 
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. |
We had guests up here at the house in Maine, so when I got to belatedly check on the Mets I did a double take. NYM 5, ATL 2? Really? Really. A little sleuthing revealed that Brett Baty had ambushed Bryce Elder with his first career grand slam, following an oh so modern bit of confusion […] I shouldn’t be surprised, given how baseball is riddled with ironies, and yet I am: A team about to undergo a trade-deadline sea change is playing its best ball of the season. (The transformation is already underway, as the Mets have traded A.J. Minter to the Twins for a pair of prospects: Bruin Agbayani, the 19-year-old […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Minter, Billy Amick, Bo Bichette, Brooks Raley, Bruin Agbayani, Carson Benge, Devin Williams, Eury Perez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Luis Robert Jr., Marlins, Michael Petersen, Trade Deadline, Twins Zac Thornton and a band of relievers were good. The Mets’ bats were better — 19 hits, including three each from A.J. Ewing, Francisco Lindor, Bo Bichette, Marcus Semien and Tyrone Taylor. Lindor had two home runs on a huge night, Semien smashed one into the second deck, and Taylor hit a longball as he […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Braves, Connor Thomas, Francisco Estrada, Francisco Lindor, Marcus Semien, Tyrone Taylor, Walt Weiss, Zac Thornton A lesser-known quote from the great Rogers Hornsby has been on my mind recently: “People ask me what I do in summer when there’s baseball like this. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for winter.” Today is Greg’s recap, I plan to be on the East River in a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Brock Stewart, Carson Benge, David Stearns, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dodgers, Errors, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Jorge Polanco, Kyle Tucker, Marcus Semien, Nolan McLean, Rogers Hornsby, Tyrone Taylor Remember the long-ago ad in which they switched a fancy restaurant’s presumably fancy coffee for Folgers crystals? A similar experiment seemed to have happened in Milwaukee Tuesday night. That was platinum glover Brice Turang looking oddly lethargic on a Carson Benge grounder that wound up bringing in two critical runs, and that was the Milwaukee infield […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Bo Bichette, Brandon Sproat, Brewers, Brice Turang, Carson Benge, Dallas Green, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Jared Young, Luis Robert Jr., Pat Murphy, Zac Thornton This lost season has brought some actual good developments, among them Emily and I embracing the joys of “ambient baseball.” That’s baseball as an amiable companion, welcomed but not fussed over, and happening nearby as you have a conversation or eat something or just enjoy a peaceful moment. You can make an MLB game into ambient […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Chris Suero, Christian Arroyo, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Lindor, Kevin Parada, Mirabito Stadium, NBT Bank Stadium, Nick Morabito, Nolan McLean, Phillies, R.J. Gordon, Road Trips, Rob Gardner, Robert Stock, Syracuse Mets, The Rob Gardner Game, Tobias Myers On Thursday evening, the Mets saw fire, or at least the haze from the smoke that wafted down to Philadelphia from Canada, and responded well, all climate conditions considered. On Saturday afternoon, the Mets saw rain. A start time accelerated by an hour and an eventual 48-minute delay didn’t keep them from appearing all wet. The James […] On July 12, 2015, a curious Met void was filled when Kirk Nieuwenhuis homered not once, not twice, but thrice at Citi Field, leading his team over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-3, in the final game before the All-Star break. Until that Sunday afternoon, no Met had ever hit three home runs in a home […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Devin Williams, Elton John, Francisco Lindor, Game Before the All-Star Break, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Luke Weaver, Patent-Pending Losses, Red Sox, Team History, Worsts, Zach Thornton So let’s see. The Mets… …turned Sean Manaea‘s sixth pitch of the game into a 1-0 deficit, as Juan Soto let what should have been a George Springer single bounce over his head, after which it also eluded A.J. Ewing, allowing Springer to dash pell mell around the bases and score. …hit about eight zillion balls on […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bo Bichette, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, George Springer, Joey Gerber, Juan Soto, Louis Varland, Ronny Mauricio, Sean Manaea, Tyler Rogers It generally happens this way: A team that can’t get out of its own way finally gets out of its own way, and in the aftermath you’re left blinking in surprise and wondering, “What was so hard about that?” Not that the Mets made it easy from the jump on Saturday. Bryce Harper connected for a […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Alan Rangel, Bo Bichette, Bryce Harper, Christian Scott, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, Phillies |
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