Many a Met could echo the official team ditty and implore us to hurry up and come on down to meet them as they’ve attempted to be really socking that ball, hitting those home runs over the wall. But only one in recent years had accrued the moral authority to lay on the line what […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  An Appreciation, Brandon Nimmo, David Stearns, Marcus Semien, Surprises, Trades A more consistently robust, perhaps less finicky team Hall of Fame — the kind of institution that steps to the forefront with some regularity before mysteriously fading from view between releasing its intermittent puffs of orange and blue smoke — would have already included the three members the Mets recently announced as their 2026 inductees. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Carlos Beltran, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Hall of Fame Pete Alonso didn’t hesitate after the final frustrating game of a frustrating season ultimately torpedoed by frustrating losses. He was asked if he planned to exercise the opt-out clause in his contract in order to test the open market, and he said yes. Edwin Diaz wasn’t quite so quick on the withdraw; he’d have to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Business, Edwin Diaz, Frustration, Fun, Most Valuable Met, Performance, Pete Alonso The Mets didn’t play ball in October, and I learned to be OK with that, despite dedicating my waking hours from late March through late September to their ultimately insufficient quest to play ball in October. Maturity being what it is, I grew distant enough from the grating, granular shortfalls of the 2025 season to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Postseason, Blue Jays, Diner, Dodgers, World Series, World Series Ending Offseason’s greetings everyone! Hope you enjoyed the World Series, and aren’t too anxious yet about who will be next to employ Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz or both. There’ll be time for that, promise. For now, something to fill an hour very pleasantly: Welcome, Josh Levin, to the Wilbur Huckle Appreciation Society! Twelve years ago — the night Dom […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Baseball Cards, Dom Smith, Josh Levin, Keith Olbermann, Podcasting, Rod Gaspar, Ron Swoboda, Wilbur Huckle Symptomatic of the proliferation of Interleague scheduling, the Mets opened their home season against the Toronto Blue Jays this past April, winning three straight. It was fun in the moment, even if the moment didn’t portend anything special for the 2025 Mets in the long run. It also didn’t indicate there were any obstacles the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Andres Gimenez, Blue Jays, Bob L. Miller, Chris Bassitt, Dale Murray, Elimination Day, Expansion, Jackson Todd, Jerry Koosman, John Olerud, Juan Berenguer, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bomback, Max Scherzer, Mookie Wilson, Nino Espinosa, Roy Lee Jackson, Team History The first week without Mets was predictably bumpy. The first week usually is, because life’s essential rhythm has been massively disrupted. There goes early evening’s certainty. There goes first pitch at 7:10. This year, there went the playoffs. Playoff time is already disruptive vis-à-vis established rhythms, because games start whenever TV says they start, and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Postseason, Coping, Juan Soto, One Soda, Pulp Fiction To paraphrase Henry Blake attempting to console Hawkeye Pierce in “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet,” the early episode of M*A*S*H in which Hawkeye grapples with the combat death of an old friend, there are certain rules about a baseball season that doesn’t meet its high expectations. Rule number one is coaches get tossed aside. Rule number two […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antoan Richardson, Blame, Coaches, Danny Barnes, Desi Druschel, Eric Chavez, Euphemisms, Glenn Sherlock, Jeremy Barnes, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Rosado, M*A*S*H, Mike Sarbaugh, Rafael Fernandez “This summer, the Mets suffered so many difficult, late defeats in close games that no one on the team, surely, could have escaped the chilling interior doubt — the doubt that kills — whispering that their courage and brilliance last summer had been an illusion all the time, had been nothing but luck.” 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1971 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2025 Mets, 83-79 Records, Adam Rubin, Billy Loes, Closing Day, Dana Carvey, Dashed Hopes, Francisco Lindor, Leonard Koppett, Marlins, Mediocrity, Roger Angell, Team History, The Years After What is it with the Mets, the Marlins and Game 161s? (Games 161? Anyway.) I’m generally allergic to tidy narratives, but this one was undeniable: John Maine in 2007, Johan Santana in 2008 … and now Clay Holmes in 2025. No, Holmes didn’t go all the way. But that’s nitpicking — he’s a converted reliever who’s way […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Eury Perez, Jeff McNeil, Johan Santana, John Maine, Marlins, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, Reds, Shea Stadium, Soilmaster Stadium, Tom Glavine, Wild Card |
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