 
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. |
When your team’s bad you spend a lot of time fuming about how it should be made good. This guy who’s failed too often needs to lose his job to this guy who hasn’t failed yet, any fool can see the lineup should be revamped so it works like this, etc. I’m not generally one for […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Witt Jr., Brett Baty, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jeff McNeil, Luis Severino, Michael Wacha, Out, Pete Alonso, Royals, The Baseball Gods So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Injuries, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Michael Wacha, Robinson Cano, The Pinch-Running Files, Unlikely Events Re Tuesday’s game: Blah blah blah Michael Wacha blah blah blah Orioles blah blah Robert Gsellman blah blah blah blah blah blah five games under .500 blah blah blah blah blah sinking fast. I could have expanded that to 800 words, but why? Here’s the only analysis that matters: The Mets have 30 percent of a starting pitching staff. Jacob deGrom is […] This season, however it turns out, whether it turns out, will probably be remembered for other storylines, but churning beneath the surface of Mets Baseball 2020 is the churn itself. Have you noticed just how many players we’re going through a mere sixteen games in? When last season ended, the all-time Met count was up […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alternate Site, Andres Gimenez, Bill Sudakis, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Formal Introductions, Franklyn Kilome, Hunter Strickland, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Jimmie Schaffer, Lenny Harris, Met Debuts, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Milestone Mets, Moises Alou, Pete Smith, Phil Mankowski, Randy Milligan, Rey Sanchez, Rick Porcello, Ryan Cordell, Scott Hairston, Team History, The Twilight Zone, Tyler Bashlor For the past two nights, I haven’t had to think about what to watch on television. It was summer and the Mets were on. The viewing menu for any Mets fan in summer has been dependably predictable that way since 1962. Sub in radio for television if that’s how you roll. Score one for dependability, predictability […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Dom Smith, Fenway Park, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Michael Conforto, Michael Wacha, Pandemics, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Televised Content Somehow even people who aren’t baseball fans know that spring is about renewal. Bare tree branches begin sprouting tender green buds. Flowers and bright shoots of grass poke out of the earth. The sun’s around a little longer and starts to feel a little warmer. Everything feels fragile, but with the promise of heat and […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Dominic Smith, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Marcus Stroman, Michael Wacha, Mrs. Met, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Unforeseen Interruptions The following is a paid commercial advertisement for Marisnick, Wacha, Brach & Porcello. Hello. Are you facing the winter blahs? Do you need something to brighten your cold and gray outlook? Are you worried that everybody around you is getting great stuff while you’re sitting around with the same old same old? Then call us. We’re Marisnick, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Brad Brach, Incremental Improvements, Jake Marisnick, Michael Wacha, Rick Porcello And the summer went so quickly this year. Michael Wacha was on the verge of a complete game shutout, 24/27ths of the way there Tuesday night. Having observed him and his opposition in varying degrees of action and inaction for eight innings, I calculated as nil the chance the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, Complete Games, Giving In To The Inevitable, Joe Raposo, Lucas Duda, Matt Carpenter, Michael Wacha, Rafael Montero, Shutouts, The Raspberries It’s a big world with lots of people of it. Even our little part of it — in which people in the New York area cheer for a baseball team — is pretty big. No, I wasn’t specific about the baseball team. For one night, I’m going to expand our circle to include Yankees fans. Only […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Jonathon Niese, Kyle Farnsworth, Michael Pineda, Michael Wacha, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees |
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