 
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. |
By one measure, Justin Verlander looked pretty good after facing 16 Dodgers on Friday night at Citi Field to kick off the second half of the 2023 season: He hadn’t allowed a hit, keeping the Mets even in a 0-0 pitchers’ duel with Julio Urias. And if that’s the extent of what you saw, well, maybe […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Julio Urias, Justin Verlander, Mookie Betts With 25 home runs, Pete Alonso is an All-Star for the third time as a Met. Despite first-half performances suggesting they could have planned to join Pete on the flight from San Diego to Seattle this Sunday, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo remain players who’ve never been All-Stars as Mets. It is the latter cohort […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Brandon Nimmo, Correcting History, Francisco Lindor, National League Town, Pete Alonso Almost everything was great Saturday. Really. The start time, Saturday afternoon at 4:10, was great. As a start time, 4:10 has élan. On any day, 1:10 can be too early, 7:10 too mundane. On a Saturday especially, 4:10 is the sweet spot. You have your day. You have your night. You have your baseball in the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Ace Frehley, Adam Ottavino, Black Cat, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Gabe Kapler, Giants, J.D. Davis, July, Justin Verlander, LIRR, Luis Guillorme, Saturday Afternoons, Tommy Pham She said she’d meet me in the bar “6:30 at apple?” landed like a fresh breeze in my inbox Monday evening, a few hours before the person who sent it appeared to all but permanently […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1995 Mets, Apples, Billy Joel, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Danny Mendick, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Long Time Coming, T.J. McFarland Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver Given a choice between a bedraggled, ill-mannered win and a jut-jawed, morally inviolate loss, you take the win every time. And the historical record will show that the Mets beat the Yankees Wednesday night, prevailing 4-3 in walkoff fashion in the 10th at Citi Field. But if you were watching, you know that “win” is stretching […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Baserunning, Billy McKinney, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Dumbass Wins, Eduardo Escobar, Gerrit Cole, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jeff Brigham, Justin Verlander, Mark Vientos, Nick Ramirez, Redemption, Steve Gelbs, Walkoffs, Yankees The starter can’t hold a four-run lead in the fourth inning. Two relievers can’t maintain a tie in the sixth inning, and a third reliever is barred from the mound because of sticky hands in the seventh inning. The center fielder can’t catch a ball lined essentially in front of his glove. The five-hole hitter strikes out with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Daniel Vogelbach, Dominic Leone, Drew Smith, Five-Tool Losing, Francisco Lindor, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Josh Walker, Luis Guillorme, Mark Vientos, Matt Franco, Max Scherzer, Raging Passion, Simmering Passion, Starling Marte, Sticky Hands, Subway Series, The Matt Franco Game On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets … won a baseball game. That’s it. They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won. That shouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Dauri Moreta, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Steve Cohen The schedule works out well for the Mets this weekend, positioning them to take advantage of their place in the standings. They are three games out of the third Wild Card spot in the National League and they are in Pittsburgh for three games this weekend to take on the team that it turns out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bullpen, Francisco Alvarez, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Jim Mora, Justin Verlander, Tommy Hunter, Wild Card The Mets’ losing streak is over — and so, as it happens, is mine. I went 0 for 2022. Every time I attended a Mets game they lost the damn thing, including two playoff games. The only time they won a game for which I held a ticket was Closing Day, and I bailed out of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Citi Field, Francisco Lindor, Kodai Senga, Phillies, Ranger Suarez |
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