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 […]
 
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. |
Like everybody else, I’m mortal. I have an expiration date, a timer that will ring, a final quarter that will yield GAME OVER. One day I’ll have a final moment and once it’s past, I’ll be dead. I have no idea when that final moment will be — it could come a few minutes from now, […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Charlie Morton, Mortality, Tylor Megill 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 Tough walking around New York with all that smoke wafting down from Canadian wildfires. To take our minds off the ominous skies, let’s enjoy some Mets highlights from Wednesday night in Atlanta! All of New York can see how great its Mets are doing. No delay — the game starts on time! 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brooks Raley, Delusion, Dominic Leone, Francisco Alvarez, Haziness, Hit By Pitch, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Tommy Pham White Flight Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Mets for some time now, but the home of the Braves outdid itself Tuesday night, first with a rain delay that didn’t actually feature rain — they watered the goddamn infield when guys could have been playing on it — and then with horrible […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pitchers Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes It’s not every day your favorite Major League Baseball franchise registers its 5,000th regular-season loss. The day our favorite Major League Baseball franchise registered its 5,000th regular-season loss, the skies clouded up all morning and afternoon; began to mist and drizzle as evening set in; and then began to pour down through the night. Somewhere […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1966 Mets, Braves, Carl Willey, David Peterson, Dennis Ribant, Don Bosch, Don Cardwell, Frank Lary, Kevin Pillar, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Promise, Rain, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card Something I do when making real-world decisions is ask, “what’s the worst thing that could happen?” and then adjusting my plans as needed. (“I could get hit by a car that I won’t know is coming around that corner” = maybe don’t do that, while “the weather means the flight’s canceled and I get there […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chris Bassitt, Dansby Swanson, Disappointment, Matt Olson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wild Card It’s a measure of how spoiled we’ve been: Jacob deGrom looks mortal (and for a second start in a row, no less) and we’re all scratching our heads as if God has repealed physics and things are falling up and sticking to ceilings. DeGrom was better than he was in his confoundingly disastrous Oakland start, and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Brooklyn Cyclones, Dansby Swanson, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jacob deGrom, Kenley Jansen, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Max Scherzer, Pennant Race, Starling Marte |
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