 
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. |
Go Mets. Better yet, go away Mets. And stay away. For about a week. Then come back. Clear your heads. Fill your bats. Get hits. Several per inning. Find your inner line drive in Philadelphia. Keep your ropes frozen in St. Louis. Anybody who boos you at your next two stops means it. Anybody who booed you at […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1-0 losses, Audible Discontent, Jacob deGrom, Offensive Futility, Welcome Road Trips After the Nationals were thoroughly dismantled by Jacob deGrom Friday night, even the defeated team’s social-media gang had to acknowledge his insane dominance: Sometimes you’ve just gotta tip your cap. FINAL // Nats 0, Mets 6 pic.twitter.com/Bi0Re8wPhV — Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 24, 2021 A classy gesture! And on Twitter, no less! The next day, deGrom’s Met teammates […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Moscoso, Jacob deGrom, Joe Ross, Marcus Stroman, Michael Conforto, Stephen Tarpley “Don’t ever embarrass anybody by comparing him to…” might read as the beginning of a familiar quote from Reds manager Sparky Anderson, uttered at the conclusion of the 1976 World Series. Thurman Munson of the losing Yankees hit .529 in the four-game Cincinnati sweep. His catching counterpart, Johnny Bench, hit .533 and won Most Valuable […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Beyond Comparison, George Burns, Jacob deGrom, Pitching Brilliance, Sparky Anderson, Tom Seaver Here’s a proposed rule change for baseball to consider: A team that wins the first game of a doubleheader in inspiring style doesn’t have to play the second game. They get to defer it for a day and bask in the afterglow, instead of going right back into battle and risking an emotional fallen souffle. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Coors Field, Discontent, Doubleheaders, Francisco Lindor, Gary DiSarcina, German Marquez, Jacob deGrom, Jonathan Villar, Rockies, Rule Changes, Strikeouts That’s the way Keith says it, a remnant of his California roots that’s one of his more endearing quirks, and a label worth plastering all over Saturday’s matinee against the Marlins. Jacob deGrom needed just nine pitches — all strikes — to take down the Marlins in the top of the first, blitzed through the first […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Jacob deGrom, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Keith Hernandez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Trevor Rogers Well, those were some complicated feelings to open with. Your capsule summary: Jacob deGrom was terrific, the Mets’ offense looked like the kind of patient, relentless machine that will chew opponents up, and the team even played some solid defense. Well, until the offense whiffed on multiple knockout blows, deGrom departed having thrown just 77 pitches, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Pillar, Miguel Castro, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Trevor May The pencil manufacturers of America have been enjoying boom times these past two baseball seasons, what with the folly of penning in ink anything that hasn’t happened yet becoming ever more evident. Or have you seen the Mets open the past two baseball seasons as originally scheduled? Last year is last year, but this year’s still […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Erasers, Jacob deGrom, Matt Moore, Max Scherzer, Nationals, Opening Day, Pencils “Sure we’ll be better. How in hell could we be worse?” As Spring Training prognostications coming off losing seasons go, no Met ever nailed it any better than Roger Craig did in 1963. Following a grand total of 40 wins in 1962, a pledge to not make that inaugural year look good by comparison was all […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2021 Mets, Happy Horsespit, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Roger Craig, Spring Training Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the 2012 offseason, the Mets made a controversial deal, sending knuckleball artist and fan favorite R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays for a return built around a minor-leaguer who was seen as a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2018 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bret Saberhagen, Dan Warthen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Medieval Siege Weapons, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud I applaud the Mets’ continual affirmations of confidence. You Gotta Believe should extend to belief in oneself. But after watching the Mets’ wisp-thin playoff eligibility expire in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader in Washington — and having their status confirmed in a less competitive loss in the nightcap — I’m having trouble abiding by […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Mathematically Eliminated, Matthew Broderick, Pete Alonso, Reality, Rick Porcello |
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