 
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. |
Honestly, even without considering the lateness of the hour, a big picture of Noah Syndergaard would be more eloquent than whatever I’ll be able to come up with. Because sometimes Syndergaard defies description. Wednesday night’s pitching line might not look like ace-level Syndergaard — the swing-and-a-miss stuff wasn’t quite there — but that’s deceptive. Syndergaard was hitting 100 […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dodgers, Kenta Maeda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting Moving in alongside the storm front that had just begun enshrouding the New York Metropolitan Area Friday night was much better breaking news: the Mets were opting in, all in, to the 2016 championship chase, re-signing Yoenis Cespedes to a three-year deal that may function as only a one-year deal but is clearly superior to […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2016 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Antonio Bastardo, Confidence, Daniel Murphy, Demi Lovato, Field Of Dreams, Free Agents, Nationals, Snow, Yoenis Cespedes Back in June, Emily and I decided that a lovely summer night would be made even better by our attending a ballgame. So we did … and watched the Mets get no-hit by Chris Heston and the San Francisco Giants. I grumbled and groaned for competitive and aesthetic reasons. The competitive reasons for not wanting my […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Billy Beane, Chris Heston, Dodgers, Max Scherzer, Nationals, No-Hitters, Panic City Noah Syndergaard had just finished retiring 19 of his last 20 batters faced and was sitting in the visiting dugout in Atlanta, perhaps thinking about his ninth win of the season. Tyler Clippard was on the mound, squinting in at Travis d’Arnaud with that little lip curl of his, trying to navigate through some wildness. […] 46 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Brooklyn Cyclones, Fans, Ghosts, Kelly Johnson, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tim Stauffer, Tyler Clippard For the second night in a row, the Mets lost a one-run game amid a relapse of Narcoleptic Offense Syndrome. On Saturday night the problem was compounded by Noah Syndergaard having an off-night; on Sunday Bartolo Colon was good enough to win, but the Mets’ attack against hyperactive Chris Archer (who must cover at least two […] I no longer remember the exact circumstances, but years ago there was a newspaper story featuring a Yankee fan who didn’t understand why any franchise would adopt “Ya Gotta Believe” (or one of its non-spontaneous, corporate-approved descendants) as a rallying cry. Terrible slogan, she snorted dismissively: “Believe? That’s lame. We know.” That always struck me as a perfect way to describe the two New York fanbases, because strip […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Fans, Hope, Lucas Duda, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Tug McGraw There have been more exhausting 48-hour stretches in the life of a Mets fan — the desperate scramble at the end of the ’99 season comes to mind — but not for a very long time. And perhaps there’s never been such an insane rollercoaster of emotions over so few hours, with euphoria, anger, confusion, despair, and […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Fans, Felipe Rivero, Hope, Jerry Meals, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Tyler Clippard, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes I wish the Mets weren’t already out of the pennant race. I wish the Mets weren’t always getting their brains beaten in by the Washington Nationals. I wish the Mets weren’t always falling apart after the All-Star break. 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Eric Campbell, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Nationals, Pennant Race, Perspective, Wish Fulfillment Marv Throneberry, legend has it, was once crestfallen to discover that his birthday cake had been devoured by his Mets teammates before he got a piece — to which Casey Stengel cracked that “we wuz gonna give you a piece, Marv, but we wuz afraid you would drop it.” I don’t know if the Mets got Jacob deGrom a cake for […] 45 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Jacob deGrom, Marv Throneberry, Nationals, Ruben Tejada, Sean Gilmartin, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores “Bobby Knight told me this, ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words, a good offense wins.” Pitching and defense are splendid, except when they’re deployed against you. Jordan Zimmermann and three National relievers outpitched Jacob deGrom and Rafael […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jordan Zimmermann, Lineups, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryan Zimmerman |
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