Met victories were so plentiful Friday night in San Francisco — for the club as a whole, for Nolan McLean, for power hitting, for clutch hitting, for remaining awake — that one is tempted to relegate to footnote status the little matter of Juan Soto exiting the game early with tightness in his right calf […]
 
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Annnnd we’ve reached another milestone a lot earlier than we might have hoped: the season’s first game that I recap belatedly because I can’t stand the thought of reliving it. If you didn’t see Thursday night’s game, well, good on you for making better life choices than I did. The Mets largely didn’t hit, yet again […] When the Mets aren’t winning every day, everything they are doing badly glares, while everything they are doing well hardly matters to us. The Mets aren’t winning every day. Everything, therefore, feels terrible. The starting pitchers are doing well, doing the most you could reasonably ask for, at any rate. None of them hasn’t lasted less […] Editor’s Note: Today marks the beginning of a revolutionary new chapter for Faith and Fear in Flushing, as we unveil our innovative artificial intelligence tool fAfIf. As the season progresses, we will increasingly rely on fAfIf to report on select New York Mets contests, with an eye on increasing fAfIf’s ability to eventually achieve optimal […] It happens every spring: A Mets loss arrives and then departs eliciting no reaction beyond a vaguely affronted shrug. A loss — striking in a new season where you still remember every twist of every game, but soon to fade into anonymity, becoming part of the blur of series and road trips and homestands and […] Bo Bichette knows baseball pretty well, having played a lot of it — and seeing a bunch more before he did that professionally, what with being the child of a fairly renowned big leaguer. So he knows perfectly well that baseball is unpredictable, maddening and shot through with ironies big and small. Like my blog partner, […] When watching television, I sit on the audience-left side of our living room sectional, which means it’s my right arm that flexes out at the end of a particularly frustrating Mets loss, and the side of my right fist that instinctively punches the nearest cushion. Disgust thus manifested, I can move along to my cooling-off […] Opening Day brought balmy temperatures, runs a-plenty and good vibes. Most of Game 2, which arrived separated from Game 1 by the usual “rainouts happen” off-day, was the opposite: It was freezing, big hits were conspicuous in their absence, and the vibes were meh with a side of muttery. David Peterson was very David Peterson: mostly […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bo Bichette, Bryan Reynolds, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Henry Davis, Hunter Barco, Jake Mangum, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Juan Soto, Justin Lawrence, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcell Ozuna, Mitch Keller, Pirates, Richard Lovelady, Walkoffs Did I hear him correctly? Did I hear Carson Benge, in the wake of his smashing major league debut at Citi Field, tell a friendly interlocutor that ”I want to keep playing here forever”? Don’t toy with us, kid. Because if you’re serious, we’re in the smitten state of mind to take you up on […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Dash Crofts, Debuts, Forever, Francisco Alvarez, Freddy Peralta, Home Opener, Jorge Polanco, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcus Semien, Mets Home Opener, Moment of Silence, Oneil Cruz, Opening Day, Paul Skenes, Promise, Tobias Myers Once the Oscars have finished doing what they do, the curtain goes up on Faith and Fear in Flushing’s salute to the Mets who have left us — in the baseball sense — over the past year. This is the twentieth annual edition of our tribute to those stars, characters, and bit players who have […] |
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