 
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 are suddenly good. Well, not good exactly. Statistically speaking, they’re average. But in the vibes column — which you won’t find in your paper, on MLB.com or Baseball Reference, so don’t look for it — the Mets are killing it. They rose to average statistically and red hot vibe-istically by beating the Pirates in an […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Adrian Houser, Andrew McCutchen, Aroldis Chapman, Bud Selig, Butch Huskey, Connor Joe, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Edwin Moscoso, Harrison Bader, Jackie Robinson, Pirates, Rachel Robinson, Toby Borland It was a DJ Stewart, Rafael Ortega kind of day at Citi Field Wednesday afternoon, which wasn’t incompatible with it being a winning kind of day, for Ortega was on base four different times three different ways and Stewart socked a pair of homers and was in on a pair of sparkling defensive plays, and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bullpen Churn, Dennis Santana, DJ Stewart, Edwin Uceta, Mets Third Basemen, Pirates, Rafael Ortega, Roster Turnover, Tylor Megill “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 Imagine being Sam Coonrod. You go to spring training with a loaded team being talked up as bound for the World Series. You’re being talked up as a prospective member of said team’s bullpen. It’s got to be exciting. But you don’t get out of March before being felled by a strained lat. The team goes north […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Garbage Time, Jonathan Arauz, Phil Bickford, Pirates, Rafael Ortega, Sam Coonrod, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller It’s a nice enough Sunday, the Mets game from Pittsburgh is on, I’m happy to be tuned in even if I’m only sort of paying attention to the Mets trailing the Pirates. I see Luis Guillorme called out on strikes because he was a second or so late in facing the pitcher with the count […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Attention, DVD Rental, Josh Walker, Losing Streak Aftermath, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Pitch Clock, Tommy Pham On Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh the Mets … won a baseball game. That’s it. They played a baseball game and it ended with more runs for the Mets than their opponents, so they won. That shouldn’t be particularly noteworthy, yet alone breathtaking, yet after the frustrations of Toronto and the horrors of Atlanta and the hungover […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Dauri Moreta, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Steve Cohen I would prefer not to. Glop is the word that occurred to me after sitting through the Mets and Pirates getting gloppy with one another at Citi Field Sunday afternoon. I don’t even know if I’ve ever used the word glop before, but it seems to fit. I had to look it up to make sure it really is a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Dan Fogelberg, Daniel Vogelbach, Dark Brandon, Hit By Pitch, Jacob deGrom, Joan Hodges, Moment of Silence, Pinch-Running, Pirates, Strikeouts, Sundays, Terrance Gore, Tote Bags Saturday night’s Mets win over the Pirates had a certain family resemblance to Friday night’s win: smothering starting pitching, enough offense to secure the victory, not enough offense to feel secure about said victory. The margin was more comfortable, to be sure, but once again the Mets proved curiously allergic to the tack-on hit that would […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Eduardo Escobar, Pete Alonso, Pirates On Friday night the Mets played one of those OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR games: They seemed to have the Pittsburgh Pirates well in hand for a second straight night, starting with Taijuan Walker not giving up a hit until the fourth. The Mets repeatedly looked on the verge of knocking the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Edwin Diaz, Farewells, John Stearns, Luis Guillorme, Oneil Cruz, Pirates, Taijuan Walker |
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