 
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. |
As it turned out, the Mets played one classic in the first leg of the 2025 Subway Series, sandwiched by a pair of duds. Sunday night’s finale, narrated by an irritating ESPN crew that licked every Yankee uniform until it was shiny and clean, looked like it was in the running to be a classic for […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Judge, Adam Hamari, Bad Fundies, Clay Bellinger, David Peterson, Genesis Cabrera, Huascar Brazoban, Jorbit Vivas, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Max Fried, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, Ryne Stanek, Subway Series, Yankees Tylor Megill looked Niesean Friday night against the Yankees. If you know me and/or are a long-time reader, you know that’s pretty close to a deadly insult. Megill suffered some bad luck along the way to giving up four earned runs in 2 2/3 laborious innings in the Bronx: In the fatal third inning (which took […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Boone, Clay Bellinger, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Juan Soto, Paul Goldschmidt, Subway Series, Tylor Megill, Yankees, Yerry De Los Santos Baseball makes no sense. Just ask the Mets, who went into the second inning at Busch Stadium Tuesday night down 3-0 to the Cardinals, as Jose Butto couldn’t command his fastball and St. Louis was whacking his pitches all over the ballpark. It sure looked like Monday night’s relatively streamlined, professional win was the exception to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Alec Burleson, Brandon Nimmo, Cardinals, Chris Roycroft, Jose Butto, Jose Lopez, Miles Mikolas, Nolan Arenado, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, Willson Contreras Ah well. A nightmarish inning of bullpenning, combined with Paul Goldschmidt realizing, “Hey I’m Paul Goldschmidt,” did away with the Mets’ modest winning streak and hopes of sweeping the Cardinals, and I was first surprised and then a little heartened to register that I was annoyed. I didn’t think I was still capable of that, not […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, DJ Stewart, Jonathan Arauz, Paul Goldschmidt, Rafael Ortega, Trevor Gott From the beginning, I’ve loved watching Jeff McNeil play baseball — somehow never more so than when things don’t go his way. McNeil responds to any misfortune in an AB — an umpire’s poor judgment, his own excessive haste, a perfectly executed enemy pitch, a great play by a defender, a quirk of fate — with […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Cardinals, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Lenny Dykstra, Masyn Winn, Miles Mikolas, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso A grab bag of Mets drawing Adam Wainwright during his farewell tour, with John Smoltz and Fox painting the word picture? Hasn’t 2023 been mean enough already? That’s what we got Thursday night, with the only reasonable source of hope that baseball’s innate cussedness and delight in confounding storylines would come to the fore. Which, in fact, […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, Drew Smith, Fox, Francisco Alvarez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff McNeil, John Smoltz, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, Tim Locastro, Trevor Gott I don’t like being mad at the Mets. They’re an important part of my life — while I’m not as doctrinaire about it as I was in the not so distant past, it’s odd for me not to see or hear every pitch, and decidedly rare for a game to go in the books wholly unglimpsed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Paul Goldschmidt Earl Weaver, a wise man, once cracked that momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher. Games take the form of stories as they unfold, but all those stories start with the guy on the mound. If he’s got his full arsenal, recent frustrations and failures are likely to dissipate. If he’s got nothing, a run […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Ezequiel Carrera, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Paul Goldschmidt In the aftermath of the Mets’ sixth consecutive loss, dropped at Arizona Tuesday night by a final of 5-4, I heard Terry Collins reason away something that went wrong by saying, “That’s just part of the game.” I forget what the question was, but I recognized the response. “That’s just part of the game” is […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Fatalism, Fernando Rodney, Lucas Duda, Neil Ramirez, Paul Goldschmidt, Terry Collins, Tommy Milone, Yasmany Tomas As chroniclers of the Great Mets Fiasco of 2017, we’d be derelict in our duty if we failed to record this sequence for posterity: Hansel Robles, a reliever whose photo may actually appear next to the word “streaky” in baseball-centric dictionaries, faces Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt leading off the bottom of the eighth in a 1-1 game. […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Daniel Descalso, Hansel Robles, Jeff Mathis, Josh Edgin, Paul Goldschmidt, Yasmany Tomas |
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