There’s honestly not a lot of insight to be had comparing a mediocre baseball team with a very good one. Very good teams make plays and get hits when it matters; mediocre ones sometimes do and sometimes don’t. Christian Scott, forced to cosplay as a chimney sweep for his first-ever Citi Field start, was pretty […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Brett Baty, Christian Scott, Futility, Humiliation, J.D. Martinez, Joe Jimenez, Max Fried, No-Hit Bids, Raisel Iglesias It’s not every day your favorite Major League Baseball franchise registers its 5,000th regular-season loss. The day our favorite Major League Baseball franchise registered its 5,000th regular-season loss, the skies clouded up all morning and afternoon; began to mist and drizzle as evening set in; and then began to pour down through the night. Somewhere […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1966 Mets, Braves, Carl Willey, David Peterson, Dennis Ribant, Don Bosch, Don Cardwell, Frank Lary, Kevin Pillar, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Promise, Rain, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn It’s a measure of how spoiled we’ve been: Jacob deGrom looks mortal (and for a second start in a row, no less) and we’re all scratching our heads as if God has repealed physics and things are falling up and sticking to ceilings. DeGrom was better than he was in his confoundingly disastrous Oakland start, and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Brooklyn Cyclones, Dansby Swanson, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jacob deGrom, Kenley Jansen, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Max Scherzer, Pennant Race, Starling Marte OK, look: That was a pretty great ballgame. Two aces squared off — Max Fried and Jacob deGrom — and they were both pretty damn good. But the enemy offenses found the smallest of holes in their defenses. For deGrom, it was a lone inning where his slider was disobedient, refusing to be as sharp as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Francisco Lindor, Kenley Jansen, Mark Canha, Max Fried, Michael Harris II, Pete Alonso, Vaughn Grissom |
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