The essential kindness of baseball is that even a 51-111 team — which Greg noted is what the Mets have been since their 11-1 head fake — will give you more than half a hundred days and nights that end with a fist pump, a satisfied nod or at least a sigh of relief. The […]
 
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 |  Asdrubal Cabrera, Brooklyn Cyclones, Injuries, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz “You don’t know how to ease my pain…” The Mets lost 7-3 to the Diamondbacks on Friday night, one night after losing to the Diamondbacks, 6-3. Three runs scored on each of two consecutive nights might very well be taken […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2006 Mets, Chris Beck, Diamondbacks, Dom Smith, Godley & Creme, Imaginary Sandy Alderson, Jose Reyes, Kevin Plawecki, M*A*S*H, Mickey Callaway, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Seth Lugo, Stream of Consciousness, The West Wing, Wilmer Flores, Zack Godley At least the Mets are shaking things up. You no longer tune in guaranteed to see a valiant starting pitcher labor in futility with zero run support, waiting for the one slip-up that will prove fatal. Oh, that possibility’s still front and center, but the Mets have expanded their repertoire. You might also get an acceptable, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Hopelessness, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas, Michael Conforto, Mickey Callaway Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An ace walks onto a pitcher’s mound. Throws a great game for like seven innings. Gets almost everybody out, gives up maybe one run. Somehow, by the eighth, he’s on the losing end of a one-nothing score. His team […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Disturbing Trends, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Madonna, The Knack A day game right after a bad loss is often a good thing — right back at em, rinse that bad taste out of our mouths, and what-not. The Mets will put that baseball truism to the test in a couple of hours, and most likely give us a reason to doubt it the way […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Mickey Callaway, Ozzie Albies, Paul Sewald, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Tom Hallion, Umpires, Zack Wheeler Fifteenth anniversaries don’t get much play in our milestone-mad media. Ones, Fives, Tens, Twenties and up the line, sure, they’re money. But with rare exception, nobody gets too worked up over the crystal anniversary, not named for Billy Crystal, though I can see where the potential association might be […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Ed Kranepool, Jason Isringhausen, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Metropolitan Quinceañera, Mike Jorgensen, Milestones, Team History, Tom Seaver Last month I quoted the old Earl Weaver maxim that momentum’s only as good as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, not knowing what a cruel joke that would turn out to be. The Mets managed the head-scratching accomplishment of losing eight in a row while getting brilliant starting pitching: in that stretch, no Mets starter allowed more […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Dave Mlicki, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Todd Frazier, Yankees The Mets lost. Again. As they have done throughout this stake-in-the-heart homestead. As they have done with numbing regularity since mid-April. The details don’t particularly matter, so we’ll buzz through them quickly: they ambushed Yankees starter Domingo German for an unfathomable three runs in the first, on home runs by Todd Frazier and Asdrubal Cabrera. If you […] When the Mets are mired deep in one of their patented extended funks, I tend to be asked — given that I’ve been around and remember things — some variation on the question, “Has it ever been this bad before?” The fact that the Mets have patented […] It was a rally or as close to a rally as the 2018 Mets could have conjured in the first week of June 2018. Wednesday afternoon against the Orioles, Todd Frazier singled to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Recently returned from a hamstring injury and […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Reality, Roger Angell, Willie Mays |
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