Freddie Freeman having doubled 55 times in 2023 without networks breaking into prime time programming even once to issue bulletins on his chase of 60 — a two-base hit total not reached since the 1930s — has got me thinking doubles are baseball’s most underappreciated hit. Ralph Kiner said home run hitters drive Cadillacs. Tim […]
 
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. |
A habit I’m trying to break as a baseball fan is the assigning of blame. If the Mets don’t win – even a stripped-down, playing-out-the-string version of the Mets – it can’t be that the other team won or something went wrong or an unlucky event occurred. No, it has to be someone’s fault. For instance: […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alexis Diaz, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Grant Hartwig, Hunter Greene, Jonathan India, Pete Alonso, Reds, Relief Pitching Who are these Mets, anyway? Joey Lucchesi was terrific, Mark Vientos homered, Pete Alonso drove in three on a homerless night and — in the most astonishing development of all — Trevor Gott and Drew Smith were allowed to pitch and didn’t fall apart like cheap watches. There was a nifty flying slide home by Jeff […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Diamondbacks, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marty Noble, Pete Alonso, Trevor Gott All games have their highlights, even the Mets’ Saturday afternoon 8-4 loss to the Twins in Minneapolis — if you watched or listened to it, choose YOUR favorite highlight! • David Peterson delivered the very definition of a quality start! 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Excessive Use of Exclamation Points, Highlights, Not Drew Smith, Pete Alonso What distinguishes every Mets “game go” that involves me and my friend Mark Simon? As was the case on Sunday afternoon, when Mark and I went to Citi Field to ostensibly watch the Mets play the Mariners, each of us brings several, perhaps many Mets-based trivia questions to ask one another. What’s the purpose of these trivia […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Dietary Restrictions, Doc Gooden, Doc Medich, Dominic Leone, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Mariners, Milestones, Pepe Mangual, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, The Log, Trivia, US Open As one who doesn’t subscribe to Peacock, I couldn’t tell you what Sunday’s Mets-Angels game looked like, but from the sound of it over WCBS-AM, it was quite the staring contest. The Mets stared at the Angels. The Angels stared at the Mets. It was 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. Two teams used to staring into […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Angels, Austin Jackson, Casey Kasem, Cory Sullivan, David Peterson, Dead End Achievers, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Interlopers Among Us, Kevin Bass, Nori Aoki, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Radio, Rafael Ortega, Ron Swoboda, Semi-Pro, Shohei Ohtani, Team History, Walkoffs, Wilson Delgado 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 |
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