Thursday night I came home from Game Four of the National League Championship Series resigned to the 2024 Mets season being imminently over. Friday morning I awoke thinking only that there’d be a baseball game come late afternoon and that the Mets would be playing in it, and between the regular season and the postseason, […]
 
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. |
Here’s an unforgivable fan sin: “I don’t want them to clinch tonight because I have tickets for tomorrow and want to see it myself.” I’ve heard that a time or two, and it’s all I can do to limit myself to pointed disagreement instead of reacting in a way that would get me taken away in […]  43 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Abysmal Finishes Held in Abeyance, Alec Bohm, Brandon Marsh, Bryce Harper, Carlos Estevez, Carlos Mendoza, Clinchings, Cow-Bell Man, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Grand Slams, Grimace, Jeff Hoffman, Jose Quintana, Kody Clemens, Kyle Schwarber, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Ranger Suarez, Reed Garrett, The 7 Line, Trea Turner The New York Mets broke it to me gently early Saturday evening. They appreciate my help, but they got this. They have a plan, they know what they’re doing, they’re going to do it, I can just relax. I nodded my understanding. I’m not going to relax, but I think I get what they’re telling […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Postseason, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, David Peterson, Doubt, Jose Iglesias, Kodai Senga, Phillies, Reed Garrett, Zack Wheeler I can feel it coming. Maybe it’ll be this year, or in five or in 10, but it’s a when and not an if: My physician will settle himself or herself on a stool, make sure I’m paying attention, and say the inevitable words. Mr. Fry, you need to stop watching baseball. There will be alternatives offered: […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luis Severino, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reed Garrett, Taijuan Walker, Trea Turner Sunny Sunday, slight chill, right field corner, Citi Field. It’s September with a lead over our more or less blood rival in the Wild Card race, and I’m just waiting for the Mets to do something. Do something, do anything? No, I’m being vaguely specific in my desires. I’m waiting for the Mets to do […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ends of All Good Things, Frustration, Luis Severino, Michigan J. Frog, Phil Maton, Reds, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, The Social Network, Tom Seaver The Mets’ ebullient recent narrative showed a couple of cracks Friday night against the Reds. Francisco Lindor continued his hitting streak and made a nifty play at shortstop, but he didn’t walk off the Reds or solve the Middle East conflict in an idle moment between innings, somewhere between surprising and shocking given how he’s been […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, Brett Baty, Edwin Diaz, Elly de la Cruz, Hebrew Tattoos, J.D. Martinez, Jake Fraley, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Justin Wilson, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Reds, Reed Garrett, Sean Manaea, Spencer Steer, TJ Friedl, Walkoffs Take a moment and consider the life of Huascar Brazoban. Not long ago he was stuck on the Marlins, with Jazz Chisholm Jr. offering near-daily examples of being a bad teammate, Skip Schumaker staring out of the dugout like a man who can’t bear to think how long he’ll be on county work release, and the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jake Cronenworth, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Padres, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Reed Garrett, Rene Rivera Some random observations from the Mets’ cudgeling of Patrick Corbin and the Nationals: I’m going to get the complaining out of the way first: Dear God, what did they do to the black uniforms? Eliminating the white drop shadow was a dreadful idea; without it, the tops look murky and muddy, with the orange and blue […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Grimace, Hope, Jake Diekman, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Reed Garrett, Summer Nights, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms, Wild Card The basics of Tuesday night’s game all look good in the recapping. The Mets scored seven runs, powered by homers from Brandon Nimmo and Francisco Lindor, All-Stars in our hearts even if they aren’t accorded that status next week. Nimmo’s homer was a summer-night special, an apparent fly ball that got high up into the humid […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bad Relief Pitching, Dedniel Nunez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jake Irvin, Jose Quintana, Nationals, Phil Maton, Reed Garrett, Relief Pitching In the early going Saturday, it sure looked like the Mets had reverted to the unholy mess they were throughout May. In the first inning they followed second and third and nobody out with a pop-out and a pair of Ks; in the second they wasted a leadoff single and then a one-out double. In […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dennis Santana, Derek Shelton, Edwin Diaz, Jack Suwinski, John Tumpane, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Oneil Cruz, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Reed Garrett, Umpiring |
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