Choose one from among the applicable Met narratives:
a) the Mets can never do anything right;
b) the Mets rarely lose in Philadelphia.
The latter is […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citizens Bank Park, Competing Narratives, Devin Mesoraco, Friday Night Lights, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz The Mets, who started out some long-gone season 11-1, are back to being the same shambling disaster we’ve come to know all too well. Sudden, unexpected injuries to key players? Check. Nagging, thoroughly expected injuries to other key players? Check. Nagging injuries to key players with no corresponding DL stint, ensuring those maladies become something worse? Check. Playing time […] Technically, there’s no rule against using Jason Vargas and Hansel Robles in the same game, but that doesn’t mean a manager should be allowed to do it. Nevertheless, Mickey Callaway challenged common sense if not the letter of the law, and inevitable results ensued Tuesday night in Cincinnati. Vargas was characteristically […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob G. Miller, Cliff Cook, Devin Mesoraco, Don Zimmer, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jason Vargas, Matt Harvey, Reds, Todd Frazier, Trades, Tsuris The Mets played a baseball game in Cincinnati Monday night — and, for the first time in eight days, ended the night as winners. That’s the unalloyed good news. The rest, well, it’s a matter of perspective. The Mets hit the baseball with authority, something they hadn’t done in quite some time. Michael Conforto — who may […] So were you doing your job this time, or is this another fake recap where you use fancy writing to dress up the fact that you only watched half an inning? This time around I listened to half an inning while in a rental car on the way to Logan Airport. Does that answer your question? It […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fantasy Baseball, Hansel Robles, Ian Desmond, Noah Syndergaard, P.J. Conlon Your recapper will begin by confessing something usually kept discreetly behind the Faith & Fear curtain: his direct experience of tonight’s game was limited to the bottom of the ninth, watched while scowling/frowning at a phone in a friend’s living room north of Boston. Well, fuck. That bottom of the ninth was brief. Mercifully, one […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Fans, Garrett Olson, Gerson Bautista, Hansel Robles, Hope, Jay Bruce, Lino Urdaneta, Mac Scarce, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz The Mets were teasing me again Friday night. For the second time this week, I went to see them, and for the second time this week, they got me revved up in the bottom of the ninth after spending eight-and-a-half innings essentially disengaged from the competition at […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, Farewells, Harvey Day, Matt Harvey, Steve Trachsel Remember when the Mets were good? Our once-promising team is now thoroughly rooted in all-time last place, behind such worthies as the 2018 Baltimore Orioles, the 1962 Mets, the 1875 Brooklyn Atlantics and the 1899 Cleveland Spiders. That seemingly pretty decent 17-12 record? An illusion born of sabermetrics or some other newfangled defacement of the grand […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Freddie Freeman, Jason Vargas, Matt Harvey, Ozzie Albies, Ronald Acuna Jr. Jacob deGrom was pitching his usual brilliant game, en route to shutting out the Atlanta Braves long enough to convince us the worst-case scenario Wednesday night would involve how the bullpen would blow the slim lead he protected, assuming the Mets ever figured out how to score a […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Holding Our Breath, Injuries, J.J. Putz, Jacob deGrom I have the data to refute this, but every Mets game I’ve ever been to seems to have ended with the Mets trailing in the ninth, getting the tying and/or winning runs on base or at least to the plate, and losing anyway. The data says that’s […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Futility, Hope, John Stearns, Stubborn Perception |
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