 
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. |
From innings one through five on Tuesday night, a perfect game took hold at Citi Field. From the sixth through ninth, four more perfect innings were thrown. Selective arithmetic indicates twenty-seven batters came up, twenty-seven batters went down in something approximating succession. More down than up, per usual, for the New York Mets, noted perfectionists when […] Nolan McLean keeps getting better and better — but not even he can escape the Mets. In just his 12th start as a big leaguer (!!!), McLean was nicked for a first-inning run but looked sparkling after that, making the best team in baseball look downright silly for the rest of a long night at Dodger […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Vesia, Brooks Raley, Dodgers, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Jacob deGrom, Kyle Tucker, Noah Syndergaard, Nolan McLean, Pitchers Hitting, Yoshinobu Yamamoto April! Baseball’s back! Hope is dewy and seemingly inexhaustible! The calendar makes sense again! All true, and thank goodness for that. But April isn’t just opportunity — it’s also necessity. Including relearning some hard baseball lessons. On Thursday night the Mets took a 1-0 lead to the seventh behind Nolan McLean. That lone skinny run came courtesy […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Bad Relief Pitching, Brett Baty, Diamondbacks, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gabriel Moreno, Ildemaro Vargas, James McCann, Luis Garcia, Luis Robert Jr., Luke Weaver, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean Met victories were so plentiful Friday night in San Francisco — for the club as a whole, for Nolan McLean, for power hitting, for clutch hitting, for remaining awake — that one is tempted to relegate to footnote status the little matter of Juan Soto exiting the game early with tightness in his right calf […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Calf Injuries, Francisco Alvarez, Juan Soto, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Perfect Game Bids, Superstition It was a confounding, frustrating season even before we learned it would be a fracture in the Mets’ timeline, with stalwarts we’d grown used to shipped off or allowed to depart and their replacements still yet to take shape. One day it will all seem like a logical story; for now it’s just baffling. But […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2025 Mets, A.J. Minter, Alex Carrillo, Baseball Cards, Brandon Sproat, Brandon Waddell, Cedric Mullins, Chris Devenski, Clay Holmes, Colin Poche, Dom Hamel, Dylan Ross, Frankie Montas, Ghosts, Gregory Soto, Griffin Canning, Hayden Senger, Jared Young, Jonah Tong, Jonathan Pintaro, Jose Azocar, Jose Castillo, Jose Siri, Jose Urena, Juan Soto, Justin Garza, Justin Hagenman, Kevin Herget, Max Kranick, Nolan McLean, Richard Lovelady, Rico Garcia, Ryan Helsley, The Holy Books, Tyler Rogers, Tyler Zuber, Wander Suero, Zach Pop “It’s great to be young and a New York Giant,” second baseman Larry Doyle declared to Damon Runyon in 1911, the year Doyle turned 25, the season the Giants won the first of three consecutive National League pennants. More than a century later, you could hear an echo of Laughing Larry in the earnest sentiments […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Birthdays, Brandon Sproat, Clay Holmes, Football, Generation MST3K, Jerry Maguire, Jonah Tong, Larry Doyle, Mike Torrez, New York Giants, Nolan McLean, Youth of America Here’s an interesting exercise: consider how we would have assessed Thursday’s Mets-Cubs finale if it had come in June, or even mid-August. I probably would have led with an acknowledgment of how much Brett Baty has grown as a player, on both sides of the ball. Baty’s three-run homer off Shota Imanaga in the third made […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cubs, Dansby Swanson, Defense, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Mark Vientos, Nolan McLean, Rules, Ryne Stanek, Seiya Suzuki, Shota Imanaga, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor We’re all exhausted, so let’s hurry through the first seven or so innings of Sunday’s desperate affair against the Rangers: A young pitcher was great, the Mets hit a little though not a lot, Carlos Mendoza made an understandable though anxiety-provoking move to get aforementioned young pitcher out amid early signs that the roof might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adolis Garcia, Brooks Raley, Cedric Mullins, Cody Freeman, Edwin Diaz, Extra Innings, Ezequiel Duran, Josh Smith, Juan Soto, Kyle Higashioka, Losing Streaks Snapped, Luis Curvelo, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Rangers, Reed Garrett, Rowdy Tellez, Ryne Stanek, Walk-Off Wins One recipe for a good baseball game? A sequence of unlikely events. No-hitters flipped into walkoffs, storming back to a ninth-inning win, Houdini-ing your way out of what looks like statistical doom, that kind of thing. Monday night’s game in Philadelphia was a good game, much as we would have preferred a duller one with a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, Aaron Nola, Aborted Comebacks, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jhoan Duran, Nick Castellanos, Nolan McLean, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley Hey, why don’t they make the whole pitching staff out of Nolan McLean? Statistically, McLean’s start Tuesday night against the Tigers was the least of the four he’s made so far in his very young career. But it might have been the most impressive for all that. McLean reported for duty having trouble landing his curveball […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Higginson, Chris Paddack, Juan Soto, Justin Verlander, Kevin Herget, Luis Torrens, Max Scherzer, Nolan McLean, Pete Alonso, Ryne Stanek, Sawyer Gipson-Long, Tigers |
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