The Mets haven’t been on the wrong end of any lopsided beatdowns this depressing weekend in Philadelphia, so we haven’t heard any wizened press box wag offer in a Burgess Meredith rasp the old chestnut that if this were a fight, somebody woulda stopped it by now. If these games were fights, at least 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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bob Murphy, Boxing, Brandon Nimmo, Burgess Meredith, Fight, Johan Rojas, Rocky Balboa, Ronny Mauricio, Scoring Systems, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Trea Turner, Zack Wheeler Anyway, it’s turned cold and rainy here lately, but I like winter. Pending iffy weather, the Mets are positioned to carve a statistical triptych of despair this afternoon in Philadelphia. Thursday night, they clinched a losing record for the season. Friday night, they were […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Brett Baty, Dillon Gee, Historical Plunges, Mathematically Eliminated, Sideways, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Team History, The Years After, Tylor Megill Despite indications it might never happen in the course of a year that had only just begun, in their seventh game of 2023, the Mets (3-4) fell below .500 for the first time. So much for white lace and promises. In their 61st game of 2023, the Mets (30-31) fell below .500 for what turned out […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Discouraging Long-Term Trends, Fifteen-Year Periods, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Team History, The Carpenters, Under .500 So the Mets won two out of three — and could have swept if not for a Gott-forsaken relief appearance — to knock the Marlins off their postseason course, at least temporarily. They’ll now tangle with the Phillies, whose playoff aspirations will be somewhat harder to foil, then host the Marlins, then square off with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Drew Smith, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Trevor Gott In memory of the late Dennis D’Agostino and his classic book, This Date in New York Mets History, let’s remember what the Mets were up to on this date — September 20 — fifty years ago, in 1973. It was time to carefully remove the m-word from the ark in which it had been kept undisturbed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 50th Anniversary, Channel 9, Cleon Jones, Ron Hodges, Wayne Garrett He may not have had the spelling quite right 46 summers ago, but Marvin Gaye foresaw Tuesday night’s ninth inning in Miami at…I know what it’s called, but I’m not in the mood to acknowledge it Park. After struggling to convert baserunners into runs, and balls hit at them into outs, the Mets dramatically pulled […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Diner, Headaches, Joey Lucchesi, Marlins, Marvin Gaye, Ronny Mauricio, Spoilers, Time-Released Revenge, Trevor Gott Marlins Nation! We need to talk! Because what just happened? We just took it to the Atlanta Braves — the mighty Braves! — by sweeping a three-game series and outscoring Acuna and Strider and Co. by a cool 23 runs. There are less than two weeks to go in the season, and the playoffs are right […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Hatred, Jacob Stallings, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Soler, Jose Butto, Marlins, Phil Bickford, Spoilers, Tanner Scott Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […] Saturday night’s game between the Mets and Reds was one of those close affairs you’re not sure whether to call taut or merely indifferent. The Mets harried Andrew Abbott but couldn’t inflict substantial damage on him; the Reds tormented Tylor Megill but couldn’t put him away either. For the second game in a row, matters […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Abbott, Christian Encarnacion-Strand, Francisco Alvarez, Reds, Ronny Mauricio, TJ Friedl, Tylor Megill A habit I’m trying to break as a baseball fan is the assigning of blame. If the Mets don’t win – even a stripped-down, playing-out-the-string version of the Mets – it can’t be that the other team won or something went wrong or an unlucky event occurred. No, it has to be someone’s fault. For instance: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Grant Hartwig, Hunter Greene, Jonathan India, Pete Alonso, Reds, Relief Pitching |
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