 
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. |
The Mets, who’d looked so plucky since the trade deadline, seem to have settled back into their extended sag. On Thursday night nothing went right: Sean Manaea was horrid, getting tattooed by the Brewers and adding insult to his own injury by alligator-arming a throw to first, giving Jackson Chourio an extra out which he turned […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Brewers, Francisco Alvarez, Injuries, Jackson Chourio, Jacob Misiorowski, Jared Young, Jeff Passan, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea, Tommy John Surgery The good part of Wednesday night’s game? It was Faith and Fear reunited for the first time since the 2024 postseason, sitting together waaaaay up in the seats where you duck your head to avoid the bellies of planes. We had a grand time taking stock of Andy Green, the Mets’ future prospects, retired numbers, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Blowouts, Brewers, Dustin May, Robert Stock, Squirrels Tuesday night at Citi Field was a game for icons. Dolly Parton’s music played to seemingly unanimous approval, one of those ballpark as public square moments that reminds a person that when something or somebody needs to be commemorated or celebrated — even if the subject isn’t baseball — a ballpark is the place to […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Dave Kingman, Dolly Parton, Francisco Lindor, Icons, Moment of Silence, Rey Ordonez, Ryder Chasin An oddity as this odd Mets season winds down is that I have remind myself Andy Green‘s top priority isn’t winning games. That’s always welcome, but not job one — job one is to conduct a quasi-instructional camp, in which new guys and new situations get tried out to see what might work in some […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Austin Warren, Bo Bichette, Brewers, Christopher Morel, David Hamilton, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Jefry Yan, Jonathan Pintaro, Kyle Harrison, Luis Robert Jr., Nate Lavender, Relief Pitching, Trevor Megill, William Contreras, Zac Thornton 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 Remember the long-ago ad in which they switched a fancy restaurant’s presumably fancy coffee for Folgers crystals? A similar experiment seemed to have happened in Milwaukee Tuesday night. That was platinum glover Brice Turang looking oddly lethargic on a Carson Benge grounder that wound up bringing in two critical runs, and that was the Milwaukee infield […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Brice Turang, Carson Benge, Dallas Green, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Luis Robert Jr., Pat Murphy, Zac Thornton I’m a little worried about Freddy Peralta. To be clear, I’m not worried about Peralta himself — he’s a rich man, one who’ll soon have a new employer, maybe one who can figure out what’s gone so thoroughly awry with his pitching this season. No, I’m worried about how I react to him. I’ve gone from […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Stearns, Freddy Peralta, Jacob Misiorowski Just the other day the Mets rode some goodwill across the country from San Diego, goodwill that lingered through an off-day in which the Knicks took up all the city’s oxygen anyway, but was still ready to be tapped at Citi Field on a lovely Tuesday night. Well, so much for that. The Mets squandered all that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Cardinals, David Stearns, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Jett Williams, Jorge Polanco, Marcus Semien What is it with the Mets, the Marlins and Game 161s? (Games 161? Anyway.) I’m generally allergic to tidy narratives, but this one was undeniable: John Maine in 2007, Johan Santana in 2008 … and now Clay Holmes in 2025. No, Holmes didn’t go all the way. But that’s nitpicking — he’s a converted reliever who’s way […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Eury Perez, Jeff McNeil, Johan Santana, John Maine, Marlins, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, Reds, Shea Stadium, Soilmaster Stadium, Tom Glavine, Wild Card The Mets were playing the Brewers Saturday night. I had recap. I went to see “Superman” with my family — a movie I’d already seen. I did that because I’d reached the point where I can’t stand this team, which right now combines a deep-rooted cruddiness with a magnetic attraction to disaster. Knowing they’ll find a way to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Eric Chavez, Francisco Lindor, Jeremy Barnes, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Steve Cohen, William Contreras |
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