When the 2020 season was in the uncertain talking stage — after Spring Training, before Summer Camp — I was pretty sure of one thing: other than for historical perspective purposes, I would never want to see highlights of whatever transpired on the field once the Mets started playing, if they started playing. And once […]
 
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 |  2020 Mets, Amed Rosario, Billy Hamilton, Dom Smith, Doubleheader Sweeps, Edwin Diaz, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. “People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.” I became a Mets fan in 1976, when the team had […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Fans, Gil Hodges, Mayo Smith, Quotability, Rafael Ramirez, Ron Swoboda The Mets and Marlins didn’t play Thursday night. After some milling around in front of both dugouts, the Mets ran out to their positions, led by Dominic Smith and Billy Hamilton. Miami’s Lewis Brinson stepped to the plate. Caps came off. The other players on both teams came out of the dugouts to stand in a […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Brodie Van Wagenen, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Lewis Brinson, Marlins, Mets, Miguel Rojas, Not Sticking to Sports, Politics, Reality, Rob Manfred, SNY, Steve Gelbs You know the thing about moral victories in baseball, right? Namely, that they don’t exist. You were down 8-1 and gallantly came back and showed fight and lost 8-7? Here’s a pat on the head, because that’s called a loss. Well, Wednesday night’s game against the Marlins, because of course it had to be the Marlins, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Brad Brach, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Justin Wilson, Stupid Marlins If it had been at all delightful, Tuesday’s twi-night doubleheader at Citi Field could have been billed a Berra’s Delight. Anybody who could make sense of the nonsense at hand would have been admitted free. Or admitted at all. Nobody is admitted to baseball games in 2020, of course. After fourteen innings of futility, nobody who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Corey Oswalt, Doubleheaders, Home Teams Away, Jon Berti, Juan Lagares, Luis Rojas, Marlins, Mets Managers, Pandemics, Patrick Mazeika, Rick Porcello, Seth Lugo, Stealing Home, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Yogi Berra Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. One must wait until the evening In the film Defending Your Life, Albert Brooks stars as Daniel Miller, a Californian who dies in a car […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Albert Brooks, Barry Manilow, Jason Phillips, Jose Reyes, T-shirts Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects Seth Lugo did not make his first start since 2018 on Thursday night. The Mets did not go for the four-game series sweep in Miami on Thursday night. Dom Smith did not take further aim at the National League RBI lead on Thursday night. Luis Guillorme did not get as much as one swing in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Abnormality, Pandemics, Postponements The Mets got the win Wednesday night in Miami, as they scored more runs than the Marlins for the third consecutive night. That’s the key indicator right there. So we’ll go W-NYM. We shall credit Michael Conforto with the save. He came up in the ninth with Brandon Nimmo on first and bashed a two-run homer […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Saves “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano |
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