 
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. |
Dull and dreary turned to bright and shiny in an instant — the very last instant. If you’re gonna make such a switch, latest inevitably proves better than never. Had Brandon Nimmo not swung and connected for the walkoff two-run homer that transformed a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 victory, dull and dreary was prepared to […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bright, Dreary, Dull, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Esix Snead, ESPN, Jarred Kelenic, Jeff McNeil, John Bateman, Luis Severino, Mother’s Day, Old Friends, Pinch-Runners Who Homer, Pinch-Running, Ray Sadecki, Ronald Acuna Jr., Shiny, The Shawshank Redemption, Zack Short There’s honestly not a lot of insight to be had comparing a mediocre baseball team with a very good one. Very good teams make plays and get hits when it matters; mediocre ones sometimes do and sometimes don’t. Christian Scott, forced to cosplay as a chimney sweep for his first-ever Citi Field start, was pretty […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Christian Scott, Futility, Humiliation, J.D. Martinez, Joe Jimenez, Max Fried, No-Hit Bids, Raisel Iglesias The season began with plenty of warning, yet I found myself scrambling in the hours before and after Opening Day to update all the things I keep track of once the season is underway. The files I maintain for my and occasionally your amusement/edification looked like the aftermath of a party nobody had bother cleaning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Braves, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Jose Quintana, Keeping Track, Luis Guillorme, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses. Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist. Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Harrison Bader, Julio Teheran, Omar Narvaez, Pete Alonso, Raisel Iglesias, Reynaldo Lopez, Tommy Milone “The moon belongs to everyone,” a wise man once informed a hallucinating man, though the subject could have been the playoffs, and that would have been wise, too. They’re here for all of us every October that isn’t October 1994, even if the best things in life include the Mets playing in them, and that’s […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Postseason, Braves, Bryce Harper, Hated Foes, Mad Men, Orlando Arcia, Phillies, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler SNY spotlighted a clubhouse interview after Wednesday night’s game as if it was news. Francisco Lindor said the Braves were better than the Mets. This is news in the sense that this just in: Studies Show Pleasure Preferable to Pain. What’s the scoop here? That one of the Mets’ leading players recognized that the team that […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, DJ Stewart, Francisco Lindor, Jose Quintana, Marcell Ozuna, Sean Murphy, Sean Reid-Foley, Unflattering Comparisons Let’s put a big asterisk on this one right away: There’s no such thing as revenge when one team is a cool 23 games ahead in the standings. The Braves losing a game to the Mets is like getting a mosquito bite on your way to the car after a bug-free picnic: You’ll scowl and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Francisco Lindor, Kevin Pillar, Michael Harris II, Rafael Ortega “David Peterson.” “It’s simple, I mention a name or something else, and you tell me the first thing you think of.” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Colin Holderman, Consecutive Games Played, Daniel Murphy, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, David Thompson, DJ Stewart, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grant Hartwig, Gus Bell, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Butto, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, One Met Homer Only, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Team History, Winning Time The Mets — yes, those Mets, the ones you root for even though the reason is no longer faintly discernable — won a baseball game. A baseball game played against the Atlanta Braves, no less. They won it slowly and then in a hurry and then slowly again: Kodai Senga fell behind 3-0 in the first when […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Collin McHugh, Kodai Senga, Rafael Ortega, Yonny Chirinos On Saturday afternoon, the Mets lost to the Braves by 18 runs. On Saturday night, the Mets lost to the Braves by 6 runs, looking darn near professional if not particularly effectual for most if not all of nine innings. They still lost by 6 runs, which is not the goal of a major league […] |
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