 
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. |
What is that baseball club that appears to know what it’s doing and then goes about doing it? Why, I do believe that’s the New York Mets. The New York Mets visited Colorado on Monday and started playing three hours before they were originally supposed to. That was very competent thinking, given the weather forecast for […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Warren, Carson Benge, Competence, Coors Field, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Rockies David Peterson was bad and then OK and then bad again and then had a chance to give the karmic wheel another shove: Mets down two in the fourth, bases loaded, James Wood at the plate, 0-2 count. The 0-2 part was positive considering Peterson has been mashed by lefties and you could argue he shouldn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Slater, David Peterson, Ludicrously Bad Baseball, Nationals, Rain, Sean Manaea “It’s :25 after the hour, time for our daily cooking segment. Chef, what do we have on the menu today?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Confusion, Cooking, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Palatability, Ronny Mauricio, Tobias Myers On Saturday I had nothing to do with the 2026 New York Mets, and honestly it was the nicest day I’d experienced in some time. Oh, Emily and I kept it Mets-adjacent: We spent the afternoon in the stands at Maimonides Park on one of those “nice in the sun” early spring days, watching the Brooklyn […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Craig Kimbrel, Cubs, David Peterson, David Stearns, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Losing Streaks, Luke Weaver, Michael Conforto, MJ Melendez, Nico Hoerner, Pete Crow-Armstrong Annnnd we’ve reached another milestone a lot earlier than we might have hoped: the season’s first game that I recap belatedly because I can’t stand the thought of reliving it. If you didn’t see Thursday night’s game, well, good on you for making better life choices than I did. The Mets largely didn’t hit, yet again […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, David Peterson, Disappointment, Giants, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea Opening Day brought balmy temperatures, runs a-plenty and good vibes. Most of Game 2, which arrived separated from Game 1 by the usual “rainouts happen” off-day, was the opposite: It was freezing, big hits were conspicuous in their absence, and the vibes were meh with a side of muttery. David Peterson was very David Peterson: mostly […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Bryan Reynolds, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Henry Davis, Hunter Barco, Jake Mangum, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Juan Soto, Justin Lawrence, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Marcell Ozuna, Mitch Keller, Pirates, Richard Lovelady, Walkoffs Previously on Flashback Friday… A little piece of me is always watching the Mets in 1970. Mostly I was enchanted with the possibility that the Mets would win the World Series in 1975. I was in love with the 1980 Mets. They weren’t the first Mets team I was ever hung up on, but I think, given where […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Andres Gimenez, David Peterson, Flashback Friday, Mad Men, Obscurity, Pete Alonso, Tom Seaver, Yoenis Cespedes 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 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 My whole life as a sports fan, I’ve seen teams seek “Wild Card” spots in playoffs and understood Wild Card to mean “not a division winner,” without ever really stopping to think of the term’s implication away from sports. To be certain I had it straight, I went to the dictionary (well, a dictionary site) […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Devenski, David Peterson, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Unknown, Unpredictable |
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