 
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. |
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 Finally! The Mets got the Justin Verlander they paid $43 million for — the fireballer who made opponents look silly as a Houston Astro, the no-doubt-about-it Hall of Famer, the top-of-the-rotation ace. And what a difference it made. I was there, in surprisingly good Excelsior seats behind home plate (a crummy year has some silver linings), close […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Customer Service, Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Pete Alonso, Piano Man, Touki Toussaint, White Sox When your opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway… When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century… When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, ABBA, Brett Baty, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Carrasco, DJ Stewart, Eddie Bressoud, Francisco Alvarez, Home Runs, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Polo Grounds, Robin Ventura, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, White Sox One of the greatest baseball anecdotes ever repeated flew off the bat of Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson, who was reported to have hit a ball out of Forbes Field “so high and so far that no one saw it come down,” leaving the umpire no choice but to call it a home run without […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Color Catchers, David Robertson, Dropped Popups, Hiro Fujiwara, Josh Gibson, Kodai Senga, Marv Albert, Max Carey, Max Muncy, Offensive Futility, Pete Alonso, Scoring Changes, Tin Cup, Unmade Double Plays Who are these guys and what have they done with the 2023 Mets? Actually, don’t answer that, because who cares? And don’t look for them, because this is fine. Unlike Wednesday’s heroic, up-off-the-mat victory, there wasn’t a lot of sweat expended Thursday in urging the Mets across the finish line. The game was essentially over in the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Todd Zeile With 25 home runs, Pete Alonso is an All-Star for the third time as a Met. Despite first-half performances suggesting they could have planned to join Pete on the flight from San Diego to Seattle this Sunday, Francisco Lindor and Brandon Nimmo remain players who’ve never been All-Stars as Mets. It is the latter cohort […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Brandon Nimmo, Correcting History, Francisco Lindor, National League Town, Pete Alonso A team played shoddy defense. A team saw its relievers struggle. A team hit balls right at defenders. A team rallied, sent a strong hitter up in a big spot … and got nothing out of it. That’s a familiar 2023 script, and it’s what we got on Sunday night, along with ESPN personalities we hadn’t asked for. (I […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Dominic Leone, Giants, J.D. Davis, Jeff Brigham, Jeremy Hefner, Pete Alonso, Winning Streaks Was it David Robertson‘s fault, or just his turn? The Mets normally reliable post-World Baseball Classic Plan B closer was called upon to protect a 4-2 lead in the eighth against the Giants and started by striking out old friend Wilmer Flores, who’d homered earlier. (With Wilmer, J.D. Davis and a hamstrung Michael Conforto on the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Robertson, Giants, Patrick Bailey, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Pham |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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