FLUSHING (FAF) — Scientists anxiously monitoring activities at the Flushing Meadows National Laboratory expressed amazement Friday night at the discovery of yet another way for the New York Mets to lose a baseball game, this time by blowing a sizable eighth-inning lead to the San Francisco Giants and then loading the bases in the bottom […]
 
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 things were going better for them, the Mets would have won a game in Cleveland, maybe two, possibly all three. I realize that’s akin to invoking the old saying that if Carlos Mendoza’s aunt’s frog had wings, then every day would be Christmas; there are a lot of old sayings tantamount to declaring things […] When the Mets are behind, Keith Raad likes to convey the score to those of us listening on the radio or some radio-adjacent audio product by informing us that they’re chasing whatever the deficit is. It’s a perfectly fine way to go about one’s business, and Raad has been a good addition to the narrator ranks. […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Houser, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, David Fry, Emmanuel Clase, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jeff McNeil, Jose Ramirez, Josh Naylor, Keith Raad, Mark Vientos, Nick Sandlin, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Xzavion Curry I’d like to put 6:10 pm start times on the list of things that I thought would be good, or at least novel, and turned out to be terrible. First off, I completely forgot. I was doing something non-baseball-related, noted it was around 6:35 pm, and reflexively went back to what I was doing, because 6:35 […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Lively, Brett Baty, Guardians, J.D. Martinez, Josh Walker, Manny Gonzalez, Nick Sandlin, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill In the top of the first inning on Sunday afternoon, the Mets scored four runs, with Tyrone Taylor driving in two and Harrison Bader driving in two more. As soon as the third out was made, I called the visitors’ dugout in Miami. Bench coach John Gibbons answered. Gibby, I said, it’s Greg. Hi Greg, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, Christian Bethancourt, Helpful Advice, Jake Diekman, John Franco, John Gibbons, Phone Calls, Sean Manaea, Sean Reid-Foley Believe it or not, the Mets did some good things on Saturday afternoon before decidedly not good things started happening. Mark Vientos collected a pair of hits, drove in a run and played the kind of defense I didn’t think he could play. J.D. Martinez once again looked like he’s shedding the rust of his late […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connects, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Martinez, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rod Kanehl, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido Baseball is always about momentum. On Thursday night the Mets emerged from a terrifying game with the Phillies as the owners of a hard-fought win. It’s the kind of game that pulls teams together, that gives them a certain sense of purpose when they head for the next battleground, newly confident that they can, in fact, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Christian Scott, Kirby Snead, Mariners, Marlins, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Milestone Mets, Nick Fortes, Soilmaster Stadium The more straightforward aspects of a baseball game don’t require much explanation. Slugger Pete Alonso hit a home run. Got it. Starter Jose Quintana didn’t walk anybody. Got it. Closer Edwin Diaz blew a save. Got it, though we wish we didn’t. Still, protagonists gonna protagonize. The aspects of ballgame that keep a person engaged beyond […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Bob Bailor, Brandon Nimmo, Butterfly Effect, DJ Stewart, Harrison Bader, Pinch-Running, Tyrone Taylor At least the Mets seem to be accepting that some things aren’t working. They reported for duty in Philadelphia without Joey Wendle, mercifully DFA’ed in favor of Mark Vientos, and recalled Joey Lucchesi while sending Jose Butto down to presumably find coaches to help him tame his sudden bout of wildness. And, hey, the plan looked […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Grizzled Veterans, J.D. Martinez, Joey Lucchesi, Joey Wendle, Jose Bautista, Jose Butto, Jose Valverde, Mark Vientos, Mike Torrez, Phillies, Ranger Suarez The Mets ain’t too bad when they wear either their classic home pinstriped uniforms (10-7) or their road grays (9-8). They’re godawful when they wear anything else. Four losses with no wins in the City Connects. Two losses with no wins in the fade-to-blacks. And now, with the belated arrival of the white pants that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, An Appreciation, Black Jerseys, Blue Jerseys, City Connects, New York, New York Metropolitan Area, Paul Lukas, Uni Watch, Uniforms |
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