 
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 […] A lesser-known quote from the great Rogers Hornsby has been on my mind recently: “People ask me what I do in summer when there’s baseball like this. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for winter.” Today is Greg’s recap, I plan to be on the East River in a […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brock Stewart, Carson Benge, David Stearns, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dodgers, Errors, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Jorge Polanco, Kyle Tucker, Marcus Semien, Nolan McLean, Rogers Hornsby, Tyrone Taylor Someday, the Mets will do that thing you want them to do. They’ll figure out a place for Brett Baty, whether on the field or in another town. They’ll let a pitcher go as deep as his arm will allow him. They’ll hit a ball past a Brewer with runners on base. They’ll take less […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brewers, Christian Scott, Records, Red Sox, Timing, Winning Streaks, Wishes Major League Baseball imposing an extended intermission upon its schedule proved absolutely restorative where our parochial interests were concerned. All the Mets needed was a break. A little break. A break a little less long or at least more disjointed than any other team besides the Phillies. We came back from not playing for three […] Perhaps Tuesday night’s Calvinball exhibition stunned the Mets and Royals into dizziness. Maybe it left them feeling abashed. Possibly it was a bit of both. Whatever the reason, the two teams played a baseball game that was relatively quiet and normal for most of Wednesday night. Christian Scott was good albeit not in a particularly efficient […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Alex Lange, Brett Baty, Cap Bingo, Christian Scott, Citi Field, Dan Hammer, Jac Caglianone, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Jose Cuas, Promenade, Randy Dobnak, Royals, Salvador Perez, Shea Stadium, Steven Cruz, Tobias Myers, Xzavion Curry Six solid innings from Nolan McLean, followed by a criticism-free inning each from Brooks Raley, Luke Weaver and Devin Williams. Home runs from Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens — the rare Double Catcher Dinger Combo — with a bit of late insurance from Brett Baty. Sound defense, with a succession of nifty plays from homecoming kid Bo […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean What the Mets did to anger the baseball gods is an interesting question. So is what they did to MLB’s schedule makers. There they were playing in the middle of the night on the other side of the country, starting their fourth West Coast trip of what’s still a young season, and given all that I’m […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, A.J. Minter, Brett Baty, Jared Young, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mariners, Sean Manaea, West Coast Trips It’s good to win a baseball game. It’s good to win a baseball game against the Marlins, who are a collective blight on baseball, an affront to the concept of not just team sports but also leisure-time activity, and a rebuttal to the idea that there can be joy and light in a cosmos riven by […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Josh White, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Nolan McLean, Owen Caissie Ready for the understatement of the year? The 2026 Mets are frustrating. On the one hand, I love that they’re playing the kids, instead of giving no-longer-deserved time to Proven Veterans™. The latest kid? 2025 Momentary Met Jonathan Pintaro, whose inaugural 2026 outing went a lot better than his last one. Progress! Pintaro joins the likes […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Grizzled Veterans, Jonathan Pintaro, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Rookies A run was Benged in. A run was Brujáned in. Two runs were Batyed in. Another two runs were Benged in. Two more runs were Bichetted in. All of it happened in one extra inning, in which two other runs were batted in by players whose names begin with a letter that wasn’t B, which […] |
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