The New York Mets currently have on their roster five pitchers who were born before their last world championship, which speaks to both the age of the pitchers and the last world championship. One, Max Scherzer, hasn’t been able to make his most recent scheduled start because of neck spasms. One, Tommy Hunter, missed time […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Age, Beauty, David Robertson, Justin Verlander, Team History The Mets have been both bad and unwatchable for the better part of two weeks, so Tuesday night counted as progress: They were watchable. Watchable, as they fought back after being put in a deep hole by David Peterson, Stephen Nogosek, and (one could argue) the umpiring crew, which missed a ball headed for Francisco Lindor‘s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, David Peterson, Ejections, Francisco Alvarez, Frustration, Losing, Mark Canha, Reds, Stephen Nogosek, Wil Myers In the Mets’ first four seasons, the club twice lost home games by a score of 13-6. The first of them, on May 30, 1962, marked the coming out party for a chant you might hear enthusiastically when the Mets are coming on strong or ironically when the Mets pausing from going down meekly: “a […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 13-6 losses, 1982 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, Expressing Oneself, Joey Lucchesi, Middle Relief, Party Deck, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Strawberry Sunday, Team History The Mets, all $430-odd million of them, are a mess. The hitting is anemic. The starting pitching is mediocre. The record is the literal definition of mediocracy. The vibe, not an official stat but readily detectable, is a lot worse than that, with fans increasingly fuming before taking their seats, looking for someone to blame and […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Lans, Austin Gomber, Bill Pulsipher, Daniel Bard, Frustration, Gary Gentry, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Mental Health, Paul Wilson, Rockies, Shea Stadium The primary bus scene in Bull Durham, the one in which wise, older Crash Davis informs young, wild Nuke LaLoosh that nobody gets woolly, rushed across the strike zone of the mind Friday morning, specifically the line, “You could be one of those guys.” One of the realest-life Nuke LaLooshes to have toed a rubber […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Bull Durham, Harvey Day, Kodai Senga, Matt Harvey, Retirements I know nobody wants to hear it, but Justin Verlander didn’t pitch that badly. Even I don’t particularly want to hear it. I’m up in New England, running around doing nonsense, and so on Thursday afternoon I got MLB At Bat fired up a little late and this was more or less my reaction: Waitaminute, 2-0 already? […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Rodriguez, Frustration, Justin Verlander, Medi, Tigers The Wednesday morning news where Detroit was concerned was good. The Spinners, the enduring, melodious R&B group out of Ferndale, Mich., had made it at last to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their most fervent fans — a cohort that surely includes me — had been waiting what felt like forever to hear […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Day-Night Doubleheaders, Eric Haase, Javy Baez, Jimmy Yacabonis, Joey Lucchesi, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cabrera, Team History, The Spinners, Tigers, Zach Muckenhirn Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes It’s not every day your favorite Major League Baseball franchise registers its 5,000th regular-season loss. The day our favorite Major League Baseball franchise registered its 5,000th regular-season loss, the skies clouded up all morning and afternoon; began to mist and drizzle as evening set in; and then began to pour down through the night. Somewhere […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1966 Mets, Braves, Carl Willey, David Peterson, Dennis Ribant, Don Bosch, Don Cardwell, Frank Lary, Kevin Pillar, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Promise, Rain, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn This recap begins with a confession. Emily and I had tickets for Thursday night’s game, obtained weeks ago in exchange for a smallish charitable contribution. My 2023 debut at Citi Field was nigh, and with it the chance to demonstrate that I was not, in fact, jinxed despite having gone 0 for 2022 as an attendee, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, C.J. Abrams, David Robertson, Jeff McNeil, Jinxes, Joey Lucchesi, Mason Thompson, Nats, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Hunter |
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