When the Mets finish up with the Cardinals they will play their next 19 games against the Braves, Cubs, Phillies and Yankees, bringing them to the All-Star break. Those four clubs have a collective winning percentage of .572. You never know in baseball, but those 19 games may provide a decisive verdict about who, exactly, […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Nola, Dave Kingman, Home Runs, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Predictions, Rhys Hoskins, Wilmer Font Hey Brodie, whatcha doin’? Awesome! Hey Brodie, why ya throwin’ a chair? Cool! Hey Mickey, whatcha doin’? Outta sight! Hey Todd, whatcha doin’? 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Brodie Van Wagenen, Chairs, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Ejections, Jake Arrieta, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Mysterious Ways, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido It’s bad enough that Major League Baseball’s schedulemakers have left the Mets idle on this most iconic of summertime dates, but you’d figure they could have at least let them play on the eve of our nation’s 243rd birthday. What’s that? The Mets did play on July 3? Yesterday? Wednesday? Funny, I have no recollection of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Subway Series, Un-American Activities The lazy interpretation of a Mets win over the Yankees is that the Mets looked like the Yankees and vice-versa, ha-ha; you can almost hear it coming out of the generic local anchor throwing it to sports. Excuse me while I step outside and punch that narrative in the face. Yet now that I’ve gone there, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Opposite, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler Newsradio 88, flagship station for New York Mets baseball, must be pleased the New York Mets decided to make the 8th inning their flagship inning Sunday night. “Hits and runs on the eighth.” “You give us the eighth inning, we won’t give up a lead.” The latter evokes the other news station in New York, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Basketball, Edwin Diaz, Game Shows, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Laura Branigan, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Sunday Night Baseball, The Sopranos, WCBS, Wilmer Font Before the Internet, original thoughts were easier to enjoy. Nowadays, thanks to all manner of instantaneous communication, you realize that clever thing that just occurred to you organically occurred simultaneously to others, perhaps many thousands of others. Gosh, you tell yourself, maybe I’m not so clever or original. But it doesn’t mean your thought wasn’t right, […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bad Relief Pitching, Dominic Smith, First Half, Jason Vargas, Jay Bruce, Jeff McNeil, Predictability, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Stephen Nogosek It is one of baseball’s great curiosities that your sub-.500 team can leave its home park, whip a first-place opponent in its home park by a fairly uncommon score on a Tuesday and do the exact same thing four days later to another first-place opponent in its home park. This particular phenomenon may not quite […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Porn, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Picket Fence, Replay Review, Team History, Uncommon Scores Occurring in Proximity, Zack Wheeler Jeff McNeil went 8-for-8 on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field with two cycles and a sacrifice fly. In the field, he had six assists apiece from left, right, third and second, and recorded the final out of the game by bursting through the protective netting in front of the seats near first base to make […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breakout Season, Jeff McNeil, Risky Business, Versatility, Wrigley Field “All right, now we move on to the entries from Mr. Callaway’s class. Mr. Callaway’s class always has such interesting ideas and unorthodox ways of displaying them. Our first student is Peter Alonso. Peter, tell us about your project.” 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Pounders, Drama, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Science My Met fandom is not an unbroken line from seeing my mom jumping up and down and cheering for Rusty Staub to now. Yes, my mom’s joy is my first Mets memory — and one of my earliest memories of anything — but in 1981 I lost the thread. That year my Topps cards are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fathers and Sons, Jeff McNeil, Mickey Callaway, Pablo Sandoval, Shaun Anderson, Todd Frazier |
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