With two outs in the ninth and the Mets up by a skinny run, the Twins’ Brooks Lee slapped a ball into the hole, to the right of fill-in shortstop Bo Bichette. Bichette made a nice play to corral it, threw across his body with everything he had … but no, Lee had beaten it […]
 
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 |  Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Lee, Byron Buxton, Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, James Outman, Juan Soto, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Tim Leiper, Twins From innings one through five on Tuesday night, a perfect game took hold at Citi Field. From the sixth through ninth, four more perfect innings were thrown. Selective arithmetic indicates twenty-seven batters came up, twenty-seven batters went down in something approximating succession. More down than up, per usual, for the New York Mets, noted perfectionists when […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aces, Austin Warren, Byron Buxton, Devin Williams, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Home Run Celebrations, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streak, Matt Harvey, Nolan McLean, Perfect Game Bids, The Moon, Tom Seaver, Twins On Saturday I had nothing to do with the 2026 New York Mets, and honestly it was the nicest day I’d experienced in some time. Oh, Emily and I kept it Mets-adjacent: We spent the afternoon in the stands at Maimonides Park on one of those “nice in the sun” early spring days, watching the Brooklyn […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Craig Kimbrel, Cubs, David Peterson, David Stearns, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Losing Streaks, Luke Weaver, Michael Conforto, MJ Melendez, Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong The New York Mets, entering Saturday’s matinee as losers of nine in a row, intermittently overcame some of what was stacked against them. The wind was blowing in at Wrigley Field, but Mark Vientos ripped a fly ball so hard that it landed well over the fence in the top of the second inning. That […] “The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists though civilization’s sunset. We watch the catastrophe unfold, refusing to fully admit our doom…” Today I decided the Mets would win a ballgame. They were playing the Cubs on a Friday afternoon […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kodai Senga, Lineups, Losing Streaks, MJ Melendez, Positive Thinking, Sean Manaea, Summerlike Weather, The Wind Blowing Out, Wrigley Field “And it’s one more day up in the canyon,” Adam Duritz observed joylessly some thirty years ago, “and it’s one more night in Hollywood.” In that same chilly Southern California spirit, here’s to no more nights in Chavez Ravine. The doubly defending world champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, extended their winning ways not once, not twice, […] Nolan McLean keeps getting better and better — but not even he can escape the Mets. In just his 12th start as a big leaguer (!!!), McLean was nicked for a first-inning run but looked sparkling after that, making the best team in baseball look downright silly for the rest of a long night at Dodger […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Vesia, Brooks Raley, Dodgers, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Jacob deGrom, Kyle Tucker, Noah Syndergaard, Nolan McLean, Pitchers Hitting, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Not having grown up a Yankees fan, I always thought that as a broadcaster, well, Phil Rizzuto sure was a Yankee legend. But Rizzuto had a bit of scorekeeping shorthand that I always loved for its combination of honesty and puckishness: WW, which stood for “Wasn’t Watching.” I thought of the Scooter in the bottom of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Joey Gerber, Late Night West Coast Games, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Pham A button at the end of one of my favorite Mad Men episodes has been circulating through my head ever since Opening Day. Don has come home to discover young Sally is still freaked out by the appearance of her new little brother Gene. Dad has to sell daughter on the notion that this infant […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carson Benge, Craig Kimbrel, Dicky Lovelady, Freddy Peralta, Identity, Joey Gerber, Life Expectancy, Luis Garcia, Mad Men, Recidivist Mets, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham A hazard of the recapping trade is you spend the game field-testing narratives in your head while the bedrock story is still unfolding, trying on summations variously grand, tragic or farcical. After Kodai Senga‘s disconsolate departure, this was my first draft for this entire recap, channeling Dean Wormer’s caustic advice to Flounder in Animal House: Bad at […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carlos Cortes, Carlos Mendoza, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Kodai Senga, Luke Weaver, Tyler Soderstrom |
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