 
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. |
Jacob deGrom’s pitching is transcendent. Wins, losses and no-decisions have all but ceased to matter. Prospective Cy Young voting feels irrelevant. Track all the statistics you like, but they’re just numbers. Measurements capture only so much of what makes deGrom an avatar of practically unprecedented excellence.
How can you have a recap when you don’t have a final score yet? When that final score’s yet to be recorded but the show everyone came to see is over. That’s how. No offense to Seth Lugo, Steve Cishek or whatever Met and Cub relievers follow them when the game resumes, tied 1-1, in the 10th. […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Jackson, Brandon Nimmo, Cubs, Jacob deGrom, Javy Baez, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Rain Delays, Suspended Games I just started reading a book I’ve had around for a while, The Greatest Game Ever Pitched by Jim Kaplan. It’s a deep dive into the legendary sixteen-inning 1-0 duel between Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal in 1963 and wisely includes a statistical section. For frame of reference, I […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Frustration, Gary Johnson, Jacob deGrom, Jose Bautista, Juan Marichal, Madison Bumgarner, Max Scherzer, Midweek Matinees, Ray Stevens, Sandy Koufax, Tony Randazzo, US Open, Warren Spahn The Mets won an actually fun game Wednesday night: Noah Syndergaard looked solid for six innings, Jeff McNeil kept hitting, and three Mets (Todd Frazier, Dom Smith and Jose Bautista) cracked solo home runs as the forces of good kept the Giants down. Entertaining games in garbage time are better than games to be endured, which […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard There’s a reflexive wariness in listening to discussions of great pitchers of other eras, a little voice that pipes up to remind you that while those hurlers were undoubtedly amazing, stories have a way of growing in the telling. I saw Bob Gibson strike out 22 Reds during a tornado that tore the facade right off […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Carlos Santana, Cy Young, Great American Ball Park, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Nationals Park, Nick Williams, Phillies, PNC Park, Reds, Rhys Hoskins, Wilson Ramos How many ways, exactly, can one game be a make-up date? The obvious: the Mets and Yankees reported for duty in the Bronx to complete the July half of this year’s Subway Series, which had been erased by rain. Despite an extremely wet morning in New York and a brief in-game squall, the second try proceeded […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, ESPN, Jacob deGrom, Keith Olbermann, Rain, Yankees Dear New York Mets Fan: We are writing to thank you for your generous contribution of a bunt against the shift. Thoughtful Mets fans like you have been sending us what they can to provide offensive assistance for our ace […] Following my attendance for his 22nd start of the season Friday night, Jacob deGrom and I can each count 12 decisions on our 2018 ledger. Twelve times this year I’ve decided to be at Citi Field for a Mets game. Some would question the judgment of anybody who chooses […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Friday Nights, Jacob deGrom, Locked Citi Field Men's Rooms, Losing, Moneyball The new Metropolitan standard of excellence by way of archaic statistics is Five Wins and Six Losses. That’s right, 5-6. Never mind the likes of 25-7, 19-10, 22-9, 24-4 or 20-6. Move over, Messrs. Seaver (those first three), Gooden and Dickey. You were Amazin’ in your respective […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 5-6 Pitchers, Carlos Torres, Charlie Williams, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Kobel, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tug McGraw On a night when the Daily News didn’t send a reporter to Citi Field to cover the Mets, the Mets didn’t necessarily make news worth covering. That is if you subscribe to the theory that mundane “dog bites man” and “Mets bite in general” events don’t much amount to news.
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