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 […]
 
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. |
 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 At one end of the rickety Passarelle Boardwalk, the US Open was just getting going. I shared my LIRR train from Woodside with people who were far too clean, fit, and stylish to be going to the other end of those dubious planks. Not exactly a slobs versus snobs scenario, but our differences were palpable. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, Annie, Astros, Back-to-Back Leadoff Home Runs, Bill Shea, Bob Moorhead, Bull Durham, Chris Devenski, Christopher Morel, Don Zimmer, Francisco Lindor, Jared Young, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Last Active Shea Met, LIRR, Max Scherzer, Mets Outfielders-Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen-Outfielders, Metsoterica, NBC, Passarelle Boardwalk, Recidivist Mets, Robert Stock, Rod Kanehl, September Callups, Sunday Night Baseball, T-shirts, Tennis, Tug McGraw, Zac Thornton The good part of Wednesday night’s game? It was Faith and Fear reunited for the first time since the 2024 postseason, sitting together waaaaay up in the seats where you duck your head to avoid the bellies of planes. We had a grand time taking stock of Andy Green, the Mets’ future prospects, retired numbers, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Blowouts, Brewers, Dustin May, Robert Stock, Squirrels Let’s go live to the internal dialogue I’ve developed in the wake of the august Mets play of August 2026, right up through their 4-2 victory over the Padres at Citi Field on Wednesday afternoon. The Mets are winning some baseball games lately. 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, A.J. Ewing, Austin Warren, Baseball Scores, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Christopher Morel, Daniel Duarte, Francisco Lindor, Gabriel Arias, Jared Young, Jonathan Pintaro, Jorge Polanco, Kodai Senga, Nate Lavender, Robert Stock, Small Sample Sizes, The Replacements In the course of three starts in his second term as a Met, Robert Stock has reminded me in some way, shape, or form of five different Met pitchers who came before him. Rick Anderson, a 29-year-old career minor leaguer, was called up as a stopgap starter in June of 1986. Hard to believe the 1986 […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Butch Huskey, Don Schulze, Gabriel Ynoa, J.D. Davis, Jonathan Pintaro, Kodai Senga, Mad Men, Met Types, Mets Once Removed, Mike Birkbeck, Moment of Silence, Rick Anderson, Robert Stock, Ron Swoboda, Sammy Stafura, Stopgap Starters, Tom Edens, Tom Filer If you had plans Saturday night that didn’t involve watching the Mets, well, I applaud your life choices. Robert Stock was unlucky at first and then had no one to point the finger at unless a mirror was involved, which led to him being left out on the Pittsburgh mound to take a beating. (The modern […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bubba Chandler, Carson Benge, Gabriel Arias, Jonah Tong, Luis Torrens, Pirates, Position Players Pitching, Robert Stock Freddy Peralta, Huascar Brazoban and Brooks Raley have followed A.J Minter to greener pastures, with the likes of Luke Weaver and Tyrone Taylor still wondering if they will have new employers come Tuesday when the Mets and Guardians renew their (checks notes) utterly nonexistent rivalry. I’ll spare you highly amateur scouting: I know no more than […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Emilien Pitre, Freddy Peralta, Garbage Time, Huascar Brazoban, John Spikerman, Luke Gabrysh, Luke Weaver, Marlins, Reed Garrett, Robert Stock, Trade Deadline, Tyrone Taylor This lost season has brought some actual good developments, among them Emily and I embracing the joys of “ambient baseball.” That’s baseball as an amiable companion, welcomed but not fussed over, and happening nearby as you have a conversation or eat something or just enjoy a peaceful moment. You can make an MLB game into ambient […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Chris Suero, Christian Arroyo, Edgardo Alfonzo, Francisco Lindor, Kevin Parada, Mirabito Stadium, NBT Bank Stadium, Nick Morabito, Nolan McLean, Phillies, R.J. Gordon, Road Trips, Rob Gardner, Robert Stock, Syracuse Mets, The Rob Gardner Game, Tobias Myers Great, there will actually be a season! Which means we have business to attend to — extending a slightly overdue welcome to 2021’s matriculating Mets, who are now in The Holy Books! (Background: I have three binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Aaron Loup, Akeem Bostick, Albert Almora Jr., Anthony Banda, Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Brad Hand, Brandon Drury, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Carrasco, Chance Sisco, Figgs, Francisco Lindor, Geoff Hartlieb, Heath Hembree, Jacob Barnes, Jake Hager, Jake Reed, James McCann, Javier Baez, Jerad Eickhoff, Joey Lucchesi, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonahs, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Jose Peraza, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Mason Williams, Nick Tropeano, Patrick Mazeika, Rich Hill, Robert Stock, Sean Reid-Foley, Stephen Tarpley, Taijuan Walker, The Holy Books, Thomas Szapucki, Tommy Hunter, Tommy Milone, Travis Blankenhorn, Trevor Hildenberger, Trevor May, Trevor Williams, Tylor Megill, Yennsy Diaz CHAPTER 92: STOCK, NOGOSEK & HARTLIEB Following the Mets’ heaven-shaking, seven-homer, eleven-inning 15-11 triumph on Monday night July 19, their active roster didn’t have time to settle down. Dave Jauss, running the club during Luis Rojas’s two-game suspension, had announced in the aftermath of that historic victory — it was the only the second time the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Dave Jauss, Geoff Hartlieb, Oral History, Robert Stock, Roster Turnover, Stephen Nogosek |
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