 
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. |
Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence With the Mets in a pennant race again, I’ve been remembering all the little stresses that come with meaningful games in September. Here’s one of them: Getting to within an hour or two of the game and thinking that this could be Execution Day — the day where, if they don’t win, you can pretty much […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joe Panik, Joe Ross, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera Sometimes life — by which I mean, “that stuff scheduled around baseball games” — gets in the way. First there was dinner, then a podcast interview. I moved what I could thanks to the kindness of other folks involved, but only so much movement was possible, and the Mets would have to take a back seat […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Daniel Zamora, J.D. Davis, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Scott Kingery, Zach Eflin Before Tuesday’s game the Mets diverted a river into the Augean stables of their bullpen, sluicing Jeurys Familia onto the IL with a vaguely defined shoulder injury and washing Drew Gagnon out to Syracuse, in favor of Daniel Zamora and newcomer Stephen Nogosek. Mickey Callaway also called a team meeting, after which his players said all […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Broadcasters, Daniel Zamora, Gary Cohen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Team Meetings Pete Alonso was National League Rookie of the Month for April and National League Rookie of the Night on Tuesday. He is a veteran in kid’s clothing any time you hear him speak. He is a franchise player exploding all around us.
To start a game, you want to see your leadoff batter, Jeff McNeil, get on base. McNeil, we can all agree, is the greatest hitter extant. He was batting .352 as Friday night began, which is all the proof our Mets fan hearts require to declare supremacy on […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Porn, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Dominic Smith, Jeff McNeil, Josh Hader, Lorenzo Cain, Michael Conforto, Offensive Ineptitude, Pete Alonso, Questionable Roster Moves, Robinson Cano, Ryan Braun, Steven Matz, Wilson Ramos During Spring Training you might have noticed Brodie Van Wagenen was enlisting special advisors left and Wright: Captain Dave; Al Leiter; John Franco; Jessica Mendoza. You hadn’t seen so many advisors being deployed since the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Since special advice is so in Met vogue, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dominic Smith, Gulf of Tonkin, Jeff McNeil, Jessica Mendoza, John Franco, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Special Advisors, Zack Wheeler Tuesday’s game at New Soilmaster marked an unhappy milestone for the new season: it was the first time I found myself deeply bored. Seriously. The Mets scored a flurry of runs off Jose Urena and the Marlins’ slapstick defense (that part was fun), and then the game bogged down in a quagmire and 50 dudes more […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Jason Vargas, Justin Wilson, Luck, Marlins, Mickey Callaway The upset of the season occurred Sunday afternoon as I was upset — mildly, but palpably (if not Papelbon) — that the brink-of-elimination Mets were defeated by the cusp-of-clinching Red Sox. The two teams may play in the same quadrant of the country, but they’ve hardly competed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Sale, Fan Groove Back, Hope, Jack Reinheimer, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Red Sox, Righteously Annoyed, Seth Lugo I’ve been to Fenway Park before — in fact, a few years ago I discovered that I saw my first-ever baseball game there, dandled (presumably) on my mother’s knee for a Red Sox-Tigers tilt in 1970 or so. I was back in the late 1990s, but with relatively few parks under my belt, my impressions […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brock Holt, Corey Oswalt, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Fenway Park, Jackie Bradley Jr., Paul Sewald, Red Sox, Rick Porcello, Steven Wright, Yankees Suck |
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