In retrospect, one wonders why so many teams scrambled to make the playoffs in 2026 when the outcome of those playoffs appears so inevitable in retrospect. If the goal was to simply qualify to play more baseball, that’s admirable (more baseball sounds fantastic knowing the sun is about to set a lot sooner and 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. |
What’s good for the goose may be good for the gander, but what’s grist for the Grid didn’t do the Guardians any good this week. That’s my way of saying my recent exploration of Mets who were Brewers/Brewers who were Mets and how they fit into nine little boxes is about to receive a sequel […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2026 Postseason, Al Lang Stadium, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bubba Trammell, Cedric Mullins, Cliff Floyd, Cole Sulser, Devil Rays, Dwight Gooden, Freddy Peralta, Goodfellas, Hideo Nomo, Immaculate Grid, Jason Tyner, Jose Bautista, Kelly Johnson, Miguel Cairo, Mike DiFelice, Paul Wilson, Rays, Rey Ordonez, Rey Sanchez, Rich Hill, Rick White, Roberto Hernandez, Scott Kazmir, Sluggo, Steven Matz, Ty Wigginton, Victor Zambrano, Wilson Ramos “I still get such a bang out of it,” John Cusack as Buck Weaver says late in Eight Men Out, the cinematic telling of the scandal that engulfed the 1919 Chicago White Sox, a team that was eliminated in the postseason, ostensibly because they weren’t trying to win. I thought of that line Wednesday night […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Postseason, Eight Men Out, Elimination Day, Rays, Sheadenfreude, Spectator Interference The Mets have used a franchise record-tying 64 players thus far this year. The proliferation of personnel has won them 63 games, or approximately one win per player. This ratio doesn’t exactly scream efficient allocation of resources, but that panoply of participants can sure make things exciting. Granted, the churn has backfired 77 times, but […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Brett Baty, Chris Devenski, Daniel Duarte, Dedniel Nunez, Games We Name, Gary Rajsich, Jared Young, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Justin Hagenman, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Nate Lavender, Nick Morabito, Pinch-Running, Rays, Roster Turnover, Tampa Bay Geography, The Kid from Left Field, Youth In a lost season, the least the Mets could do was not get beaten by Freddy Fucking Peralta. That wasn’t quite the only thing I wanted from the dregs of 2026, but it was pretty close to it: Sure, lose eleventy billion games while playing dull, uninspired baseball. Just don’t get beaten by the failed Met […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dylan Ross, Francisco Lindor, Freddy Peralta, Ghosts, Pete Alonso, Rays, Sean Manaea, The Holy Books The 2026 Mets are nobody’s genie, but they are on occasion capable of granting relatively small baseball wishes. Sometimes it takes them a while. When July was becoming August, and almost everybody you heard might be traded was getting traded, you might have wished “almost” could be upgraded to “everybody”. Specifically, Luis Robert, Jr., began […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cedric Mullins, Christopher Morel, Cristian Pache, FIP, Luis Robert Jr., Manny Machado, Mark Vientos, Old Friends, Pitcher Wins, Rays, Robert Stock, Steven Matz, Wishes BAZ was on the back of the jersey of the pitcher on the mound for Tampa Bay on Sunday. For a moment, I let myself believe BAZ was an icon on the level of CHER. Just one name. Just one syllable. All you needed to know was that BAZ was in town. No wonder Citi […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Bullpen Manipulation, Cher, David Peterson, Jared Young, Justin Garza, Position Players Pitching, Rays, Roster Size, Shane Baz, Ty Adcock As it’s Father’s Day, allow me this recollection of the night, over dinner, my father decided he needed to read us a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. What, this type of thing didn’t happen in your kitchen? This was when I was in seventh grade, so perhaps the impetus was me mentioning, only because I was asked, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Doyle, Butt Taps, Cole Sulser, Father's Day, Rays, Rudyard Kipling, Tylor Megill Except for the top of the sixth inning, Friday night at Citi Field was a pretty good game. The Mets scored five runs versus the Tampa Bay Rays and received five solid innings from Clay Holmes. Gotta like things of that nature occurring. It’s a shame the top of the sixth, when Paul Blackburn and Max […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Edwin Uceta, Eric Orze, LOBs, Old Friends, Paul Blackburn, Rays, Ronny Mauricio 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 […] 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 |
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