Jacob deGrom was pitching his usual brilliant game, en route to shutting out the Atlanta Braves long enough to convince us the worst-case scenario Wednesday night would involve how the bullpen would blow the slim lead he protected, assuming the Mets ever figured out how to score a […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Holding Our Breath, Injuries, J.J. Putz, Jacob deGrom Remember that bruise on Kevin Plawecki’s mitt hand from Wednesday night’s game, the one that was declared just a bruise once x-rays were reported as negative? You will when you look for Plawecki behind the plate and see no trace of him. The hand, we learned from the Post’s Mike Puma Friday morning, is broken from […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Catchers, Dan Rather, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Johnny Monell, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Mets Catchers, Miguel Montero, Mike Piazza, Ron Hodges, Team History, Tomas Nido, Travin d'Arwecki, Travis d'Arnaud We begin, as we apparently sometimes do, in June 2014 in Miami. Zack Wheeler‘s best career start remains the one he turned in against these same Marlins that June 19. (Though we really are talking laundry: Justin Bour is the lone holdover from that squad.) In that game Wheeler faced the minimum 24 batters over the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Heaney, Don Mattingly, Injuries, Jarlin Garcia, Marlins, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler Somehow Matt Harvey‘s in his seventh season as a New York Met. Which means he’s seen some shit. Some of the troubles that have attached themselves to Harvey like so many barnacles have been typical New York bullshit, ginned up by the profoundly cynical sports-talk industry for which our town is ground zero. But some of them […] Someday Spring Training will be over. I’m basing that solely on precedent and occasional commercials hawking ticket packages that include access to Opening Day. Otherwise, we’re marooned inside that Journey song that implores us to not stop believing, the one whose movie never ends, it goes on […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Astros, Big Shirtless Noah, Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Injuries, Jim Bouton, Jonathan Lucroy, Journey, March, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Rafael Montero, Spring Training, Terry's Kids, Travin d'Arwecki, Yo La Tengo, Yoenis Cespedes Thinking along the lines of “fewer clients, less money” got Jerry Maguire booted from Sports Management International, but I’ll dare to express one of The Things We Think And Do Not Say: Spring Training shouldn’t have started so soon. Too many Spring Training baseball games in February are unnatural. Too many Spring Training baseball games in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | February, Injuries, Jerry Maguire, Spring Training, Unnatural Baseball Timing Did Citi Field seem roomier to you in 2017? There were 328,980 fewer customers paying their way into the old ballgames there than there were in 2016 — and we know paid “attendance” doesn’t fully reflect the relationship between fannies and seats. The approximate 11.8% drop in official visitation to the home of the Mets […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year Don’t trip over all the casts, crutches, slings and splints scattered along the streets of North America tonight. They were discarded this morning by Met after Met who was magically healed by the news that Ray Ramirez will no longer be training them. The sick, the lame and the day-to-day are all up on their feet, […] On Monday, the Mets scored many runs, gave up a few less, won a baseball game, and announced several of their players would be going in for surgery. It’s indicative of how 2017 has unraveled that the win seemed like the most surprising development of the bunch. The 2017 Mets have carved out a fistful of […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Injuries, Josh Edgin, Michael Conforto, Phillies, Surgeries, T.J. Rivera To paraphrase the scintilla of a solo I had in my portrayal of Senator Jack S. Phogbound in our high school’s production of Li’l Abner, of all the very ordinary, most unloved, unnecessary ballclubs on this earth, the Mets are…well, extraordinarily ordinary. That’s the problem with this team that’s been losing in copious amounts for more […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Chris Flexen, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Nori Aoki, Ordinariness, September |
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