 
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 you were beginning to worry that the All-Star break would impede the Mets’ gathering momentum for a push toward playoff contention, rest easy this week. There is no momentum. There will be no playoff contention. All provisional prognostication is subject to change with the emergence of the next six-game winning streak, but by the time […]  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Break, Flat as a Pancake, Hit By Pitch, Joe Musgrove, Kodai Senga, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham A little over a week ago, we were lamenting the fact that the Mets seemed incapable of winning any games; Saturday night found us grousing that they couldn’t, in fact, win them all. That’s how quickly things change in baseball, and how speedily they’d changed for the Mets: Good starting pitching, timely hitting and actual luck […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, David Peterson, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Padres, Starling Marte It took ten innings, but the Mets made the Padres look like the Mets while preventing the Padres from making the Mets look like the Padres. This is to say the East Coast version of the Padres beat the West Coast version of the Mets, 7-5, in extras. If I wasn’t following one of these teams […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diego Segui, Football, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Must Wins, Padres, Repus Bowl, Soap Opera Names, Tommy Pham Who are these guys and what have they done with the 2023 Mets? Actually, don’t answer that, because who cares? And don’t look for them, because this is fine. Unlike Wednesday’s heroic, up-off-the-mat victory, there wasn’t a lot of sweat expended Thursday in urging the Mets across the finish line. The game was essentially over in the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Todd Zeile A late night West Coast game is a late night West Coast game under any guise, whether the coast is relatively ballpark-adjacent or an entire state over. Arizona’s oceanic only in that it chooses to not spring its clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, meaning that for all intents and purposes from a New Yorker’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Chafin, Brett Baty, Chase Field, Christian Walker, Citi Kids, Comebacks, David Robertson, Desert, Diamondbacks, Dillon Gee, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Late Night West Coast Games, Mark Canha, Oasis, Tommy Henry, Triples The Mets have spent the better part of the 2023 season thralls to disappointment, mostly of their own making. Yet they’d somehow won two in a row, a modest accomplishment except that June was such a horror show that two in a row seemed like ascending a fair-sized mountain. They didn’t play Monday, leaving their winning […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Happy Holidays, Max Scherzer, Miguel Castro, Radio With 25 home runs, Pete Alonso is an All-Star for the third time as a Met. Despite first-half performances suggesting they could have planned to join Pete on the flight from San Diego to Seattle this Sunday, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo remain players who’ve never been All-Stars as Mets. It is the latter cohort […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Brandon Nimmo, Correcting History, Francisco Lindor, National League Town, Pete Alonso A team played shoddy defense. A team saw its relievers struggle. A team hit balls right at defenders. A team rallied, sent a strong hitter up in a big spot … and got nothing out of it. That’s a familiar 2023 script, and it’s what we got on Sunday night, along with ESPN personalities we hadn’t asked for. (I […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Dominic Leone, Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, Jeremy Hefner, Pete Alonso, Winning Streaks Almost everything was great Saturday. Really. The start time, Saturday afternoon at 4:10, was great. As a start time, 4:10 has élan. On any day, 1:10 can be too early, 7:10 too mundane. On a Saturday especially, 4:10 is the sweet spot. You have your day. You have your night. You have your baseball in the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Ace Frehley, Adam Ottavino, Black Cat, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Gabe Kapler, Giants, J.D. Davis, July, Justin Verlander, LIRR, Luis Guillorme, Saturday Afternoons, Tommy Pham Was it David Robertson‘s fault, or just his turn? The Mets normally reliable post-World Baseball Classic Plan B closer was called upon to protect a 4-2 lead in the eighth against the Giants and started by striking out old friend Wilmer Flores, who’d homered earlier. (With Wilmer, J.D. Davis and a hamstrung Michael Conforto on the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Robertson, Giants, Patrick Bailey, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Pham |
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