevation to Citi […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 27th Man, A.J. Ewing, Absurd Infield Defense, Bo Bichette, Cole Mathis, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, David Clayton-Thomas, David Peterson, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Pintaro, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Michael Conforto, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Norwegians, Soap Opera Names, Soccer, Sweeps, The Dean, Victor Newman In the spirit of Norm Macdonald in 1994 on the subject of Kenny G’s new Christmas album, NBC and the Mets teamed up last evening to say, “Hey, happy Sunday night, baseball fans — hope you like crap!” “In related news, David Peterson will be starting a baseball game tomorrow night on this very […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rizzo, Austin Warren, Bryce Harper, Carson Benge, Crap, David Peterson, Going Nowhere, Jason Benetti, John Franco, John Kruk, Juan Soto, Kyle Schwarber, NBC, Norm Macdonald, Sunday Night Baseball, Zack Wheeler Welcome back to NBC 4 New York’s continuing coverage of this unforgettable day. We now go live to Bruce Beck, who has word of an unforeseen development, as the massive downtown celebration of the NBA champion Knicks takes an unexpected turn. Natalie, since Lower Broadway was already set up for an UNBELIEVABLE procession, New York City […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Bruce Beck, Counting Crows, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Nolan McLean, Parades Yet To Be Scheduled, Recidivist Mets, Zack Short Twelve runs allowed. You could say 12s were wild for the Mets on Monday night in Cincinnati, except there was nothing that screamed or even whispered “wild” about their 12-0 loss to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Futility, Jonathan Pintaro, LOBs, Shutouts, Tobias Myers |
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