Friday’s late-afternoon sun bathed Jeff McNeil’s chin in enough of a glow to make the touch of gray in his beard quite noticeable to me. Live long enough, and that kid who had torn up Binghamton and Las Vegas so much that he forced a callup and a trade of the veteran in front of […]
 
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 - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Warren, Brett Baty, Graybeards, Huascar Brazoban, Jeff McNeil, Juan Soto, Justin Hagenman, Longevity, Marcus Stroman, Reed Garrett, Subway Series, Versatility “Does anyone still wear a hat?” Elaine Stritch was known to ask. If anyone does — and I know it’s done at Citi Field — I hope hats have been held onto tightly, for the Mets won a ballgame in their ballpark Wednesday night. Surprising, I know. The Mets, losers of 10 of their previous 11, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Bench Mob, Bill Pulsipher, Clay Holmes, Didier Fuentes, Elaine Stritch, Halfway Point, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Ronny Mauricio, Stephen Sondheim, Time’s Flight, Youthful Exploits Does it count as progress if the Mets lose but it’s merely discouraging and not actively humiliating? Monday night’s game was more drab and disheartening baseball. Paul Blackburn was lucky not to get driven from the game down six or seven, as he got help from Braves baserunning mistakes and atom balls that found Met gloves. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Dylan Lee, Juan Soto, Paul Blackburn, Raisel Iglesias, Spencer Schwellenbach The Mets went only 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position Saturday night in Philadelphia, and their starting pitcher had to be pulled with one on and nobody out in the sixth, suggesting two overly familiar ingredients had been stirred into the pot for an eighth consecutive serving of futility stew. Fortunately, the Mets were experimenting […] In the early days of Citi Field, there was an attempt to start a first-inning Yankee Stadium-style roll call. Thankfully wisdom prevailed and the attempt got shelved — that tradition belongs in the Bronx, just like “Sweet Caroline” belongs in Fenway. But there’s no rule that we can’t do it here. Juan Soto: I heard Soto’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, Complete Games, David Peterson, Defense, John DeMarsico, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Mets Fans, Nationals, Replay Review, Ron Darling, Shutouts, Tom Seaver, Tyrone Taylor 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, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | 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 Be glad that the first-place Mets compete on the same elite level as the first-place Dodgers. Be glad that the Mets play close, compelling games versus the defending world champions. Be glad the Mets can show up at Dodger Stadium and grab a quick 1-0 lead off future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. Be glad Tylor Megill can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Waddell, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Horrible, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Max Muncy, Painful, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Tylor Megill Some ballgames elude complexity. Sunday’s had on one side of Citi Field the team that was tied for best record in its league, and on the other side of the divide the team with the worst record in all of baseball. The team with a best-record claim had three world-class sluggers. The team with the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Johnny Mathis, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Simplicity Saturday’s game against the Rockies, the last tilt of May, was observed by your chronicler via a kaleidoscope of information sources from way out here in Tacoma, Wash.: looking down at MLB.tv on my phone during one of the Pacific Northwest’s never-quite-remitting rainstorms, via MLB Audio when the bandwidth pipe was a little too narrow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, City Connects, Dick Monfort, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Jesus Alou, Jonahs, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Minor Leagues, Ownership, Rhylan Thomas, Rockies, Ron Herbel, Salt Lake City Bees, Shintaro Fujinami, Tacoma Rainiers, Trevor Gott, Tyrone Taylor, Yolmer Sanchez A staple of postgame postmortems, specifically in the games where leads got away within sports whose rigidly timed action flows back and forth, is that the team that lost played not to lose rather than to win. Their defense wasn’t aggressive enough. Their offense wasn’t opportunistic enough. Winning wasn’t the priority. Not losing was, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliches, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Not Losing, Reed Garrett, Rockies, Starling Marte |
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