Someday, the Mets will do that thing you want them to do. They’ll figure out a place for Brett Baty, whether on the field or in another town. They’ll let a pitcher go as deep as his arm will allow him. They’ll hit a ball past a Brewer with runners on base. They’ll take less […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Brewers, Christian Scott, Records, Red Sox, Timing, Winning Streaks, Wishes On July 12, 2015, a curious Met void was filled when Kirk Nieuwenhuis homered not once, not twice, but thrice at Citi Field, leading his team over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks, 5-3, in the final game before the All-Star break. Until that Sunday afternoon, no Met had ever hit three home runs in a home […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Mets, Devin Williams, Elton John, Francisco Lindor, Game Before the All-Star Break, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Luke Weaver, Patent-Pending Losses, Red Sox, Team History, Worsts, Zach Thornton Back in the summer of 1975, Joe Torre hit into four double plays as a Met, and cracked that he couldn’t have done it without Felix — meaning Felix Millan, who’d preceded his futility with four singles. The Mets lost, 6-2. On Friday night the Mets were a lot more democratic in their shared futility, but […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Anthony Seigler, Cionel Perez, Felix Millan, Joe Torre, Juan Soto, Masataka Yoshida, Red Sox, Sonny Gray, Travel, Wilyer Abreu Savor this. That’s always the warning when your baseball team is playing taut, crackling ball at a pinch me level. It seems inconceivable, but the good times will end. The hits will stop falling in, balls will start just eluding gloves, relievers will enter jams and emerge scathed. Baseball’s karmic wheel will turn and somehow joy […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Luck, Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Disappointment, Fenway Park, Losing Streaks, Red Sox, Walker Buehler These days, you don’t have to be in the New York area — or the outer limits of AM radio range — to keep up with the Mets. You just need an MLB account and a certain amount of cell service. Well, and a little luck. The beginning of the Mets’ game against the Red Sox found […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Giveaways, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, Luis Severino, MLB At Bat, Phil Maton, Red Sox The Earth keeps going around the sun; the Mets keep going in circles. On Sunday night they dropped the rubber game of their series with the Red Sox in numbingly familiar fashion: no hitting, bad pitching, bad defense. To which we might add that they looked torpid and useless, trudging around morosely while being dismantled by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Joely Rodriguez, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Red Sox, Tommy Pham Once again, it’s sand in the hourglass time — the last few grains, the regret about what could have been, the wanting it to just be over, and the reminding yourself that as soon as it is you’ll want a little more. The Mets have become the old joke about the food being terrible and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Hand, Eduardo Rodriguez, Gary DiSarcina, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Red Sox “Everywhere I went,” Marvin Gaye and, later, James Taylor sang, “it seems I’d been there before.” In that spirit of history either repeating or rhyming, I’d have to say that on Wednesday night, I kind of got what they were getting at. On October 25, 1986, though the result didn’t go final until the earliest hour […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2006 NLCS, Andres Gimenez, Blake Swihart, Christian Vazquez, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Frustration, Jacob deGrom, James Taylor, Jim Edmonds, John McNamara, Jose Reyes, Justin Wilson, Larry Gelbart, Marvin Gaye, Moment of Silence, Red Sox, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Willie Randolph Every day of Improv Season 2020 is another moment to cock your head, say “huh” and try and figure things out. Most of that’s been a little anxious. I know Citi Field well enough that just seeing its geometry was enough for my sense of familiarity to kick in and make me think, “I can work […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Debuts, Dillon Gee, Fenway Park, Pandemics, Red Sox On Van Wagenen’s Eve, when all we Whos in Whoville gathered around the great big archetype and tried to divine how exactly a superagent morphed overnight into a general manager, we reflected briefly on how we stayed engaged by Metsless baseball for the better part of a […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Postseason, Alex Cora, Astros, Bob Uecker, Brewers, Brodie Van Wagenen, Bull Durham, Curtis Granderson, Dodgers, General Manager, Justin Turner, Red Sox, Sausages, World Series Ending |
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