 
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. |
It’s a baseball rule: Things get weird in Denver. Imagine you were a Rockies fan who followed the schedule and dutifully showed up at the start time indicated for each game of your team’s three-game set against the Mets. (And why wouldn’t you, after seeing the Rockies whoop up on the Mets back in Queens?) Monday? Guess […] The Mets beat the Angels (!) Sunday afternoon to take the series (!!), looking impressive in all aspects of the game in doing so. And, as is usually the case when a team that’s been struggling unstruggles, the reaction was, “Gee, was that so hard?” (Well, my other reaction was “Fuck you, Kurt Suzuki,” but I […] Through five innings Friday night, the Mets were in a familiar place in Anaheim, one that seemed straightforward to write about even though I really, really didn’t want to. They were down 3-0 to the Angels and the relatively unheralded Walbert Urena, and they looked like a team in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. […] Nolan McLean keeps getting better and better — but not even he can escape the Mets. In just his 12th start as a big leaguer (!!!), McLean was nicked for a first-inning run but looked sparkling after that, making the best team in baseball look downright silly for the rest of a long night at Dodger […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Vesia, Brooks Raley, Dodgers, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Jacob deGrom, Kyle Tucker, Noah Syndergaard, Nolan McLean, Pitchers Hitting, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bo Bichette knows baseball pretty well, having played a lot of it — and seeing a bunch more before he did that professionally, what with being the child of a fairly renowned big leaguer. So he knows perfectly well that baseball is unpredictable, maddening and shot through with ironies big and small. Like my blog partner, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Cardinals, Carlos Mendoza, Chaim Bloom, Clay Holmes, Devin Williams, Kyle Leahy, New Busch Stadium, St. Louis, The Gateway Arch Sucks, Tim Leiper, Tobias Myers 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 Defiance isn’t really in our wheelhouse as Mets fans. Hope? Sure. The sunny version sometimes, though generally that’s only seen in the abstract. Stubborn, scared, trampled but still inexhaustible hope? Now we’re talking — whenever Tug McGraw‘s famous YA GOTTA BELIEVE is invoked, I hear not just the hope but also the desperation — the burden […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Booing, Brandon Sproat, Brooks Raley, Chris Devenski, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Siri, M. Donald Grant, Nationals, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tug McGraw, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor, Wild Card We’re all exhausted, so let’s hurry through the first seven or so innings of Sunday’s desperate affair against the Rangers: A young pitcher was great, the Mets hit a little though not a lot, Carlos Mendoza made an understandable though anxiety-provoking move to get aforementioned young pitcher out amid early signs that the roof might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adolis Garcia, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cody Freeman, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Ezequiel Duran, Josh Smith, Juan Soto, Kyle Higashioka, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luis Curvelo, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Reed Garrett, Rowdy Tellez, Ryne Stanek, Walk-Off Wins Before the Labor Day matinee against the Tigers, a friend asked me an alarming question: Who are the Mets’ starters for a playoff series? Kodai Senga? He’s been awful since returning from injury and Carlos Mendoza didn’t exactly offer a ringing, unambiguous vote of confidence about him remaining in the rotation. David Peterson? Bad start has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Comerica Park, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starting Pitching, Surviving Our Bullpen, Tigers The best chance for Mets fans to enjoy some happy days rather than endure more dog days as mid-August inevitably commences shedding summer will appear on the Citi Field mound this afternoon when Nolan McLean makes his major league debut. I was going to call it his hotly anticipated major league debut, but it’s almost […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Mariners, Nolan McLean, Pratt & McClain, Rock Bottom, Ryan Helmsley, Sean Manaea, SuperBullpen, Tyler Rogers, Urban Myth |
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