If you’re a dispassionate observer of New York Mets baseball, you’d take Francisco Lindor’s 4-for-4 day with a pair of homers and a quartet of RBIs on Wednesday and interpret that as a long overdue breakout that augurs well for an established star getting back to his career norm and likely having a characteristically terrific […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Leiter, Bill Pulsipher, Four Horsemen of the Metpocalypse, Francisco Lindor, Internal Affairs, Jack Leiter, Liam Pulsipher, Milestones, Pedro Martinez, Roberto Clemente Brandon Nimmo finally remembers how to steal bases and in activating his dormant skill aggravates a quad that merits exiting the game early, receiving imaging later and monitoring on a day-to-day basis. But I don’t want to talk about that. Jeff McNeil throws his body into every possible defensive play and has trouble getting up a couple […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 200 Wins, 2022 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Endurance, Francisco Lindor, Gratification, Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Tapani, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Taijuan Walker, Team History, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Edgardo Alfonzo, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Martinez, Steve Trachsel Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Come on along The first player this […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Beverages, Blogging, Most Valuable Met, Pedro A. Martinez, Pedro Martinez, The Simpsons The new Metropolitan standard of excellence by way of archaic statistics is Five Wins and Six Losses. That’s right, 5-6. Never mind the likes of 25-7, 19-10, 22-9, 24-4 or 20-6. Move over, Messrs. Seaver (those first three), Gooden and Dickey. You were Amazin’ in your respective […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 5-6 Pitchers, Carlos Torres, Charlie Williams, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Kobel, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tug McGraw On July 23, 2005, Jose Reyes busted out at Shea. The kid we’d been told was gonna do great things did the greatest things he’d done to date: 4-for-5, including a triple; two RBIs; two steals; three runs scored. The Mets beat the Dodgers, 7-5. Mets starting pitcher Pedro Martinez — almost exactly a decade […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Human Beings, Jose Reyes, Logan Verrett, Pedro Martinez The constantly vigilant, uncommonly retentive (not to mention preternaturally anxious) baseball fan’s mind comes fully equipped with hyperlinks. He sees something and it reminds him of something he’s seen before. It may or may not be worth the trouble of clicking on, but he know it’s there. For example, Wednesday night the Mets were ahead of […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Aaron Heilman, Braden Looper, Brian Schneider, Chris Woodward, Dae-Sung Koo, Danny Graves, Eric O'Flaherty, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Pedro Martinez, Preston Wilson, Ramon Castro, Roberto Hernandez, Ron Darling, Ryan Church, Superstition, Willie Randolph I had Pedro Martinez on my back Sunday as I visited the same summer place on Flushing Bay I’ve been frequenting since 2009. MARTINEZ 45 normally sits on my t-shirt retirement shelf, but it felt appropriate to unfold it and ceremonially reactivate it in honor of Pedro Martinez entering the Hall of Fame with a […] I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we scale Mount Acemore. Bigger than big Stephen Sondheim, in his A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aces, FAFIF Turns Ten, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Pedro Martinez, R.A. Dickey |
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