 
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. |
PHILADELPHIA (FAF) — Analysts are theorizing the New York Mets may be organizing an illegal and possibly immoral “stealth boycott” of the 2025 Major League Baseball postseason and are coming closer every day to their goal of not participating in the upcoming championship tournament. By losing their fourth consecutive game on Tuesday night, 9-3, at Citizens […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Conspiracy Theories, Losing, Unwanted Flashbacks One recipe for a good baseball game? A sequence of unlikely events. No-hitters flipped into walkoffs, storming back to a ninth-inning win, Houdini-ing your way out of what looks like statistical doom, that kind of thing. Monday night’s game in Philadelphia was a good game, much as we would have preferred a duller one with a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, Aaron Nola, Aborted Comebacks, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jhoan Duran, Nick Castellanos, Nolan McLean, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley A few months ago, I watched an episode of American Masters devoted to Liza Minnelli. One of those attesting to her brilliance as an entertainer and warmth as a human being was the actor Darren Criss, who related Liza’s reaction to a group get-together he considered himself lucky to be a part of: “She’s grabbing […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Brandon Sproat, Generation MST3K, Liza Minnelli Unfortunate news from Cincinnati, as Jonah Tong had to be recalled from Cooperstown and will have go through the formality of an actual career before his Hall of Fame induction. Tong surrendered three homers (including the first big-league shot for fellow rookie Sal Stewart) and walked four, though oddly, he gave up no other variety of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1989 Mets, 1990 Mets, Davey Johnson, Horrendous Uniforms, Jonah Tong, Nick Davis, Once Upon a Time in Queens, Reds, Ryne Stanek, Sal Stewart, Wild Card One of the benefits of paying very close attention to one specific entity for a very long time is you pick up on trends that might be apparent to you and only you. One of the benefits of having a platform like this is the opportunity to remark upon those trends. Here’s my picked-up-on trend of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ABC Network Promotional Jingles, Davey Johnson, Edwin Diaz, Generation MST3K, Great American Ball Park, Jeurys Familia, Moment of Silence, September, Shoes, Trends “Until you’ve been beside a man,” Detroit’s own Bob Seger wailed mournfully, “you don’t know what he wants.” And until you have a high-profile reliever on your team, you don’t know what he is. For the Cardinals, Ryan Helsley was lights out. For the Mets, he turns them off on his own team. Had Helsley done […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arrested Development, Bob Seger, Capable, Clay Holmes, Jose Castillo, Likable, Ordinary, Ryan Helsley, Special Hey, why don’t they make the whole pitching staff out of Nolan McLean? Statistically, McLean’s start Tuesday night against the Tigers was the least of the four he’s made so far in his very young career. But it might have been the most impressive for all that. McLean reported for duty having trouble landing his curveball […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Higginson, Chris Paddack, Juan Soto, Justin Verlander, Kevin Herget, Luis Torrens, Max Scherzer, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Ryne Stanek, Sawyer Gipson-Long, Tigers Before the Labor Day matinee against the Tigers, a friend asked me an alarming question: Who are the Mets’ starters for a playoff series? Kodai Senga? He’s been awful since returning from injury and Carlos Mendoza didn’t exactly offer a ringing, unambiguous vote of confidence about him remaining in the rotation. David Peterson? Bad start has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Comerica Park, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starting Pitching, Surviving Our Bullpen, Tigers The trumpeter who scores the postgame scurry to the 7 on Mets Plaza made an interesting musical choice in the minutes following the fresh 5-1 loss the Marlins had inflicted upon the Mets inside Citi Field. He played “Auld Lang Syne,” a number usually reserved for December 31 rather than August 31. I wondered if […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, August, Auld Lang Syne, Brandon Waddell, Kodai Senga, Mark Simon, Mets Trivia, Quizzing Satchels, Sandy Alcantara, September, Spunky Upstarts, Towed Juggernauts My whole life as a sports fan, I’ve seen teams seek “Wild Card” spots in playoffs and understood Wild Card to mean “not a division winner,” without ever really stopping to think of the term’s implication away from sports. To be certain I had it straight, I went to the dictionary (well, a dictionary site) […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Devenski, David Peterson, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Unknown, Unpredictable |
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