Horrible weather, horrible offseason, horrible everything. You know what might put some pep in our collective step? Looking back at guys who made their Mets debuts during the horrible 2023 season! Some of these guys have already vanished from memory; others we merely wish we could unremember. Like I said, horrible. But they matriculated in […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2023 Mets, Abraham Almonte, Adam Kolarek, Anthony Kay, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, Danny Mendick, David Robertson, Dennis Santana, Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Dominic Leone, Edwin Uceta, Gary Sanchez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, John Curtiss, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Sam Coonrod, T.J. McFarland, The Holy Books, Tim Locastro, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller, Vinny Nittoli, Zach Muckenhirn Just desserts were on the Citi Field menu Wednesday night as the Mets earned their 6-5 victory over the Texas Rangers, and the Rangers just as surely earned their 6-5 defeat at the hands of the New York Mets. Had it gone the other way, all would have seemed more predestined. The Mets are the lousier […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Jeff Brigham, Joe Grahe, Jonathan Arauz, Lazy Nicknames, Losable Games Won, Rangers, Sean Reid-Foley, Travis Jankowski, Winnable Games Lost 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 The Mets won Sunday’s game by three if you’re counting high-leverage relievers rested. Brooks Raley? Rested. Yup, that’s three. Each pitcher pitched some on Saturday, and one of them (Raley) pitched on Friday, and you know what they say about relievers’ arms falling off should you try to use them a second or […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Adonis Medina, Arles Carrasco, Billy Eppler, Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Buck Showalter, David Robertson, Dominic Leone, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Josh Walker, Network, Options, Relief Pitching, Saturday Night Live, Vinny Nittoli Given a choice between a bedraggled, ill-mannered win and a jut-jawed, morally inviolate loss, you take the win every time. And the historical record will show that the Mets beat the Yankees Wednesday night, prevailing 4-3 in walkoff fashion in the 10th at Citi Field. But if you were watching, you know that “win” is stretching […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Baserunning, Billy McKinney, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Dumbass Wins, Eduardo Escobar, Gerrit Cole, Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Jeff Brigham, Justin Verlander, Mark Vientos, Nick Ramirez, Redemption, Steve Gelbs, Walkoffs, Yankees The starter can’t hold a four-run lead in the fourth inning. Two relievers can’t maintain a tie in the sixth inning, and a third reliever is barred from the mound because of sticky hands in the seventh inning. The center fielder can’t catch a ball lined essentially in front of his glove. The five-hole hitter strikes out with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Daniel Vogelbach, Dominic Leone, Drew Smith, Five-Tool Losing, Francisco Lindor, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Josh Walker, Luis Guillorme, Mark Vientos, Matt Franco, Max Scherzer, Raging Passion, Simmering Passion, Starling Marte, Sticky Hands, Subway Series, The Matt Franco Game Everything one needed to know about Mets-Braves games seemed to be on display in the bottom of the first inning of Monday afternoon’s doubleheader opener at Citi Field. We reached the part where the heartaches come pretty early. Atlanta was already ahead, 3-0, with the Braves’ additional top-flight catcher Sean Murphy — because harboring a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Charlie Morton, Collin McHugh, David Robertson, Denyi Reyes, Doubleheaders, Eddie Rosario, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Kevin Pillar, Moment of Silence, Promenade Box Blasts, Ronald Acuna Jr., Sean Murphy, Spencer Strider, Stephen Nogosek, Tommy Hunter, Tylor Megill, Yoenis Cespedes 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 The man used sweat and rosin, he said. He said it a lot. He repeated it enough so that I believed him, which doesn’t always work. The pitcher doth protest too much, methinks might be applicable here, except the pitcher pitches for the Mets and Met-think is how methinks. Besides, this is Max Scherzer in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Ejection, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, Max Scherzer, Noah Syndergaard, Rosin, Suspension, Sweat, The Manchurian Candidate, Umpiring When Pitchers & Catchers™ report to Port St. Lucie, the pitchers will outnumber the catchers, as the pitchers outnumber everybody in camp and all players by craft. Each game begins with one man at every position and each position tends to remain manned by that same fellow from the first inning to the last — […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Bill Almon, Bill Buckner, Bill Caudill, Brooks Raley, Bruce Sutter, Darren O'Day, David Robertson, Dick Tidrow, Ed Lynch, Elieser Hernandez, Extra Innings, Gaylord Perry, Jeff Brigham, Jeff Reardon, Jim Tracy, Joe Smith, John Curtiss, Justin Turner, Lee Smith, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Losing Streaks, Mario Ramirez, Mike O’Berry, Mike Scott, Neil Allen, Oliver Perez, Relief Pitching, Roy Lee Jackson, Sam Coonrod, Stephen Ridings, Team History, Tom Hausman, Willie Hernandez, Zach Greene, Zack Britton |
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