It is one of baseball’s great curiosities that your sub-.500 team can leave its home park, whip a first-place opponent in its home park by a fairly uncommon score on a Tuesday and do the exact same thing four days later to another first-place opponent in its home park. This particular phenomenon may not quite […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Porn, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Picket Fence, Replay Review, Team History, Uncommon Scores Occurring in Proximity, Zack Wheeler Jeff McNeil went 8-for-8 on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field with two cycles and a sacrifice fly. In the field, he had six assists apiece from left, right, third and second, and recorded the final out of the game by bursting through the protective netting in front of the seats near first base to make […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breakout Season, Jeff McNeil, Risky Business, Versatility, Wrigley Field My first numerical obsession as a baseball fan developed in the waning days of the 1969 regular season. There was nothing waning about late September and early October if you loved the Mets, but I did catch on, at age six, to the finite nature of the schedule, so I figured out that the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Brooks Pounders, Chuck Hernandez, Coaches, Cubs, Dave Eiland, Jeremy Accardo, Julio Franco, Pete Alonso, Phil Regan, Ricky Bones, Todd Frazier, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font Well, the Mets’ renaissance lasted for a grand total of one game. The team had been weirdly aggressive on the bases for a couple of days, with formerly timid runners lighting out for the next base and even a double steal secured. But the good times screeched to a halt in the sixth inning Wednesday night. […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Dallas Green, Gary DiSarcina, J.D. Davis, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Steven Matz Before Tuesday’s game the Mets diverted a river into the Augean stables of their bullpen, sluicing Jeurys Familia onto the IL with a vaguely defined shoulder injury and washing Drew Gagnon out to Syracuse, in favor of Daniel Zamora and newcomer Stephen Nogosek. Mickey Callaway also called a team meeting, after which his players said all […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Broadcasters, Daniel Zamora, Gary Cohen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Team Meetings As Monday’s game and possibly the season it is a part of were getting definitively away from the Mets, I found myself particularly irked not so much by their comprehensive, soup-to-nuts on-field shoddiness but the deficiencies in their off-field communications. It’s bad enough they don’t play a good game, they’re also not up to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brodie Van Wagenen, Karma, Language, Mickey Callaway, Quotes If you’d like some good news from Sunday’s 4-3 loss to the Cardinals, there’s this: Somehow, we’ve reached a juncture where the idea that Jason Vargas might be absent from duty is a cause for concern instead of mild relief. That sounds like a dig but isn’t — Vargas has been genuinely good of late, a […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Pounders, Chris Flexen, Jason Vargas, Paul DeJong, Wilmer Font “All right, now we move on to the entries from Mr. Callaway’s class. Mr. Callaway’s class always has such interesting ideas and unorthodox ways of displaying them. Our first student is Peter Alonso. Peter, tell us about your project.” 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Pounders, Drama, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Science I put off writing the recap of Friday night’s Mets baseball — the completion of Thursday’s suspended game and Friday’s regularly scheduled contest with the Cardinals — in hopes that a night’s sleep would take the sting out of it. Oh ha ha ha ha ha. Nope, in the clear light of morning it hurts just as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Paul DeJong, Pitchers Hitting, Vexing Losses A leading candidate to be rerun into perpetuity by SNY during future rain delays as part of Abysmal Finishes: 2019 has received a reprieve, having been suspended in damp midair by the powers that be wanting to get to bed at a decent hour. Thus, Edwin Diaz did not blow Thursday night’s game against the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abysmal Finishes Held in Abeyance, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Suspended Games, Team History |
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