Welcome to the Brett Baty Era of New York Mets baseball. It is fitting that you can’t spell “Bretty Baty” without “era”. After Wednesday night, the same could be said of “Max Scherzer,” “Starling Marte,” “Trevor May,” “Peter Alonso,” “Edwin Orlando Diaz” and “Francisco A. Lindor.” Lindor’s middle name is Miguel, actually, but you can […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Bret Baty, Callups, Debuts, Eras, Max Scherzer, Mets Third Basemen, Old Timers Day, Prospects, Team History, Youth Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I got the horse right here Psst…over […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Hope, Ike Davis, Prospects You knew me as Peter if you knew me at all You’ve […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, First Base, Pete Alonso, Peter Alonso, Prospects, Second Chances, Spring Training Last games before All-Star breaks are an intriguing subgenre. I can clearly remember the Mets going out on high notes that were microcosms of the momentum they rode as first halves closed. You don’t want the pause in the schedule, you don’t want the bats put away, you can’t wait to get back to baseball […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, Amed Rosario, Energy, Hype, Patience, Paul DeJong, Prospects, Slight Delusions of Contention, Steven Matz, Tired Blood Can your blogger file his recap within the 24-hour window? Well, with an 11 am start he can. Why was the answer even close to know? Because this was the first game of the season I had no desire whatsoever to recap — which for me is usually a sign that I’ve finally accepted that the competitive part […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Nationals, Prospects, Seth Lugo, T.J. Rivera We were excited in August of 2013. Reasonably excited, anyway. The Mets were 13½ games out of first place and 10 behind in the Wild Card stakes when the month began, so I wouldn’t oversell the euphoria angle. Yet as fans of teams that are not contending will, we readily embraced the chance to meet […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Casey Stengel, Epic Wins, Jayson Werth, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Prospects, Slides, Thoracic Outlet Surgery, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler So I’ve been reading this great book by Scott Weidensaul called The First Frontier, about the wars between the early colonists and the Indians. And a stray passage in it reminded me of something I’d forgotten: Connecticut’s 1662 charter claimed its western boundary was the “South Sea,” AKA the Pacific Ocean. This strikes us as […] I didn’t know much about Wilmer Flores before his promotion last week, primarily because I cultivate a state of plausible deniability where the Met minor leagues are concerned. I remain mostly blissfully ignorant about Met prospects because, quite frankly, I don’t want to know. With a handful of exceptions at the Harvey-Wheeler level, I figure […] In a season turned disappointing, Matt Harvey’s performances just get more encouraging. Harvey throws a fastball in the high 90s and supplements it with a good curve and slider and a developing change-up, so this statement wouldn’t seem to be edging too far from the tree trunk. But none of Harvey’s pitches was working particularly well […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Prospects Scenes from the end of a losing streak: • Matt Harvey striking out 11 in five-and-a-third shutout innings. • Matt Harvey showing command of multiple pitches. • Matt Harvey oozing poise and maturity. One night in Phoenix and the world’s our oyster. For one night, anyway. Per the epidemic of being cautioned against what I’m not supposed to read into the […] |
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