 
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. |
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 In the bottom of the fourth, the Cubs tacked on a run when Pete Alonso couldn’t get properly set to take a Jeff McNeil throw from second. The error properly belonged to Pete but went on McNeil’s ledger, becoming his second miscue in as many plays. More importantly, it made the score 6-1 Cubs, with what […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Caleb Thielbar, Comebacks, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Seiya Suzuki, Taylor Rogers, Tyler Rogers, Wild Card Hey Mets fans? Which National League teams do you hate? The most common answer is that we hate — in the operatic sports pantomime sense of the word, you understand — the Braves and the Phillies. This is the way of the world, as those two teams are our principal antagonists in the National League East. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Clay Holmes, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Hatred, Jameson Taillon, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Kyle Tucker, Phillies, White Sox By the time Saturday afternoon rolled around our 2024 beach vacation was at an end: house cleaned, last Long Beach Island breakfast consumed, farewells said, and car filled for the trip back to Brooklyn, the heat wave we’d been happy to miss, and normal life. Heading up the Garden State Parkway, your correspondent was frankly weary. […] Here’s a list of what I did Thursday during our week of vacation on Long Beach Island: bike ride That’s a pretty damn good day, one I felt absurdly lucky to get to enjoy. The ballgame was the last couple of innings of the Giants and the Cardinals at Birmingham’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Joe Hudson, Jose Iglesias, Laughers, Luis Torrens, Shota Imanaga, Tomas Nido, Wrigley Field Francisco Lindor didn’t start Thursday afternoon’s game, much as he didn’t finish Wednesday night’s. He was said to be suffering from flulike symptoms. As someone who’s been enduring some of those myself, I can relate. I don’t have a Joey Wendle standing by to fill in for me, however. Wendle was an All-Star as recently […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, Cat Makeup, Christian Scott, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Flu, Francisco Lindor, Joey Wendle, Miguel Amaya, Omar Narvaez, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Pinch-Running, Shota Imanaga, Spider-Man, Starling Marte, Urgency Pete was actually out, and no, Miguel Amaya wasn’t blocking the plate, or at least not sufficiently to arouse the ire of officialdom. And even if he had been blocking the plate, the Buster Posey rule is stupid. Good decision to send Pete — unfortunately Nick Madrigal made a perfect relay throw, and so he […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, City Connect, Cubs, Ian Happ, Jose Butto, Miguel Amaya, Nick Madrigal, Pete Alonso, Replay Review, Shota Imanaga I know you don’t want to hear it right now, but that was a great game. It zipped along taut and tense, it featured a great pitchers’ duel and a brush with history, it turned on a player’s split-second decision, and it ended with a crushing reversal of fortune. If you were in the park — […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Fundies, Brandon Nimmo, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Disgusting Losses, Edwin Diaz, Jameson Taillon, Joe Wallis, Joey Wendle, Luis Guillorme, Luis Severino, No-Hit Bids, Tom Seaver Oh, how quickly things can change. Who’d even heard of Phil Bickford 10 days ago? And yet tonight there I was cheering energetically for Bickford to get out of a straitjacket against the Cubs and give the Mets a win — in a rubber game, no less. I could say I was on the edge of my […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Booing, Christopher Morel, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Ian Happ, Phil Bickford, Rene Rivera Baseball is a sport of long-term truths that fight their way out of short-term noise, so the Mets winning a rain-interrupted laugher over the Cubs was only a surprise from an emotional standpoint: It had been pretty obvious to us loyal diehards doughty faithful pathetic masochists that they would never win another game in 2023, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Cubs, Danny Mendick, Ian Happ, Kodai Senga, Laughers, Pete Alonso |
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