Emily and I watched the first couple of innings of Tuesday night’s Mets-Nats tilt somewhat distractedly. First we were down in Dumbo at L&B Spumoni Gardens, a satellite of the classic ur-Brooklyn Sicilian-pizza joint that’s finally open after a long permitting saga. Then we were walking up the hill for home. We’d peeked at SNY, […]
 
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. |
 6 comments | |  Print This Post |  CJ Abrams, Cole Henry, Confidence, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, Jeff McNeil, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Jose Ferrer, Juan Soto, Justin Garza, Kyle Finnegan, Luisangel Acuna, Mackenzie Gore, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Steve Gelbs We all love a dramatic game, but there’s nothing whatsoever wrong with winning 6-1 — particularly when that margin of victory comes the night after a gut-punch loss. Wednesday night’s game was the Griffin Canning and Pete Alonso show, what with Canning’s near-flawless pitching (six innings, three skinny singles allowed) and the Polar Bear homering twice […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dalton Rushing, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Griffin Canning, Jose Castillo, Kike Hernandez, Michael Conforto, Mookie Betts, Pete Alonso, Ryan Loutos, Shohei Ohtani, Tony Gonsolin It didn’t exactly strike me as the best idea for the Mets to play the Rockies at home, fly across the country and then go toe to toe with the Dodgers the next night, but MLB has an unbroken record of not asking me what I think. That’s what the Mets did, and at least for […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Pages, Brandon Nimmo, Dave Roberts, Dodger Stadium, Dodgers, Dustin May, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Max Kranick, Max Muncy, Michael Conforto, Paul Blackburn, Ryne Stanek, Shohei Ohtani, Tanner Scott, Teoscar Hernandez, Tommy Edman, Tyrone Taylor Scoring the two runs necessary to defeat the Chicago White Sox on Memorial Day was less a matter of pulling teeth than implanting them for the New York Mets. Virtually no baserunners for innings on end. Then baserunners. but none of them driven in. Ultimately, a sacrifice fly in the eighth and a sacrifice fly […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Bubble Gum, Clay Holmes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Butto, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Old Friends, One-Third of a Season, Pinch-Running, Sacrifice Flies, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs The Mets haven’t lost more than two consecutive games all year. But they sure do pack a lot of defeat into their brief losing streaks. Sunday…yeech. Monday… more of that. The back-to-back scores — 8-2 and 3-1 — were dissimilar, but the trajectory duplicated itself. Mets fall behind. Mets stay in it. Mets loiter in […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dangerous Assumptions, Fenway Park, Jose Castillo, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Pete Alonso, Two-Game Losing Streaks |
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