When you play in a bandbox, strike up the band nice and loud. The Mets hit only one home run on Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium and lost by seven. The Mets hit three home runs on Tuesday night in the same selectively diminutive venue — brothers […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1976 Mets, 90th Birthdays, At This Pace, Carlos Beltran, Contemporary Bobby Riggs Reference, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Doris Day, Frank Thomas, Hack Wilson, Home Runs, Marlon Byrd, Mickey Mantle, Pete Alonso, Roger Maris, Subway Series, Team History, Todd Hundley Goodness knows the Mets have had plenty of drama in this very strange year. But every so often, they play a baseball game that’s just a baseball game, refreshingly free of sideshows and controversies and agita. And it’s a reminder that, to quote the endlessly quotable Bull Durham, “this game’s fun, damn it.” At our house […] Maybe Mickey Callaway took some cold medicine early in Tuesday night’s game. I took some cold medicine early in Tuesday night’s game and saw printed clearly on the back of the box, WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE PITCHING CHANGES. Really, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Draft, Madison Bumgarner, Mickey Callaway, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Questionable Managerial Decisions, Robert Gsellman, Ron Darling, Seth Lugo, That Kumquat Tom Brady, Tom Brady So if Jason Vargas pitches well — and I mean “pitches well,” without any ironic amplification, subtle disparagement or other snobby little digs — and the Mets lose anyway, what sound does a Met fan make at 1 in the morning? If you’re me, it’s a long, drawn-out sigh. Vargas pitched well. Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched better. Ryu […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hyun-Jin Ryu, J.D. Davis, Jason Vargas, Pete Alonso, Umpiring As Wednesday night’s game became Thursday morning’s game, the storyline seemed pretty clear — clear enough that I scribbled some notes for myself to peruse around now. Let’s see if I can decipher them: No aces And in a […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Debacles, Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, Losses, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Todd Frazier “Did you get everything we need for the party? I don’t think these painfully bland t-shirts we promised are going to excite anybody.” 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Amed Rosario, Drew Gagnon, Ervin Santana, Hector Santiago, Home Runs, Matt Kemp, Miguel Cabrera, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Tigers, Wild Parties, Wilson Ramos One of the benefits of going to a baseball game rather than watching it on television is there’s no seven-second delay. Everything that happens happens and, as the spirit of Walter Cronkite might suggest, you are there. But Tuesday night at Citi Field, which is where I […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Backpacks, Citi Field, Citi Pavilion, Friday Night Lights, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Manufacturers Hanover, Not Backpacks, Pete Alonso, Pocket Schedules, Walter Cronkite, Zack Wheeler For the life of me I can’t figure this Mets team out. They’re built in a slapdash manner, with wildly optimistic Plan As and aw-shucks shrugs for Plan Bs. They can’t field. The hitting, relief and even the vaunted starting pitching are all inconsistent, lighting up and then going dark and making you want to bang […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Jacob deGrom, Jorge Alfaro, Marlins, Pete Alonso The Mets beat the Marlins Saturday night, and while they didn’t score eight in the first — or eight at all — it was a pretty convincing victory. The headline was that Jacob deGrom looked like his old self once again: On Saturday he carved the Marlins up for the first three innings with a […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Pete Alonso, Sandy Alcantara Pete Alonso was National League Rookie of the Month for April and National League Rookie of the Night on Tuesday. He is a veteran in kid’s clothing any time you hear him speak. He is a franchise player exploding all around us.
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