 
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. |
April! Baseball’s back! Hope is dewy and seemingly inexhaustible! The calendar makes sense again! All true, and thank goodness for that. But April isn’t just opportunity — it’s also necessity. Including relearning some hard baseball lessons. On Thursday night the Mets took a 1-0 lead to the seventh behind Nolan McLean. That lone skinny run came courtesy […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  ABS, Bad Relief Pitching, Brett Baty, Diamondbacks, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gabriel Moreno, Ildemaro Vargas, James McCann, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game started three hours earlier than originally slated due to frigid conditions at Citi Field, but that happened the day before, so…no, not that interesting nor noteworthy. It would be kind of interesting to note Wednesday’s Mets-Diamondbacks game got all nine tops of innings pitched by […] So there had to be a few Mets fans who popped up from the couch Tuesday afternoon, with the top of the fifth inning just concluded, to hit the loo, walk the dog or perform some other mundane task. Perhaps they did so with a certain spring in their step: Huascar Brazoban had just rescued […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Carson Benge, Diamondbacks, Freddy Peralta, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Mark Vientos, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Walkoffs By the time 2026 rolled around I had a long-established relationship with spring training: I’d put the first televised game on my calendar, watch the initial 20 minutes with avid interest, watch the next 20 with vague attention, and then either be looking at my phone or asleep. And after that I’d wait for the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Al Lang Stadium, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clover Park, Daulton Varsho, David Stearns, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Grant Rogers, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Port St. Lucie, Shea Stadium, Spring Training, St. Lucie Mets, Wally Backman “Say, the new baseball season is coming.” 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Abbott and Costello, Answers, Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, First Base, Jorge Polanco, Juan Soto, Left Field, Magnetic Schedules, Mark Vientos, Mets Promotions, Pocket Schedules, Questions, Right Field, Snow, Spring Training, Third Base, Tickets, Versatility As a connoisseur of postgame media scrums, I recognize a no-win question when I hear it. No-win questions are asked after brutal losses that carry almost definitive consequences. It almost doesn’t matter how the question is answered. The question just has to be asked. The no-win question that was asked of Carlos Mendoza following the Mets’ […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad “The Animal” Lesley, Brandon Sproat, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Dylan Ross, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Media Scrums, Mistakes, No-Win Questions, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Sandy Alcantara, The Odd Couple, Tyler Phillips Here’s an interesting exercise: consider how we would have assessed Thursday’s Mets-Cubs finale if it had come in June, or even mid-August. I probably would have led with an acknowledgment of how much Brett Baty has grown as a player, on both sides of the ball. Baty’s three-run homer off Shota Imanaga in the third made […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Defense, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Rules, Ryne Stanek, Seiya Suzuki, Shota Imanaga, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor Here’s a sign of progress: The Mets lost, and I wasn’t mad at them. Last week? I was incensed to an unhealthy degree by everything they did wrong, waiting with teeth bared for them to shoot themselves in the foot again. But Wednesday night? Yes, David Peterson gave up a grand slam to turn a 2-2 […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, David Peterson, Dom Hamel, Elias Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Luis Arraez, Manny Machado, Mark Vientos, Mason Miller, Padres, Pete Alonso, Robert Suarez Did any fanbase need a laugher more than we did? OK, maybe Tuesday night wasn’t exactly a laugher — call it a chuckler, perhaps — but a five-run first and a pair of homers in the second took away a lot of the tension, allowing us to monitor the “piggyback” experiment that saw Sean Manaea take […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Michael King, Padres, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea “Show a little faith! There’s magic in the night!” That’s one of Bruce Springsteen’s best-known exhortations, a commandment for wavering lovers, teetering dreamers and yes, fans of oddly underwhelming baseball fans. But until Tuesday night, it had largely fallen flat where the 2025 Mets were concerned. Until Tuesday night, but not forever. Game two of the seven-game, two-city […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Bryce Harper, Carlos Mendoza, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, Jesus Luzardo, Jhoan Duran, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Orion Kerkering, Parabolic Microphones, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Ryan Helsley, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Willie Traynor |
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