 
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. |
Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish Well, at least the pig exited covered with lipstick. The Mets fell behind 4-0 against a scintillating Yu Darvish on a night when Taijuan Walker didn’t have his best stuff, kept getting into trouble of his own making, and had very little in terms of bullpen and bench behind him – a situation that led to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Billy McKinney, Disappointment, Fernando Tatis Jr., Francisco Lindor, Ha-Seong Kim, James McCann, Jurickson Profar, Kevin Pillar, Late Night West Coast Games, Luis Rojas, Managers, Manny Machado, Mark Melancon, Mason Williams, Padres, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker, Tim Hill, Tomas Nido, Travis Blankenhorn, Yu Darvish Welcome to YouTube! Based on your viewing history, these videos are specially recommended for you! DELUGE OF OFFENSE OUT OF THE GATE 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Howie Rose, Madison Bumgarner, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Travis Blankenhorn, Wayne Randazzo, YouTube To be fair, it’s only natural: As fans, we see everything through a certain-colored lens, in our case one split between blue and orange. So let’s peer through it and see what’s what: Marcus Stroman was throttling the Diamondbacks, the Mets had the lead, and then everything went south. A minor but chippy on-field dustup between […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Josh Rojas, Marcus Stroman, Pavin Smith, Trevor May Prior to nine years ago today, I regularly wove fantasies about a New York Met throwing a no-hitter. Then Johan Santana threw The First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, and I didn’t have to fantasize anymore. The Second No-Hitter in New York Mets History — perhaps one a little more spotless than The First […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Jacob deGrom, Johan Santana, Kevin Pillar, Mason Williams, No-Hit Bids, Pete Alonso With so many roster transactions involving current Mets — including three more planned tonight to facilitate the deinjuring of a trio of heretofore injured Mets — we can be forgiven for not having taken note of every up and down involving former Mets. Yet we can’t let this AL Central subtraction from April 28 get […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Darren O'Day, Joe Smith, Justin Turner, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Shea Stadium, Team History The Mets’ run of injuries has been Biblical — witness this recent post, from Fangraphs, noting that Mets on the injured list account for nearly 20 WAR, going by preseason predictions. That’s by far the most WAR lost in the majors and should have been a recipe for disaster. And it still might be! But not […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brandon Drury, Braves, Cameron Maybin, Charley Smith, Defense, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, James McCann, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker Dear Student: The following is your remote learning unit for May 27, 2021. Please complete each assigned exercise, derived from this afternoon’s lesson plan, and submit your answers through your personalized educational portal, using code TWOFORTHURSDAY. Please stay safe, New York Metropolitan Teaching Technologies — 1) A standard scheduled baseball game measures nine innings. How many innings would a doubleheader […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Cameron Maybin, Churves, Connor Joe, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Rockies I went off to California for a week and while I was out there the Mets underwent some renovations, to say the very least. Deep breath. I’d barely registered the arrival of Jake Hager before he got his first big-league hit and then was subtracted from the roster. The minorly heralded Khalil Lee arrived, swung and missed […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Catchers, Edwin Diaz, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Replay Review, Ryan McMahon, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Yennsy Diaz It’s presumptuous to project thoughts onto the deceased. The deceased can’t speak for themselves, yet we the living haughtily decide what they might be thinking if they were still with us. I do anyway. For a decade now, I’ve done it with Dana Brand. Though it’s presumptuous as hell, I do it because I miss Dana. […] |
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