 
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. |
Well, if you want to view the glass as an eighth full, I suppose Seth Lugo solved the Mets’ bullpen-availability problem. A night after watching Max Scherzer do maximum damage to the Braves, the Mets turned to David Peterson, who wasn’t nearly as flashy as his ace counterpart but was pretty damn good, ping-ponging between his […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Buck Showalter, Bullpen, David Peterson, Matt Olson, Seth Lugo Tuesday night’s Mets triumph in Philadelphia may have been the least convincing 8-4 victory in the history of 8-4 victories, but the key words here are “triumph” and “victory,” both of which the Mets achieved. The win column greets them with no hesitation. Fortunately, the Style Council is not authorized to award points within the National […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Bullpen, Dom Smith, Jeurys Familia, Marcus Stroman, Miguel Castro, Pete Alonso, Trevor May If you’ve been reading us for the last two years (in which case thank you, by the way), you know that I think Mickey Callaway is a bit dim. That said, I have sympathy for him right now. A fair amount of it, in fact. He’s got a closer who can’t be relied on, a setup guy […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Josh Donaldson, Managers, Mickey Callaway, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz I put off writing the recap of Friday night’s Mets baseball — the completion of Thursday’s suspended game and Friday’s regularly scheduled contest with the Cardinals — in hopes that a night’s sleep would take the sting out of it. Oh ha ha ha ha ha. Nope, in the clear light of morning it hurts just as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brodie Van Wagenen, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Paul DeJong, Pitchers Hitting, Vexing Losses Sunday was sunny and warm, one of those days where spring tells you that despite recent events, the world will soon be habitable on a more or less regular basis. Emily and I had worked through all manner of errands and items on our separate to-do lists, so we decided that … we could go to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Citi Field, Food, Lack of Food, Luis Avilan, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Tim Peterson, Walks, Zack Wheeler Now — and again — pitching and batting ninth for the New York Mets, Number Twenty-Seven… Jay-uh-reese… There haven’t been too many Mets whose first name gets pronounced with such diversity, but however […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Free Agents, Jeurys Familia, Recidivist Mets Perhaps it was Mets Sensory Overload having gotten to me — Jay Horwitz’s expansive valedictory Wednesday afternoon; the practically literally endless rain delay Wednesday night; David Wright finally saying “uncle” to reality and telling us early Thursday afternoon when we could expect to see him play next and last — that […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, David Wright, Don Mattingly, Endings, Expectations, Jason Vargas, Jay Horwitz, Michael Conforto, Pitchers Hitting, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Young MC When the Mets struck for two tying runs in the eighth inning and then the winning run in the ninth Saturday night, I thought of the ghoulish if sort of logical question that gets asked after aviation disasters and applied it to our at least temporarily aloft carrier of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Boxes, Bullpen, Catchers, Devin Mesoraco, Steven Matz, Travin d'Arwecki, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores Remember when Jose Reyes not getting hits and Matt Harvey not getting outs were the Mets’ only pressing problems? Good times. The Reyes some of us stubbornly love and remember returned Saturday night in Atlanta, tweeting playfully “Jose Reyes will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Braves, Bullpen, Dave Kingman, Hadji the Cat, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Long Season, Matt Harvey If there was a way to lose Wednesday night, the Mets were going to find it. The bullpen was terrible. The bullpen was terribly managed. The hitters turned a gimme into a gag me. Just a complete and utter disaster. Insult to injury: said meltdown came against the Padres, who sure don’t look like a team capable […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Curtis Granderson, Fernando Salas, Hansel Robles, Horribleness, Hunter Renfroe, Idiotic Managing, Josh Smoker, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Neil Ramirez, Padres, Terry Collins |
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