Saddled with the understanding that your team is not going to win them all, the best a fan can hope for is an optimal sorting out of the order of inevitable losses. Take the Mets-Cubs series just completed. After competing on a stratospheric high, as the Mets did on their last homestand, they were, because […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  100-Game Winners, Brett Baty, Carlos Carrasco, Cubs, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Sanchez, Leo Durocher, Mickey Lolich, Pete Alonso, Team History After five days of electric baseball, the Mets once again look like someone pulled the plug out of the wall. At least — and those are never good words to see up high in a recap — this time they didn’t look flat enough to slip under a door, the way they did in the opener […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Marcus Stroman, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Starling Marte, Wrigley Field The 2023 Mets were expected to do big things. For the first 43 games of this season, they resisted those expectations. Then came last week: Games 44 through 48, each won by one run, each won after at some point trailing; each won as affirmation that the expectations were merited; each furnishing evidence that sometimes […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Christopher Morel, Drew Smyly, Francisco Alvarez, Late Spring, Magic, Michael Fulmer, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Soft Breezes, Steve Henderson, Turnarounds, Vida Blue I was in Boston this weekend for my niece’s med-school graduation, which meant the Mets took a back seat to family doings. But not much of a back seat, seeing how it was me and all — the Mets went about their business in my ear, via GameDay and my watch face, on my phone […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baby Mets, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Guardians, Howie Rose, Jose Ramirez, Justin Verlander, Mark Vientos, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred, Shane Bieber, Starling Marte In the spirit of the Baseball Writers Association of America members with whom I rubbed or at least grazed elbows Friday night, I humbly submit my ballot for Most Valuable Angle from the 10-9 ten-inning Mets win over the Guardians. 1) MY PRESENCE IN THE CITI FIELD PRESS BOX 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arnold Hano, Brett Baty, Buck Showalter, Citi Kids, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Guardians, Interleague Play, Mark Vientos, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Press Box Decorum For most of Wednesday night, my only thought was that feeling pain because of the Mets was actually progress: better writhing in agony than sitting dour and numb watching another night of bad baseball, as we have for the last three and a half weeks. Kodai Senga was the best he’s looked as a Met, with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Comebacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Hope, Jose Siri, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Pete Fairbanks, Rays, Rookies, Walkoffs The Mets have been both bad and unwatchable for the better part of two weeks, so Tuesday night counted as progress: They were watchable. Watchable, as they fought back after being put in a deep hole by David Peterson, Stephen Nogosek, and (one could argue) the umpiring crew, which missed a ball headed for Francisco Lindor‘s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, David Peterson, Ejections, Francisco Alvarez, Frustration, Losing, Mark Canha, Reds, Stephen Nogosek, Wil Myers Francisco Alvarez went up and got it. The pitch, from Tyler Rogers, was measured at 3.87 feet off the ground. It looked higher. It flew higher. It flew over Oracle Park’s left field fence, which is eight feet high. After going up, getting it, and sending it for an aerial ride, Alvarez had every right […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, OPS+, Patience, Progress, Promise Try to remember that Francisco Alvarez is all of 21. The kid was the last out of Tuesday night’s game against the Padres, batting with the tying run on second. He was facing Josh Hader, whose wildness had gotten him into trouble that inning but arguably served him well against Alvarez. Hader threw two balls to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, David Weathers, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Hader, Padres, Rookies, Ryan Weathers, Xander Bogaerts Sunday was another at least mildly notable first for the still-young 2023 season, and unfortunately I’m not referring to the sophomore-year debut of Francisco Alvarez. Our catcher of the future went one for four, with the one a dunker of an RBI single, while making some good throws to second and one bad one. One […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryan De La Cruz, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Alvarez, Garrett Cooper, Marlins, Starling Marte |
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