 
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. |
If 11 o’clock newscasts were what they used to be, the Minnesota Twins could have filled half of Warner Wolf’s Plays of the Month via their unintentional antics at frigid Target Field on Monday night. They don’t go the videotape like they used to. • Matt Walner lashed a ball that took one bounce the […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bloopers, Carmine Cincotta, Clay Holmes, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Steve Gelbs, Twins, Warner Wolf I turned on the Mets game a couple of minutes after my Metro-North train starting trundling south out of Waterbury, Conn., picking up the voices of Keith Raad and Pat McCarthy from distant West Sacramento. I switched trains in Bridgeport as old friend Luis Severino won an extended battle with Brett Baty even as he […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brett Baty, Howie Rose, Journeys, Keith Raad, Kodai Senga, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Pat McCarthy, Pete Alonso, Radio No doubt as the Mets’ traveling party gathered for its team Seder on Saturday evening in Sacramento, one of the elder statesmen at the table — my guess is bench coach John Gibbons — noted that the 3-1 score by which the club lost in the afternoon was the first 3-1 loss the Mets had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, A's, Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Catfish Hunter, David Peterson, Faith, George Stone, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Siri, Mark Vientos, Passover, Sacramento, Starling Marte, Team History, Team Seders, Tom Seaver, Unleavened Offense, West Sacramento, Yogi Berra Mets 3, A’s 1, game called after four and a half innings because your recapper was weary and collapsed into his bed. Wait, they don’t do things that way? Apologies — I figured maybe they did, what with everything else that was strange about watching the Mets and the A’s play in a ballpark that looks […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Billionaires We Don't Like, Dallas Braden, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, John Fisher, Las Vegas, Lawrence Butler, Mark Vientos, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Ron Darling, Sacramento, Sleep, SNY, Sutter Health Park Oh, right. Winning streaks don’t continue into eternity. I’d almost forgotten. If the Mets had to lose for the first time after doing nothing but winning for six games, the way they went down on a chilly, sunny Wednesday at Citi Field was about as acceptable an aberration applicable to the assignment as could be asked […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Marlins, Rationalization, Tylor Megill, Winning Streaks Halted A day after Monday night’s freeze-fest, the Mets played a game that had been moved to Tuesday daylight hours and yet somehow took place in even less pleasant conditions. (They closed the Promenade, which ought to tell you something.) That verdict was clear pretty much from the jump: Clay Holmes‘ third pitch of the afternoon […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Clayton McCullough, Cold, Connor Gillispie, Derek Hill, Farewells, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Marlins, Moment of Silence, Not Conor Gillaspie, Octavio Dotel, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Weather, Xavier Edwards If Monday night’s game had happened in late May or June, I think I would have fallen all over myself calling it taut and crisp, maybe with a side of hard-fought and close-run. And I don’t know, maybe you called it those things while on your couch. Or, God forbid, while peering around you at a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cold, Danny Young, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Jose Siri, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Ryne Stanek, Schedules, Tyrone Taylor Many Americans have pretended to have medical knowledge these past five years, so why shouldn’t a fan watching a baseball game on TV try to discern what’s wrong with a pitcher who doesn’t look physically right? My telehealth patient was David Peterson, who’d been rolling along through four-plus innings of grounding the Blue Jays Sunday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Expectations, Gin Blossoms, Hayden Senger, Max Kranick, Satchel Paige, Telehealth Diagnoses, The McCoys The City Connects were the perfect uniform for Saturday night’s Mets game, played in murky gray conditions with an inescapable wet chill, cascades of mist wafting through the air, and any ball that touched outfield grass leaving a spray of droplets to mark its progress. A surprisingly big crowd showed up despite the obvious attractions of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brendon Little, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, George Springer, Griffin Canning, Huascar Brazoban, Jeff Hoffman, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Jose Siri, Nick Sandlin, Starling Marte, Yimi Garcia The fans who wait for their team to come off the road while the year is still young are rewarded for their patience with two Openers. There’s Opening Day, which is festive no matter that it’s taking place in another ballpark, and there’s a discrete Home Opener, which grants us a second helping of holiday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Blue Jays, Bobby Jones, Buffets, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Francisco Lindor, Home Opener, Interleague Play, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Replay Review, Team History, Tylor Megill |
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