“This summer, the Mets suffered so many difficult, late defeats in close games that no one on the team, surely, could have escaped the chilling interior doubt — the doubt that kills — whispering that their courage and brilliance last summer had been an illusion all the time, had been nothing but luck.”
—Roger Angell, 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. |
 32 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1970 Mets, 1971 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2025 Mets, 83-79 Records, Adam Rubin, Billy Loes, Closing Day, Dana Carvey, Dashed Hopes, Francisco Lindor, Leonard Koppett, Marlins, Mediocrity, Roger Angell, Team History, The Years After As a connoisseur of postgame media scrums, I recognize a no-win question when I hear it. No-win questions are asked after brutal losses that carry almost definitive consequences. It almost doesn’t matter how the question is answered. The question just has to be asked. The no-win question that was asked of Carlos Mendoza following the Mets’ […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad “The Animal” Lesley, Brandon Sproat, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Dylan Ross, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Media Scrums, Mistakes, No-Win Questions, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Sandy Alcantara, The Odd Couple, Tyler Phillips 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 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 Did any fanbase need a laugher more than we did? OK, maybe Tuesday night wasn’t exactly a laugher — call it a chuckler, perhaps — but a five-run first and a pair of homers in the second took away a lot of the tension, allowing us to monitor the “piggyback” experiment that saw Sean Manaea take […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooklyn Cyclones, Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Mark Vientos, Michael King, Padres, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea OK, not that kind of perfect game. You probably would have heard about it by now. But the Mets — because, if there even is a “because,” baseball season is about ebbs and flows, and the sport is essentially and elementally maddening and perverse — played a game Tuesday night that was pretty much near perfect, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, David Peterson, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nationals, Pete Alonso Perhaps the only good thing about Wednesday night’s belated loss to the Braves was that I found it hard to take it personally. I imagine it isn’t fun to watch from the root cellar as a tornado reduces the house to kindling. But I also imagine one doesn’t feel singled out to be in the path […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Collapses, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Justin Hagenman, Marcell Ozuna, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte The Mets were playing the Brewers Saturday night. I had recap. I went to see “Superman” with my family — a movie I’d already seen. I did that because I’d reached the point where I can’t stand this team, which right now combines a deep-rooted cruddiness with a magnetic attraction to disaster. Knowing they’ll find a way to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Eric Chavez, Francisco Lindor, Jeremy Barnes, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Steve Cohen, William Contreras I suppose I could take care of Sunday’s game by writing Saturday’s post backwards: The Mets zoomed from amazing back to confounding, the offense was crummy, they wound up way behind before the merciful conclusion, and a few hours later the Phillies kicked them out of first place. And all this against the Giants, who […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Bob Murphy, Brandon Sproat, Carlos Mendoza, David Stearns, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Frankie Montas, Giants, Howie Rose, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Ryne Stanek |
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