Horrible weather, horrible offseason, horrible everything. You know what might put some pep in our collective step? Looking back at guys who made their Mets debuts during the horrible 2023 season! Some of these guys have already vanished from memory; others we merely wish we could unremember. Like I said, horrible. But they matriculated in […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2023 Mets, Abraham Almonte, Adam Kolarek, Anthony Kay, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, Danny Mendick, David Robertson, Dennis Santana, Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Dominic Leone, Edwin Uceta, Gary Sanchez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, John Curtiss, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Sam Coonrod, T.J. McFarland, The Holy Books, Tim Locastro, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller, Vinny Nittoli, Zach Muckenhirn Just desserts were on the Citi Field menu Wednesday night as the Mets earned their 6-5 victory over the Texas Rangers, and the Rangers just as surely earned their 6-5 defeat at the hands of the New York Mets. Had it gone the other way, all would have seemed more predestined. The Mets are the lousier […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Jeff Brigham, Joe Grahe, Jonathan Arauz, Lazy Nicknames, Losable Games Won, Rangers, Sean Reid-Foley, Travis Jankowski, Winnable Games Lost The Mets lost by the typographically correct if competitively averse score of 21-3 in Saturday afternoon’s makeup game versus the Braves, the day portion of a split-admission doubleheader necessitated by an April rainout and cruelty. The Mets were losing only 13-3 when they were using pitchers; utilityman Danny Mendick allowed eight runs in the ninth, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Blowouts, Danny Mendick, Denyi Reyes, Position Players Pitching Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes Having recently conferred “visiting scholar” status upon one Maxwell Martin Scherzer, a righthander who earned his doctorate in pitching long ago, I’ll leave it to the old professor himself to figure out what the hell is wrong with him. If it’s not physical (he says he’s fine), not mental (he won’t use the pitch clock […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brian Anderson, Cheeseheads, Denyi Reyes, Garrett Mitchell, Indoor Fireworks, Max Scherzer, Punctuation, Rowdy Tellez, Tommy Hunter, Wade Miley |
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