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 […]
 
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. |
 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 Emily and I spent Saturday getting to the summer house in Maine and starting to return it to a vague state of habitability, so the Mets and their adventures were less the centerpiece of Saturday’s doings and more of an accent, followed in spurts and snatches as other things transpired. Those brief looks, however, revealed the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Bullpen Use, Darryl Strawberry, David Stearns, Francisco Lindor, Giants, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Rico Garcia, Trade Deadline, Tristan Beck, Tyler Rogers The Mets fell behind in the fifth inning Sunday night, as Matt Chapman launched a second home run off Kodai Senga. That made the score 3-2 Giants with 12 outs left for making up the deficit. Funny what a six-game winning streak will do for you. “We’ll get ’em,” I assured my mother, and to my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Edwin Diaz, Giants, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Matt Chapman, Randy Rodriguez, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Trade Deadline, Willy Adames On the surface, Pete Alonso and Rafael Devers aren’t that different: Huge dudes who can hit the ball a country mile and whose huge dude-ism means they aren’t particularly mobile. As has been the case since time immemorial, that means they play first base — which is where the similarities start to break down. Alonso isn’t […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, David Peterson, Defense, Edwin Diaz, First Base, Francisco Lindor, Giants, Good Luck, Great Escapes, Joey Lucchesi, Jung Hoo Lee, Mark Vientos, Mike Yastrzemski, Patrick Bailey, Pete Alonso, Rafael Devers, Reed Garrett, Robbie Ray, Ryne Stanek Well, at least this time Mets pitchers didn’t walk anybody. Luis Severino wasn’t giving out free passes Tuesday night in San Francisco, and for four innings he wasn’t let any Giant earn his way onto the bases either. But the well ran dry in the fifth as lousy sequencing and buzzards’ luck combined to turn a […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, Late Night West Coast Games, Logan Webb, Luis Severino A team played shoddy defense. A team saw its relievers struggle. A team hit balls right at defenders. A team rallied, sent a strong hitter up in a big spot … and got nothing out of it. That’s a familiar 2023 script, and it’s what we got on Sunday night, along with ESPN personalities we hadn’t asked for. (I […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Dominic Leone, Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, Jeremy Hefner, Pete Alonso, Winning Streaks Almost everything was great Saturday. Really. The start time, Saturday afternoon at 4:10, was great. As a start time, 4:10 has élan. On any day, 1:10 can be too early, 7:10 too mundane. On a Saturday especially, 4:10 is the sweet spot. You have your day. You have your night. You have your baseball in the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Ace Frehley, Adam Ottavino, Black Cat, Brandon Nimmo, Drew Smith, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Gabe Kapler, Giants, J.D. Davis, July, Justin Verlander, LIRR, Luis Guillorme, Saturday Afternoons, Tommy Pham Was it David Robertson‘s fault, or just his turn? The Mets normally reliable post-World Baseball Classic Plan B closer was called upon to protect a 4-2 lead in the eighth against the Giants and started by striking out old friend Wilmer Flores, who’d homered earlier. (With Wilmer, J.D. Davis and a hamstrung Michael Conforto on the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Robertson, Giants, Patrick Bailey, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Pham I don’t remember when the thought first crawled into my brain. It might have been when our starting pitcher had strained his neck watching another ball explore the outermost confines of Oracle Park. Or perhaps it was when said starting pitcher was chasing down a ball caroming between fielders while Giants ran around the bases […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, David Peterson, Frustration, Giants, Jonahs, Marty Noble, Young Pitching Loyalty is strange. Not in the sense of feeling it for men decades younger than me, men I think I know but don’t in any way that matters. Though that’s certainly strange too. No, I was thinking about it in the context of how that loyalty gets transferred when those young men change — sometimes willingly and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kodai Senga, Loyalty, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea, Tristan Beck, Wilmer Flores |
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