Monday was Jesse Orosco’s birthday, so for a moment I thought the Mets were honoring him by nearly but not quite blowing a formidable ninth-inning lead. In the mind’s eye, Jesse flirted with disaster a lot in his not quite best years. In his best years, he was infallible in the mind’s eye. The mind’s […]
 
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. |
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 […] “FUCK!” I screeched when Francisco Lindor rolled over one to second in the seventh inning, and if I do say so myself, I was in midseason form. Dismay, frustration, pique — they were all audible and apparent. Then I whacked the couch just to underscore the point. It was a night in which I had plenty […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bailey Ober, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jesse Winker, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Twins, Tylor Megill 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 Many Americans have pretended to have medical knowledge these past five years, so why shouldn’t a fan watching a baseball game on TV try to discern what’s wrong with a pitcher who doesn’t look physically right? My telehealth patient was David Peterson, who’d been rolling along through four-plus innings of grounding the Blue Jays Sunday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Expectations, Gin Blossoms, Hayden Senger, Max Kranick, Satchel Paige, Telehealth Diagnoses, The McCoys The fans who wait for their team to come off the road while the year is still young are rewarded for their patience with two Openers. There’s Opening Day, which is festive no matter that it’s taking place in another ballpark, and there’s a discrete Home Opener, which grants us a second helping of holiday […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Blue Jays, Bobby Jones, Buffets, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Francisco Lindor, Home Opener, Interleague Play, Juan Soto, Max Kranick, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Replay Review, Team History, Tylor Megill Another sign the new season isn’t quite so new? You find yourself struggling to accentuate the positive when things don’t go well. Things didn’t go well Tuesday night in Miami: Kodai Senga was shaky early, the Mets’ hitting resurgence turned out to be a one-day affair, and Francisco Lindor made not one but two errors at […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Graham Pauley, Kodai Senga, Marlins, Max Kranick 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 It was 34 degrees this morning in New York because it’s March 27, and on March 27, about a week beyond winter, you’re as likely as not to get a very chilly morning. Days with mornings with that low a temperature don’t exactly scream baseball weather. But the Mets were in Florida for a month-and-a-half (where […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Astros, Billy Murphy, Bob Gallagher, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Ed Kranepool, Felix Mantilla, Field Of Dreams, Griffin Canning, Hayden Senger, Jack DiLauro, Jeff Torborg, Jose Siri, Juan Soto, Lenny Randle, March, Mark Bradley, Max Kranick, Mike Cubbage, Moment of Silence, Opening Day, Patches, Rickey Henderson, Ron Locke, Team History, Tommie Reynolds, Wayne Graham |
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