FLUSHING (FAF) — Scientists anxiously monitoring activities at the Flushing Meadows National Laboratory expressed amazement Friday night at the discovery of yet another way for the New York Mets to lose a baseball game, this time by blowing a sizable eighth-inning lead to the San Francisco Giants and then loading the bases in the bottom […]
 
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. |
The Mets have been both bad and unwatchable for the better part of two weeks, so Tuesday night counted as progress: They were watchable. Watchable, as they fought back after being put in a deep hole by David Peterson, Stephen Nogosek, and (one could argue) the umpiring crew, which missed a ball headed for Francisco Lindor‘s […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Buck Showalter, David Peterson, Ejections, Francisco Alvarez, Frustration, Losing, Mark Canha, Reds, Stephen Nogosek, Wil Myers Hello, sir or madam, I am calling today from Metropolitan Research Inquiries, or MRI. Your name has been chosen at random from a database of fans of your baseball team to determine which ways you’d prefer your team to lose. Results will go into helping create potential […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Frustration, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Losing, Market Research, Michael Conforto, Zack Wheeler Following my attendance for his 22nd start of the season Friday night, Jacob deGrom and I can each count 12 decisions on our 2018 ledger. Twelve times this year I’ve decided to be at Citi Field for a Mets game. Some would question the judgment of anybody who chooses […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Friday Nights, Jacob deGrom, Locked Citi Field Men's Rooms, Losing, Moneyball His name was Dr. Lago. He left Cuba years before and wound up teaching Spanish in my junior high. He was what you’d kindly call irascible. The translation of irascible en Español is also irascible, which is good information to retain in case he calls on me. Not much […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, Irascible Junior High Spanish Teachers, Jack Reinheimer, Jose Reyes, Losing, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, The 25-4 Game, The 26-7 Game, Tommy Milone, Von Hayes The Mets lost on Saturday afternoon. The Mets will lose any afternoon, any evening, any day of the week. It’s what they do more often than not. Very recently it was only what they did as often as not. In their previous four games, the Mets had […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Bobbleheads, Kevin Plawecki, Losing, Rays, Steven Matz Seriously. It’s not your health, your kids, your marriage, your job. It’s something you use to entertain yourself for three hours a night, and maybe think about for a couple more hours for further entertainment. Part of the fun of baseball is agonizing over it, of course, but that agony’s supposed to be a temporary condition […] The phone rang while I was catching up on my Nashville — Juliette Barnes is quite the handful — after I finished watching whatever it was I watched the bulk of Wednesday evening. It was the copy desk calling. Apparently I was keeping them waiting. “Yeah?” 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ichiro Suzuki, Jack Leathersich, Losing, Michael Cuddyer, Nashville Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we delineate our two primary states of being. The Monday before the Mets opened their 2015 season would have to go down in pencil as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Alex Torres, Blogging, Cory Mazzoni, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jerry Blevins, Losing, Matt den Dekker, Winning Did I hear the manager of the Mets say he expects his team to lose more often than it wins? I did. I watched the postgame show on SNY Sunday after a rousing 11-3 win. I stayed tuned for the media scrum with Terry Collins, which, by dint of logistics, appears less stage-managed on the road […] |
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