I don’t know if therapy rays are actually a thing (they probably are), but I’ve been to Tropicana Field, which has the affect of the world’s largest basement rec room and smells vaguely like pool cleaner, and the most interesting part of the stadium is the oft-shown pool where cownose rays swim around in a […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Luis Severino, Pete Alonso, Randy Arozarena, Rays, Stolen Bases, Tropicana Field Jose Quintana reported for work without any of the essentials, got bombed, and the Mets fought back gallantly but it wasn’t enough, the end. That would suffice for a bite-sized recap, I suppose — this felt like one of the 50 or 60 or however many it is games that you’re guaranteed to lose, with the […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Brett Baty, City Connect, Francisco Lindor, Jose Quintana, Rays, Starling Marte, Tropicana Field Adrian Houser seems like a decent sort. And he pitched cromulently enough for the Brewers last year: eight wins, a 4.12 ERA, a 3.99 FIP that suggested he’d earned his more conventional numbers. Yet he’s the first 2024 Met I can’t stand. Houser’s been horrible, which he admitted after the latest debacle on Saturday, calling his pitching […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Cardinals, City Connect, Feckless Nibblers, Francisco Lindor, Josh Walker, Pete Alonso, Pitchers, Prayers for Deliverance, Rays, Ryan Helsley, Tylor Megill I followed Thursday afternoon’s game from Citi Field as much as I possibly could, and it followed me almost but not fully everywhere I had to go. Thursday afternoons can be uncooperative that way. I had TV at the beginning and end, radio on and off in the middle, and pitches missed here and there. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fabulous Thunderbirds, Field Of Dreams, Mood, Pete Alonso, Rays, Tylor Megill For most of Wednesday night, my only thought was that feeling pain because of the Mets was actually progress: better writhing in agony than sitting dour and numb watching another night of bad baseball, as we have for the last three and a half weeks. Kodai Senga was the best he’s looked as a Met, with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Comebacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Hope, Jose Siri, Kodai Senga, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Pete Fairbanks, Rays, Rookies, Walkoffs The Mets said all the right things after getting beaten by the Rays 8-5 on Tuesday night in a game that was not nearly as close as the final score suggests. Justin Verlander talked about understanding the fans’ frustration and about how the players were frustrated too and about needing to work hard. Buck Showalter […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Drew Smith, Frustration, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Rays, Starling Marte Less than 24 hours after the Mets lost to the Rays by one run on Friday night, the Mets were losing by one run to the Rays on Saturday afternoon, yet whereas Friday’s defeat grated deeply as a one-run loss will, the one-run deficit the Mets were alternately trying to overcome and maintain Saturday didn’t […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bench Mob, Bullpen Games, Bulpability, Churves, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jake Barnes, Jake Hager, Jeurys Familia, Joey Lucchesi, Jose Peraza, Khalil Lee, Pete Alonso, Rays, Sean Reid-Foley, St. Petersburg, Tommy Hunter One of my more searing minor Mets memories — to use a very Mets-fan turn of phrase — is from May 3, 1996. That was Paul Wilson‘s sixth career start, against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Wilson, one-third of the vaunted Generation K, hadn’t exactly streaked out of the gate: As the second month of his […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Loup, Brett Phillips, David Peterson, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Padlo, Luis Rojas, Manuel Margot, Mike Zunino, Paul Wilson, Rays, Sammy Sosa, Trevor May, Tyler Glasnow, Young Pitching In the final World Series baseball played in the (reportedly) pre-Steve Cohen era of (potential) Metsian salvation, the pitcher who shouldn’t have been removed from the mound came out too soon; the player who had to be removed from the field came back against sound judgment; and the championship tournament appended to a season that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Postseason, Blake Snell, Brett Phillips, Dodgers, Hill Street Blues, Justin Turner, Kevin Cash, Pandemics, Randy Arozarena, Rays, World Series, World Series Ending Somehow, the summer seemed to slip by faster this time. Meteorological summer ended on September 1 at midnight. Astronomical summer ended this morning, September 22, at 9:30. The Mets’ summer barely happened at all. The baseball season, such as it’s been, began July 24 and if it didn’t end last night, we know it’s going, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fall, Guillermo Heredia, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Rays, Summer |
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