The Unicorn Score Monitor went on high alert in the middle of the eighth inning Monday afternoon after the Mets increased their lead over the Nationals to 15-0. That score rang a bell for not having rung a bell in my head, a repository that also serves as the unofficial institutional memory of New York […]
 
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 nights I’m recapping, I put a little warning for myself on repeat in my brain: It’s not all about the narrative. We see patterns while watching baseball (or while doing anything else, storytelling monkeys that we are) and we find them irresistible — pattern detection is a tool we use to make sense of […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  A.J. Minter, Alfonzo Marquez, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Mendoza, City Connects, Daniel Murphy, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Jake Irvin, James Wood, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Jose Ferrer, Kodai Senga, Kyle Finnegan, Luis Garcia, Mark Vientos, Nathaniel Lowe, Nationals, Replay Review, Ryne Stanek, Triple Plays, Tyrone Taylor, Umpiring, Uniforms Yeah! Luis Torrens! The backup catcher thrust into near-everyday action is the hero in the bottom of the eighth, rescuing the Mets with a double all the way down the left field line, scoring Brandon Nimmo from second, salvaging an inning that nearly went by the wayside on the basepaths, breaking a tie, and positioning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Cardinals, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Old Friends, Phil Maton, Ryne Stanek, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs, Wishes, Wonders The Mets’ current formula for being 12-7 … well, it’s working while not seeming like a particularly good idea. They pitch impeccably, which you don’t need to be a lifetime baseball fan to know isn’t sustainable, and they hit … hmm, how to describe this part? Minimally? Sporadically? Just enoughally? Thursday night’s game followed this odd, not particularly […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Pallante, Brett Baty, Cardinals, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Griffin Canning, Mark Vientos, Tyrone Taylor If 11 o’clock newscasts were what they used to be, the Minnesota Twins could have filled half of Warner Wolf’s Plays of the Month via their unintentional antics at frigid Target Field on Monday night. They don’t go the videotape like they used to. • Matt Walner lashed a ball that took one bounce the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bloopers, Carmine Cincotta, Clay Holmes, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Steve Gelbs, Twins, Warner Wolf I turned on the Mets game a couple of minutes after my Metro-North train starting trundling south out of Waterbury, Conn., picking up the voices of Keith Raad and Pat McCarthy from distant West Sacramento. I switched trains in Bridgeport as old friend Luis Severino won an extended battle with Brett Baty even as he […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Brett Baty, Howie Rose, Journeys, Keith Raad, Kodai Senga, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Pat McCarthy, Pete Alonso, Radio No doubt as the Mets’ traveling party gathered for its team Seder on Saturday evening in Sacramento, one of the elder statesmen at the table — my guess is bench coach John Gibbons — noted that the 3-1 score by which the club lost in the afternoon was the first 3-1 loss the Mets had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, A's, Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Catfish Hunter, David Peterson, Faith, George Stone, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Siri, Mark Vientos, Passover, Sacramento, Starling Marte, Team History, Team Seders, Tom Seaver, Unleavened Offense, West Sacramento, Yogi Berra Mets 3, A’s 1, game called after four and a half innings because your recapper was weary and collapsed into his bed. Wait, they don’t do things that way? Apologies — I figured maybe they did, what with everything else that was strange about watching the Mets and the A’s play in a ballpark that looks […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A's, Billionaires We Don't Like, Dallas Braden, Edwin Diaz, Griffin Canning, John Fisher, Las Vegas, Lawrence Butler, Mark Vientos, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Ron Darling, Sacramento, Sleep, SNY, Sutter Health Park If Monday night’s game had happened in late May or June, I think I would have fallen all over myself calling it taut and crisp, maybe with a side of hard-fought and close-run. And I don’t know, maybe you called it those things while on your couch. Or, God forbid, while peering around you at a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cold, Danny Young, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Jose Siri, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Ryne Stanek, Schedules, Tyrone Taylor The first week of baseball is seductive and also a little dangerous: You’re so glad to have baseball back and to resume the rhythms of fandom that you can shrug off the disappointment that comes with every game having a winner and a loser. The first week really does offer participant trophies, and each season […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Ghosts, Griffin Canning, Howie Rose, Jeremy Pena, Jose Siri, Josh Hader, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Max Kranick, Spencer Arrighetti, Yordan Alvarez |
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