By defeating Philadelphia on Saturday at Citi Field, the Mets elevated their win total to 86 while keeping their loss total at 69. Those are numbers a Mets fan likes to stare at as a playoff pursuit approaches its final turn. Invoking the two world championships in franchise history as a useful omen in 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. |
 17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Complete Wins, Echoes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Omens, Sean Manaea, Trust The good news? The Braves lost. And the Mets were so bad so early against the Phillies that all involved — players and fans alike — essentially moved on even before the game was over, cramming it into the memory hole and hurrying away. Emily and I were at Citi Field, sitting in the front of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Alec Bohm, Blowouts, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Eddy Alvarez, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Iglesias, Nick Castellanos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Position Players Pitching I can feel it coming. Maybe it’ll be this year, or in five or in 10, but it’s a when and not an if: My physician will settle himself or herself on a stool, make sure I’m paying attention, and say the inevitable words. Mr. Fry, you need to stop watching baseball. There will be alternatives offered: […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luis Severino, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reed Garrett, Taijuan Walker, Trea Turner There are seats up there in Citi Field below and a little beyond the retired numbers. I confess I never really registered that they were there before — I’m usually looking at those big pinstriped circles, with my mind’s eye off somewhere along memory lane. Those seats have a lovely view, too — LaGuardia’s new Terminal […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Big Innings, Brandon Nimmo, DJ Herz, Jacob Barnes, Jose Quintana, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Promenade Agee and Aspromonte. Alfonzo and Agbayani. Alou (Moises) and Anderson (Marlon). The possibility that two Mets whose last names began with an ‘A’ could each produce an HR in the same game has intermittently existed over the decades. I have confirmed Bob Aspromonte and Tommie Agee indeed went deep in tandem on May 18, 1971, […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alphabetical Order, Arizona, Atlanta, Benny Agbayani, Bob Aspromonte, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Pete Alonso, Rick Aguilera, Team History, Tommie Agee Has there ever been a Mets team that has had this much fun winning? Of course there’s been. From the first Mets team to post a winning record, in 1969, to the most recent Mets team prior to the current edition that did so, in 2022, they all had themselves a blast in the process […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Bull Durham, Eduardo Escobar, Grimace, Jose Iglesias, Mark Simon, Mark Vientos, MRIs, Pinch-Running, Sean Manaea, September, Starling Marte, Walkoffs, Winning Records A couple of things I’ve finally figured out about pitchers in recent years of fandom: Their game logs are portraits of ebb and flow, and you assume the worst (or the best) at your peril. Jose Quintana looked like a prime candidate for “I’ll drive that guy to the airport myself” earlier this summer; his last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Buddy Kennedy, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Heartbreak, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Pitchers, Tyrone Taylor, Weston Wilson I decided to go into the hot take business on May 30. It wasn’t all that hot a take, actually. What I removed from the oven of projection and prediction seemed pretty obvious and therefore lukewarm as regarded a team with a record of 22-33 and a DFA-bound reliever who had just flung his glove […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Balloon Drops, Bryce Harper, Cal Stevenson, Eras, Freezing Cold Takes, Injuries, Luisangel Acuna, Pillow Screaming, Team History, The West Wing, Winning Records When they announce the next year’s baseball schedule I take a look, because how can’t you? But after a couple of glances — When’s the home opener? How many times do we go to the West Coast? — I go back to whatever I was doing. The dates are far off, you have no idea […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Alex Young, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.T. Realmuto, Jose Quintana, Kyle Schwarber, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Roger Clemens So, what do I lead with when this no-hitter is over? Bob Moose in 1969? Max Scherzer in 2015? Proof that a no-hitter thrown at the Mets late in a season doesn’t necessarily preclude that season from having a successful (maybe Amazin’ly successful) postseason? That’s a tough sell. I know it’s true, but when the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bowden Francis, Dramatic Comeback Wins in September, Foiled No-Hitters, Francisco Lindor, Keith Raad, No-Hitters, Sean Manaea, Thought Processes |
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