 
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. |
That might have been the dumbest baseball game I’ve ever seen. It wasn’t exactly what any of us expected from Jacob deGrom vs. Carlos Martinez, as neither ace’s location was what it needed to be. The result was basically an Adam West-Burt Ward Batman caper, with the principals milling around for a bit until it was […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Absurdity, Addison Reed, Bill Graham, Cardinals, Carlos Martinez, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, John Brebbia, Jose Reyes Can your blogger file his recap within the 24-hour window? Well, with an 11 am start he can. Why was the answer even close to know? Because this was the first game of the season I had no desire whatsoever to recap — which for me is usually a sign that I’ve finally accepted that the competitive part […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Nationals, Prospects, Seth Lugo, T.J. Rivera It’s 10½ games to first place, we got one healthy starting outfielder, half a season, it’s morning, and we have a game before noon. Saturday afternoon, shortly past 2:10 PM Metropolitan Promotional Time, I entered Citi Field clutching an Asdrubal Cabrera bobblehead and overcome by a vision. In my […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Elwood Blues, Nationals, Relief Pitching, Ryan Raburn, Sam Rayburn, Steven Matz, Summer, Visions Some things you have might have missed in Sunday’s oft-snoozy, quietly weird, ultimately dispiriting loss to the Phillies: Rafael Montero wasn’t that bad. Yes, the wheels fell off in the second inning for Montero, who has a history of winding up standing forlornly by the side of the road waiting for a wrecker. But Montero was […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Nick Pivetta, Phillies, Rafael Montero So the Mets played an amazing game Saturday afternoon, with Asdrubal Cabrera hitting the go-ahead home run on the same day fans took home a bobblehead of him connecting for a walkoff home run against the same team last year, and — Wait a second. I’m afraid this post has been flagged for review. Because what you’ve written […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Asdrubal Cabrera, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Strange Events, Ty Kelly, Zack Wheeler Some games words filter into your brain. The word of the night Friday was “taut,” as in nice and tight, the way you’d figure someone who intermittently devotes himself to baseball as something of an academic discipline would like it. Give a student of the game a 2-1 affair won by his favorite team and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Analytics, Andrew Knapp, Bartolo Colon, Ben Lively, Broadcasters, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Jacob deGrom, SABR, Sandy Alderson, Tautness, Tim Tebow, Tom Goodwin, Ty Kelly, Yoenis Cespedes The Mets don’t lead the league in much, but they’re at least a wild-card contender in keeping us guessing, having concluded their road trip with a Rorschach record of 5-5. That’s five to go in the They Rebounded From Getting Blitzed and Got Themselves Together on the Road So There’s Hope column (you may label this one differently, of course), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Bruce, JT Riddle, Matt Reynolds, Seth Lugo, Storytelling, T.J. Rivera Don’t remind Ray Ramirez that Curtis Granderson is still out there, still playing, still hitting, still in one piece. Ramirez, or our conception of Ramirez as grim reaper of Met body parts, eventually gets everybody. He doesn’t get Granderson, though. Three-and-a-half years into a four-year contract, Grandy stands on two feet that he puts one […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Curtis Granderson, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Mets-Fan Compulsiveness, Milestones, Steven Matz, Team History, The West Wing Thank goodness for Monday’s off-day, for it gave us another 24 hours to test the limits of mathematical optimism. Once the Mets were no longer playing the 2017 Giants, our dreams of seeing them ascend to contention were revealed for what they were and the audacity of hope crashed headfirst into the inevitability of nope. And, for approximately the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Young, JT Riddle, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Neil Ramirez, Wilmer Flores Anthony Young died today, Tuesday, at the age of 51, several months after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. When he pitched for us, we rarely referred to him as Anthony and basically never called him Young. He was AY to us. He was AY when L’s stuck to him like he and they […] |
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