Seeing baseball in person always reminds me that the game is really two different experiences. The view from your couch lets you play HD voyeur, seeing everything from the pitcher’s grip to how the catcher frames each pitch — and with stats and expert analysis handed to you, like a surgeon taking tools from an […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Riley, Braves, Dansby Swanson, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Freddie Freeman, James McCann, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo First off, it didn’t rain. Anybody ready to take that for granted in the middle of a season when it anecdotally “always” rains? Chance of scattered thunderstorms, the forecast warned. I stuffed my disposable poncho I never dispose of and my portable Mets umbrella that I try not to use because then it would get […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Aaron Loup, Citi Field, Edwin Diaz, Jeff Keppinger, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Promenade, Rich Hill, Trivia Steven Matz made his debut for the Mets in June 2015, pitching against the Reds. It didn’t start out ideally — the young lefty from Long Island surrendered a home run to the first batter he faced in the big leagues, Brandon Phillips — but it soon got better. A lot better: Matz doubled in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Homecomings, Pete Alonso, Steven Matz, Tylor Megill There are games you’re clearly fated to win, ones you’re pretty much guaranteed to lose, and ones where the outcome teeters and totters between joy and horror while your heart tries to keep pace. And then there are games like Monday night’s in Cincinnati — ones where the sheer insanity of everything gobbles up logic […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Banda, Dave Jauss, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, Errors, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jerad Eickhoff, Jesse Winker, Joey Votto, Kevin Pillar, Luis Guillorme, Mac Scarce, Pete Alonso, Reds, Seth Lugo, Trevor May, Unlikely Events Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo You know what? I’ve come around on the idea of the Mets playing the Pirates again right after the All-Star Break. Not because I think the Pirates are a bunch of tomato cans — that’s a dangerous thing to think about any opponent, and if the Bucs win Sunday they’ll have split the series — but […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Bryan Reynolds, Edwin Diaz, John Nogowski, Jonathan Villar, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Records, The Holy Books, Trevor May, Tyler Anderson, Tylor Megill “Hello, may I speak to Luis Rojas please?” 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Dave Roberts, Francisco Lindor, Jonathan Villar, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Rain Delays, Taijuan Walker, Ten-Run Innings One half of a season is behind the New York Mets and so is the rest of the National League East. You can’t ask for a much better situation following 81 games. The chips don’t settle that way very often. The Mets have finished the statistical first half in first place six times previously. They’ve won […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Bette Midler, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Woodruff, Brewers, Bunting, Depth, Dom Smith, Edwin Diaz, First Half, First Place, Francisco Lindor, Michael Conforto, Neckerchiefs, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Team History, Trevor May, Tylor Megill By definition, a Sunday afternoon spent beating a pair of American League All-Stars en route to winning by five is time well spent. That’s what the Mets did on July 4, racking up four runs in 3 1/3 innings off All-Star Gerrit Cole, whose situations were as sticky as his grip might no longer be, and […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Fucking Idiots, Gerrit Cole, Jose Peraza, Lucas Luetge, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Subway Series, Tomas Nido, Yankees MLB announced its All-Star finalists on Sunday. No Mets were mentioned. No Mets came close to being mentioned. Off all the choices that could be ranked, no critical mass ranked enough Mets for the runoff. A first-place team in the nation’s largest market has gone so under the radar on a positional basis that even […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Batting Average, Corey Oswalt, Garrison Keillor, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Kung Fu Fighting, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rico Carty, Ron Santo, Rudy, The Odd Couple, Zack Wheeler |
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