Acknowledging up front that a pair of regulation baseball games trimmed in advance from nine to seven innings apiece — with ties in the top of the eighth and beyond designed to be resolved expediently by dispatching a runner to second base before anybody stands in the batter’s box — is an affront to nature, […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bob Murphy, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jean Segura, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Stripes, Stupid Rules, Taijuan Walker, These Challenging Times, Unearned Runners People don’t ask us what we do in spring when there’s baseball. They know what we do. We stare out the window and we hope it’s not raining. You didn’t have to be Rogers Hornsby early Sunday afternoon to know there might not be baseball this soggy April day and that it was a rainy day in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Forecasts, It’s Five Games, Marcus Stroman, Rainouts, Rogers Hornsby, Suspended Games, Trading Places Sure, if you slow down video of somebody sticking his protectively guarded elbow in the general direction of a baseball passing otherwise untouched through the strike zone, it’s gonna look bad. So don’t do that. Instead, live in the moment of Michael Conforto’s right elbow instinctively jerking ever so slightly within the flight path of Anthony […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Bass, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Don Mattingly, Good Luck, Hit By Pitch, Home Opener, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Michael Conforto, Pat Jordan, Ron Kulpa, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver, Umpires Tuesday night’s Mets triumph in Philadelphia may have been the least convincing 8-4 victory in the history of 8-4 victories, but the key words here are “triumph” and “victory,” both of which the Mets achieved. The win column greets them with no hesitation. Fortunately, the Style Council is not authorized to award points within the National […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Bullpen, Dom Smith, Jeurys Familia, Marcus Stroman, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Trevor May What do we want out of Opening Day? 1) For it to arrive. The first is essential, whether we’re talking wishing for the season to start sooner than possible (when Spring Training inevitably drags) or start at all (see 2020…or just the other day). The second speaks […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Harbingers, hindsight, Home Runs, Opening Day, Opening Day Delays, Team History The Mets are about to begin their season and we Mets fans are about to begin it with them. I know we thought we’d be three games deep into this new year by now, but better late than never. What will 2021 bring? In terms of wins and losses, we’ll see. In terms of what stays […] The pencil manufacturers of America have been enjoying boom times these past two baseball seasons, what with the folly of penning in ink anything that hasn’t happened yet becoming ever more evident. Or have you seen the Mets open the past two baseball seasons as originally scheduled? Last year is last year, but this year’s still […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Erasers, Jacob deGrom, Matt Moore, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Opening Day, Pencils A lifetime spent staring at the Mets’ skyline logo inevitably draws the eye to the bridge in the foreground. As the franchise’s official explanation details, the span “symbolizes that the Mets, in bringing National League baseball back to New York, represent all five boroughs.” It’s a helluva Met-aphor, and fairly close to geographically accurate from […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Ballparks, George Bamberger, Jack Egbert, Judd Apatow, Larry Bearnarth, Staten Island, Utter Foolishness Multiple sources are reporting the Mets and Francisco Lindor have agreed on a ten-year extension worth $341 million, meaning the all-world shortstop will remain in orange, blue and occasionally black through 2031, or Steve Cohen will be paying him off handsomely to go away after a while. Just floating the worst-case scenario to ensure it never […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, 2031 Mets, Contract Extensions, Francisco Lindor, Opening Day, Steve Cohen With Spring Training having concluded Monday following a .500 result (3-3 vs. the Cardinals) and a .500 exhibition record (11-11-2), we offer a hearty Faith and Fear welcome to the all-but-official ten about-to-be new Mets of 2021, each of whom appears slated for inclusion on the Opening Day 26-man roster. Mind you, speaking conditionally is […] |
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