Francisco Lindor’s first home run as a Met came in Spring Training. I’m not thinking of anything he launched in Grapefruit League competition, but rather when he showed up at the complex in St. Lucie wearing what we’ll call the Eddie Murphy Mets jacket from the Coming to America sequel. In terms of presenting his […]
 
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. |
Even by the Mets’ standard of absurdity, the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader was something: A stately chug out to a 9-0 lead, unbelievably blowing that 9-0 lead, then somehow winning anyway. (Followed by the seemingly inevitable hangover loss.) For me the game was a blogger’s version of the tortoise and the hare: A couple of minutes […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrew Stevenson, Blown Leads, Brandon Nimmo, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Josh Rogers, Nationals, Seth Lugo “All right, I’m glad you both came. I’m glad you’ve both committed to the process. The sign of a healthy relationship is when the people in the relationship acknowledge that its health is not a given and that you have to work consistently at improving it. Emmett, I’m picking up from your body language a […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apologies, April in August, Doubleheader Sweeps, Dysfunctional Relationships, Emotional Codependency, Francisco Lindor, Gestures, Javy Baez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Suspended Games A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill Perhaps you’ve read of the unique public perception of Howard Cosell at the peak of his fame. He was simultaneously the most popular sports broadcaster of his time and the most unpopular. People loved him. People hated him. People listened when he spoke. I thought of Mets PA announcer Colin Cosell’s grandfather as I watched Javy […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Braves, Francisco Lindor, Howard Cosell, J.D. Davis, Javy Baez, Marcus Stroman, Whether to Pinch-Hit The first game after the All-Star Break is supposed to feel like a warm bath. Oh that’s better, you think as you sink back into the routine of having something to do a little after 7 or 4 or 8 or sometimes even 1 in the afternoon on the weekends. At first that little break was […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Kuhl, Francisco Lindor, I Hate Baseball, John Nogowski, Marcus Stroman, Pirates What a way to get a game going! Which is where a Mets fan of tenure turned from dispensing exclamation points to issuing question marks. The way this Mets fan of tenure saw it, there […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, All-Star Break, Blown Leads, Francisco Lindor, Gut Instinct, Kumar Rocker, Michael Conforto, Pirates “Hello, may I speak to Luis Rojas please?” 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Dave Roberts, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Rain Delays, Taijuan Walker, Ten-Run Innings One half of a season is behind the New York Mets and so is the rest of the National League East. You can’t ask for a much better situation following 81 games. The chips don’t settle that way very often. The Mets have finished the statistical first half in first place six times previously. They’ve won […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bette Midler, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Bunting, Depth, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, First Half, First Place, Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto, Neckerchiefs, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Team History, Trevor May, Tylor Megill By definition, a Sunday afternoon spent beating a pair of American League All-Stars en route to winning by five is time well spent. That’s what the Mets did on July 4, racking up four runs in 3 1/3 innings off All-Star Gerrit Cole, whose situations were as sticky as his grip might no longer be, and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Fucking Idiots, Gerrit Cole, Jose Peraza, Lucas Luetge, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Tomas Nido, Yankees |
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