 
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. |
It was inevitable that the mind would go back to August 2005 and Mike Cameron and Carlos Beltran lying in the outfield grass in San Diego. That was an afternoon game in California, which meant it was on at the end of the workday here in New York. I heard the collision as I walked out […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Nola, Carlos Beltran, David Ross, Don Hahn, George Theodore, Injuries, Jared Young, Marlon Anderson, Mike Cameron, Nolan McLean, Outfield Collisions, Phillies, Ray Ramirez, Willie Randolph Take that, overdogs! Putting up 12 runs against the Yankees in their home park won’t change anything about October or much about the trajectory of a disappointing Mets season, but boy was it ever a satisfying way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Francisco Lindor led off with a line-drive homer into the short porch on Gerrit Cole‘s […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Carson Benge, Cody Bellinger, Francisco Lindor, Gerrit Cole, Injuries, Jared Young, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Managers, New Yankee Stadium, Nolan McLean, Subway Series, Tobias Myers, Yankees, Zac Thornton The Mets, who’d looked so plucky since the trade deadline, seem to have settled back into their extended sag. On Thursday night nothing went right: Sean Manaea was horrid, getting tattooed by the Brewers and adding insult to his own injury by alligator-arming a throw to first, giving Jackson Chourio an extra out which he turned […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brewers, Francisco Alvarez, Injuries, Jackson Chourio, Jacob Misiorowski, Jared Young, Jeff Passan, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea, Tommy John Surgery Well, they didn’t lose 12-0. Nope, on Tuesday night the Mets fell behind 4-0 in the first, but then won the rest of the game 3-1, which is a roundabout way of saying they lost 5-3. Kodai Senga somehow only gave up two hits over four innings, but those two hits came in the form of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Futility, Injuries, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Reds, Ron Darling, Sean Manaea The Long Island Rail Road is on strike, while the one Met pitcher who’s stayed on track more consistently than any other is out of service. Any other good news from Friday night? Oh yeah, the Mets reverted to moribund form in losing the first game of the Subway Series, 5-2. Not a shining moment for […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Fractured Fibula, Injuries, LIRR Strike, Subway Series In The Year The Mets Lost Last Place, Ron Santo is spotted in the visitors’ dugout at Shea Stadium, prior to the afternoon game of July 8, 1969, examining the Mets’ starting lineup, one whose components had helped elevate the home team a surprising eleven games over .500 and an even more shocking five games […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Andy Ibañez, Angels, Anonymity, Austin Slater, Bench Mob, Bo Bichette, Eric Wagaman, Injuries, Nolan McLean, Ron Santo, Vidal Bruján, Video Review, Yiddish We once had a Squirrel, or should I say, last night he had us. I’ll cop to a touch of Jeff McNeil nostalgia after our longtime second baseman/first-rate handyman returned to Citi Field from the wilds of West Sacramento to take a bite out of his former workplace associates on Friday, getting hot at the plate […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Craig Kimbrel, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hamstrings, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Max Muncy, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Shea Langeliers 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 Two out of three from Milwaukee…where have we heard that one before? If it wasn’t quite October 2024 at American Family Field in July 2025 at Citi Field Thursday night, at least it wasn’t any more of the second half of this June seeping into this July. Maybe this July will tell a different story […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Peterson, Injuries, Jose Quintana, Paul Blackburn, Replay Review, Warm Bodies, Wee Willie Keeler, Zach Pop Is this glass half-empty or half-full? Griffin Canning left early with an ankle injury, one that looked innocuous on the field but decidedly less so when Canning had to be helped to the dugout. (It appears to be an Achilles injury, which would quite likely be season-ending.) But even as dark clouds gathered overhead, the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Warren, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Edwin Diaz, Grant Holmes, Griffin Canning, Hope, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Ryne Stanek, Uniforms |
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