 
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. |
On Thursday evening, the Mets saw fire, or at least the haze from the smoke that wafted down to Philadelphia from Canada, and responded well, all climate conditions considered. On Saturday afternoon, the Mets saw rain. A start time accelerated by an hour and an eventual 48-minute delay didn’t keep them from appearing all wet. The James […] When two .410-ish teams get together, one of them has to win, right? But why is that, exactly? Imagine if Rob Manfred had marched onto the field in the seventh inning with the score Mets 9, Royals 9, taken the umpires aside and then commandeered one of the mics they use to confirm that they’ve screwed up […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Ewing, A.J. Minter, Andy Green, Austin Warren, David Stearns, Debacles, Debuts, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Matt Seelinger, Rob Manfred, Royals, Tyler Tolbert A lot of signals emerge from a season that’s cratered, and as a veteran Mets fan, I have enough experience with craters to have grown familiar with them. Last night’s 2-1 loss to the Phillies, the maiden voyage of the SS Andy Green, brought another jolt of recognition: Ah yes, it’s the loss that somehow […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, David Stearns, Derek Hill, Devin Williams, Edwin Diaz, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Steve Cohen, Zach Thornton, Zack Wheeler The email came from a work colleague: We’re planning our annual Mets outing, please RSVP. My instinctive response: Oh God, do I have to? That’s where this death march of a season has brought us: A free ticket to a Mets game feels like a burden. The Mets have gone from confounding to infuriating and finally to the […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Counsell, Cubs, Embarrassment, Juan Soto, Kidcaster, Kodai Senga, Pete Crow-Armstrong, Replay Review, SNY Well, they didn’t lose 12-0. Nope, on Tuesday night the Mets fell behind 4-0 in the first, but then won the rest of the game 3-1, which is a roundabout way of saying they lost 5-3. Kodai Senga somehow only gave up two hits over four innings, but those two hits came in the form of […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Futility, Injuries, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Reds, Ron Darling, Sean Manaea “The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists though civilization’s sunset. We watch the catastrophe unfold, refusing to fully admit our doom…” Today I decided the Mets would win a ballgame. They were playing the Cubs on a Friday afternoon […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kodai Senga, Lineups, Losing Streaks, MJ Melendez, Positive Thinking, Sean Manaea, Summerlike Weather, The Wind Blowing Out, Wrigley Field A hazard of the recapping trade is you spend the game field-testing narratives in your head while the bedrock story is still unfolding, trying on summations variously grand, tragic or farcical. After Kodai Senga‘s disconsolate departure, this was my first draft for this entire recap, channeling Dean Wormer’s caustic advice to Flounder in Animal House: Bad at […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carlos Cortes, Carlos Mendoza, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Kodai Senga, Luke Weaver, Tyler Soderstrom “This is Ellis Island here, people. I don’t care who you are, where you’re from, whether your relatives came over on the fucking Mayflower or on an inner tube from Haiti. This right here is the land of opportunity.” Tom Seaver was from Fresno, California. Bud Harrelson and Tug McGraw […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Mendoza, Devin Williams, Global Game, Huascar Brazoban, International Flavor, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Luis Torrens, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Metropolitan-American, Soccer, The Wolf of Wall Street, World Baseball Classic It happens every spring: A Mets loss arrives and then departs eliciting no reaction beyond a vaguely affronted shrug. A loss — striking in a new season where you still remember every twist of every game, but soon to fade into anonymity, becoming part of the blur of series and road trips and homestands and […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Cardinals, Kodai Senga, Luis Robert Jr., Richard Lovelady The trumpeter who scores the postgame scurry to the 7 on Mets Plaza made an interesting musical choice in the minutes following the fresh 5-1 loss the Marlins had inflicted upon the Mets inside Citi Field. He played “Auld Lang Syne,” a number usually reserved for December 31 rather than August 31. I wondered if […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, 2025 Mets, August, Auld Lang Syne, Brandon Waddell, Kodai Senga, Mark Simon, Mets Trivia, Quizzing Satchels, Sandy Alcantara, September, Spunky Upstarts, Towed Juggernauts |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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