 
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. |
We had guests up here at the house in Maine, so when I got to belatedly check on the Mets I did a double take. NYM 5, ATL 2? Really? Really. A little sleuthing revealed that Brett Baty had ambushed Bryce Elder with his first career grand slam, following an oh so modern bit of confusion […] Zac Thornton and a band of relievers were good. The Mets’ bats were better — 19 hits, including three each from A.J. Ewing, Francisco Lindor, Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien and Tyrone Taylor. Lindor had two home runs on a huge night, Semien smashed one into the second deck, and Taylor hit a longball as he […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Braves, Connor Thomas, Francisco Estrada, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien, Tyrone Taylor, Walt Weiss, Zac Thornton Unfortunately, bonkers wins count the same as ho-hum ones. The Mets’ 7-6 extra-inning win Monday night in Atlanta was certainly bonkers, even certifiably so. Proof: Juan Soto hit a go-ahead home run into the upper reaches of the Chophouse (rudely interrupting its trajectory to the moon) with two outs in the ninth and there was some […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brooks Raley, Devin Williams, Extra Innings, Francisco Alvarez, Freddy Peralta, Great Escapes, Jared Young, Jim Jarvis, Jose Azocar, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luke Weaver, Matt Olson, Mauricio Dubon, Owen Murphy, Ozzie Albies, Raisel Iglesias, Ronny Mauricio, Splits July 4’s delightful defeat in Atlanta had me drawing up a declaration of independence from the remainder of my team’s 2026 contests, so I didn’t particularly mind when the Mets and Braves started off late because of rain down in Georgia — hell, it can rain out the rest of this dreary year for all […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bob Murphy, Braves, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, Damn Things, Devin Williams, Dom Smith, Drake Baldwin, Guillermo Zuñiga, Howie Rose, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Keith Raad, Luke Weaver, Martin Perez, Nolan McLean, Tyrone Taylor For America’s 250th birthday, the New York Mets have presented us with a pair of slightly misshapen bookends they’ve been crafting for over a year. The club begs our indulgence regarding the way they don’t quite match. While the Mets realize the Semiquincentennial is an occasion worthy of the bookends’ unveiling, they ask if we […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1966 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2026 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Bookends, Braves, Buddy Harrelson, Christian Scott, Cycles, Foul Balls, Home Runs, Immaculate Grid, Juan Soto, Moises Alou, Ray Knight, Semiquincentennial, Team History, The Third of July, Tom House, Tommy Hunter, Willie Stargell, Wilmer Flores A few hours before the Knicks turned New York City into the world’s largest block party, the Mets lost a humdrum game against the Braves by the told-you-it-was-humdrum score of 3-1. To be fair, the biggest positive of the game was actually worth noting: Sean Manaea got the start and turned in six effective innings, a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Braves, Droughts, Eli White, Juan Soto, Knicks, Martin Perez, Michael Harris II, Replay Review, Rick Sweet, Sean Manaea, Umpires Like Bob Seger so many summers ago, Bo Bichette woke last night to the sound of thunder. BOOM! before the game. Then he woke the rest of us up. BOOM! in the first inning. BOOM! like crazy in the second. Bo went BOOM! twice in a game that waited for a wicked storm to pass […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bob Seger, Braves, Gene Shalit, Grand Central Madison, Grand Slams, Juan Soto, Lightning, LIRR, Masks, Mets Museum’s Inadequacies, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Rain, Thunder I hated the fact that on Saturday night the Mets lost to the Diamondbacks, 2-1. I hated that the Mets lost largely because they’ve once again forgotten how to hit. Brett Baty drove in Marcus Semien with a double in the second inning, and if you reached back to Friday night’s 10th inning uprising you might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Bobby Cox, Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Diamondbacks, Farewells, Geraldo Perdomo, Hatred, Idlemaro Vargas, Lourdes Gurriel Jr., Merrill Kelly, Paul Sewald It’s a basic rule that you cannot, in fact, win ’em all. It’s also a common error as a baseball fan to forget this bedrock truth. It sure felt like the Mets would win ’em all, or at least this next quantum in the set, when Mark Vientos blasted an early two-run homer off Bryce Elder to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Cedric Mullins, David Peterson, Gregory Soto, Jurickson Profar, Mark Vientos, Tyrone Taylor Different night, same three-legged stool of suck. Kodai Senga worked into the sixth, which is the Mets starting pitcher equivalent of a complete game these days. Into the sixth, but not out of it — let’s not go crazy, folks. Was that better than Senga has been? Yes. Was that better than Mets starters in general […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Braves, Kodai Senga, Raisel Iglesias, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers |
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