Horrible weather, horrible offseason, horrible everything. You know what might put some pep in our collective step? Looking back at guys who made their Mets debuts during the horrible 2023 season! Some of these guys have already vanished from memory; others we merely wish we could unremember. Like I said, horrible. But they matriculated in […]
 
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 |  2023 Mets, Abraham Almonte, Adam Kolarek, Anthony Kay, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, Danny Mendick, David Robertson, Dennis Santana, Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Dominic Leone, Edwin Uceta, Gary Sanchez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, John Curtiss, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Sam Coonrod, T.J. McFarland, The Holy Books, Tim Locastro, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller, Vinny Nittoli, Zach Muckenhirn I’ve never felt more like Jack Buck after returning home from a ballgame, for “I don’t believe that I don’t know what I just saw!” Did I see the Mets play the Marlins? Pretty sure I did. That was important to me, as, entering Thursday, I had not seen the Mets play the Marlins in person […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astounding Lack of Resolution, David Peterson, Marlins, Rafael Ortega, Rain Delays, Suspended Games, The Log As one who doesn’t subscribe to Peacock, I couldn’t tell you what Sunday’s Mets-Angels game looked like, but from the sound of it over WCBS-AM, it was quite the staring contest. The Mets stared at the Angels. The Angels stared at the Mets. It was 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. Two teams used to staring into […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Angels, Austin Jackson, Casey Kasem, Cory Sullivan, David Peterson, Dead End Achievers, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Interlopers Among Us, Kevin Bass, Nori Aoki, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Radio, Rafael Ortega, Ron Swoboda, Semi-Pro, Shohei Ohtani, Team History, Walkoffs, Wilson Delgado Let’s put a big asterisk on this one right away: There’s no such thing as revenge when one team is a cool 23 games ahead in the standings. The Braves losing a game to the Mets is like getting a mosquito bite on your way to the car after a bug-free picnic: You’ll scowl and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, David Peterson, DJ Stewart, Francisco Lindor, Kevin Pillar, Michael Harris II, Rafael Ortega Ah well. A nightmarish inning of bullpenning, combined with Paul Goldschmidt realizing, “Hey I’m Paul Goldschmidt,” did away with the Mets’ modest winning streak and hopes of sweeping the Cardinals, and I was first surprised and then a little heartened to register that I was annoyed. I didn’t think I was still capable of that, not […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, DJ Stewart, Jonathan Arauz, Paul Goldschmidt, Rafael Ortega, Trevor Gott 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 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 The Mets — yes, those Mets, the ones you root for even though the reason is no longer faintly discernable — won a baseball game. A baseball game played against the Atlanta Braves, no less. They won it slowly and then in a hurry and then slowly again: Kodai Senga fell behind 3-0 in the first when […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Collin McHugh, Kodai Senga, Rafael Ortega, Yonny Chirinos The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2015 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bill Haas, Claude Raymond, Danny Mendick, Dismal Present, Eric Campbell, George Weiss, Jack Fisher, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathan Arauz, Mark Canha, Phil Bickford, Potentially Brighter Future, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Royals, Special Draft, Steve Cohen, Team History Some days can’t possibly be summed up by one post. So consider this one just the start of a conversation that kicks off tonight but will go on in some form for years. The Mets traded pretty much everybody. Justin Verlander went back to the Astros, where — as I semi-seriously predicted — he’ll now face […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Dominic Leone, Embarrassment, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Rafael Ortega, Royals, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham, Trade Deadline, Trades |
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