I had the feeling I was seeing something I hadn’t witnessed before, so I ran through it in my head to confirm. Eleven postseasons. Twenty postseason rounds. Ninety-four postseason games. It took until the respective eleventh, twentieth and ninety-fourth of the above for the New York Mets to do something they’d never done before. Never […]
 
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. |
 18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Brewers, Helpful Precedent, Oof, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Sean Manaea, Team History It was the ninth inning against the Phillies, 10 days ago, and ESPN’s little win probability thing (a sop to gamblers, but that’s another post) was making me insane. It said the Phillies had an 8% chance of coming back to beat the Mets, which was obviously wrong. Obviously and deliberately and nefariously wrong. I didn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Ashby, Brewers, Brice Turang, ESPN, Freddy Peralta, J.D. Martinez, Jackson Chourio, Jesse Winker, Joel Payamps, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Starling Marte, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Adames Late on a Sunday night in 1975, I’m watching Sammy & Company on Channel 4 because I’m up, it’s on, and nothing else is. The Sammy in question is Sammy Davis, Jr. He’s done it all in show business and now he’s hosting this syndicated not quite talk show, not quite variety show. It’s got […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Clinchings, Closing Day, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hollering, Hooting, Jarred Kelenic, Joey Lucchesi, Karma, Mets Pop Culture, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Redemption, Sammy Davis, Screaming, Shouting, Spencer Schwellenbach, Travis d'Arnaud, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor We’re in. 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Braves Lose, Clinchings, Mets Win The Mets live. You didn’t necessarily see that coming, did ya? Maybe I did, maybe I didn’t. Hope for the best, expect the Mets is my credo. I expected the Mets to do their best on Sunday in Milwaukee. Whether that and concurrent events in Atlanta and Arizona would be enough to survive and then some […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Life C’mon, Francisco. C’mon, Jose. C’mon, Mark. C’mon, the whole bunch of you, one through nine. It was no use. I called to them through the TV with encouragement by first name or nickname and, save for a single in the first and a double in the fifth, the personal touch was of no use. Nor […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Brewers, Damn Yankees, Sniff ‘n’ the Tears, Uncertainty Yes, Ramon De Jesus’s umpire scorecard is going to be a thing to behold. (It’ll show up here if you want to torture yourself.) The most egregious missed call was, rather obviously, the ball four on Francisco Alvarez that was called strike three, turning a bases-loaded situation for the Mets into the end of an […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Johnson, Alex Young, Anxiety, Brewers, Bryce Turang, Danny Young, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Ramon De Jesus, Rhys Hoskins, Sean Manaea, Umpiring, Wild Card It’s the time of year when someone asks you how you are, and you tell them the Mets have been rained out not only today but tomorrow, and they have to get out of Atlanta, which is about to be hit by a hurricane, which you care about in the abstract as a human being, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1999 Mets, Braves, Brewers, Chaos, Pennant Race, Pulp Fiction, Rainouts, Sleepy Rob Manfred, The Music Man, Travel, Up In The Air Fair warning that you’re not getting much of a recap. But then you didn’t get much of a game. You’re not getting much of a recap because I want this game out of my brain as quickly as possible, and sulking about the outcome for an hour or three or six will neither help with that […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Disappointment, Ghosts, Jay Payton, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Ramon Laureano, Spencer Schwellenbach, Starling Marte, Vexing Losses, Weather The following is not to be construed as an endorsement of playing a regular-season baseball game on a Sunday night, particularly when that game was originally scheduled to be played on a Sunday afternoon, and it’s definitely not an endorsement of any television network that has purchased the contractual right to move this baseball game […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Closing Day, Closing Night, Edwin Diaz, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Jose Butto, Miracles, Old Friends, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Phillies, Sunday Night Baseball, That Thing You Do, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor, Zack Wheeler |
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