 
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. |
The Mets lost, which is once again what they do: Carlos Carrasco was awful again and at this point one has to conclude he’s hurt, done or both; the bullpen was superb but it didn’t matter, as the offense didn’t hit enough or hit when it would have been useful. The dregs of the game brought […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angels, Buck Showalter, Carlos Carrasco, Jose Soriano, Pete Alonso, Shohei Ohtani, What Ifs Pete Alonso homered Saturday night in St. Louis. We know that’s not a first. DJ Stewart homered Saturday night in St. Louis. We know from his no longer wholly unexpected production that that wasn’t a first. Daniel Vogelbach launched a grand slam to pretty much bury St. Louis on Saturday night. We can pretend Daniel […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Baseball Research, Chuck Estrada, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, DJ Stewart, Don Shaw, Jack Hamilton, Jerry Buchek, Jose Quintana, Kodai Senga, Mets Firsts Trifecta, Pete Alonso, Ron Taylor, Saves, Team History, Tim Locastro, Tom Seaver, Tommy Davis, Trevor Gott, Wes Westrum 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 “David Peterson.” “It’s simple, I mention a name or something else, and you tell me the first thing you think of.” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Colin Holderman, Consecutive Games Played, Daniel Murphy, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, David Thompson, DJ Stewart, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grant Hartwig, Gus Bell, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Butto, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, One Met Homer Only, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Team History, Winning Time Some are like summer The 2023 Mets have assured themselves they will not be the statistical equal of the 2022 Mets, having notched their 62nd loss Tuesday night the season after […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, Abraham Almonte, Carlos Carrasco, Daniel Vogelbach, Hardy Perennials, Historic Dropoffs, Historical Plunges, James Taylor, Jameson Taillon, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Team History, Throwing Things Baseball is a sport of long-term truths that fight their way out of short-term noise, so the Mets winning a rain-interrupted laugher over the Cubs was only a surprise from an emotional standpoint: It had been pretty obvious to us loyal diehards doughty faithful pathetic masochists that they would never win another game in 2023, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Cubs, Danny Mendick, Ian Happ, Kodai Senga, Laughers, Pete Alonso It’s not quite Max Flack and Cliff Heathcote switching teams between games of a doubleheader, but spare a moment of consideration for David Robertson, who was a Met when it started raining and a Marlin when it stopped. That’s a strange one. A strange one, but probably not the only oddity heading our way: There was a […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Bromstad, David Robertson, Mackenzie Gore, Max Scherzer, MLB At Bat, Nationals, Pete Alonso, Radio, Reed Garrett, Trade Deadline What are the stakes in a Subway Series where both sets of partisans would just as soon not? The Mets and Yankees have not too dissimilar records (the Mets are bad in a meh way, the Yankees are just meh), are both mired near the bottom of their divisions, and have both stumbled through the summer […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Daniel Vogelbach, Disappointment, Dominic Leone, Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Yankees The Earth keeps going around the sun; the Mets keep going in circles. On Sunday night they dropped the rubber game of their series with the Red Sox in numbingly familiar fashion: no hitting, bad pitching, bad defense. To which we might add that they looked torpid and useless, trudging around morosely while being dismantled by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Joely Rodriguez, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Red Sox, Tommy Pham |
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