 
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. |
So the Mets had another team meeting … and things got worse. Worse as in 12-1, worse as in out of it by the top of the second, worse as in Travis Jankowski finished up on the mound (before seeing a 2025 Mets AB, no less). Frankie Montas was terrible, the relievers who followed him weren’t […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anger, Cap Game, Eric Chavez, Frankie Montas, Jeremy Barnes, No Offense, Pirates, PNC Park, Rockies, Sweeps, Travis Jankowski Maybe you remember The Game-Ending Unassisted Triple Play Game, or TGEUTPG. If a game earns its name from a particular event within, it stands a pretty good chance of maintaining notoriety, with “notoriety” in this case being used correctly. TGEUTPG concluded with Luis Castillo on second base, Daniel Murphy on first, and Jeff Francoeur batting in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, David Wright, Eras, Eric Bruntlett, Four-Inning Saves, Gary Rajsich, Inflection Points, Jeff Francoeur, Jeff McNeil, Long-Term Progress, Nadirs, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Plateaus, Pummelings, Rockies, Strides, Team History, Unassisted Triple Play, Under .500, West Wing There’s a lot one could say about Ronny Mauricio‘s third-inning home run in Denver Saturday night, starting with the fact that it went 456 feet and came down in the third deck. That’s … a long way. The third deck is a place where fans sit contentedly expecting not to be involved in the proceedings way […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Clay Holmes, Dick Monfort, Francisco Lindor, German Marquez, Home Runs, Jared Young, Jeff McNeil, Julian Merryweather, Justin Garza, Luis Torrens, Rockies, Ronny Mauricio The Mets played a strange game against the Greater Denver Daiquiri Machine Operators Local nine, who were sure spiffy in uniforms designed to look like the libations they serve so cheerfully. Oh wait, those were the Colorado Rockies, who inexplicably retired the best City Connects in the program and now look like human slushies. Their […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Chris Conroy, City Connects, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jake Bird, Kodai Senga, Mickey Moniak, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Ryan McMahon, Ryne Stanek, Strike Zones, Umpiring, Zach Agnos Some ballgames elude complexity. Sunday’s had on one side of Citi Field the team that was tied for best record in its league, and on the other side of the divide the team with the worst record in all of baseball. The team with a best-record claim had three world-class sluggers. The team with the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Johnny Mathis, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Simplicity Saturday’s game against the Rockies, the last tilt of May, was observed by your chronicler via a kaleidoscope of information sources from way out here in Tacoma, Wash.: looking down at MLB.tv on my phone during one of the Pacific Northwest’s never-quite-remitting rainstorms, via MLB Audio when the bandwidth pipe was a little too narrow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Antonio Senzatela, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, City Connects, Dick Monfort, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Jesus Alou, Jonahs, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Minor Leagues, Ownership, Rhylan Thomas, Rockies, Ron Herbel, Salt Lake City Bees, Shintaro Fujinami, Tacoma Rainiers, Trevor Gott, Tyrone Taylor, Yolmer Sanchez A staple of postgame postmortems, specifically in the games where leads got away within sports whose rigidly timed action flows back and forth, is that the team that lost played not to lose rather than to win. Their defense wasn’t aggressive enough. Their offense wasn’t opportunistic enough. Winning wasn’t the priority. Not losing was, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliches, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Not Losing, Reed Garrett, Rockies, Starling Marte On Sunday morning, I read the Mets had lost their final game before the All-Star break the previous seven years there had been an All-Star break (which is to say not including 2020). Hence, I kept my hopes in check that the Mets would extend their momentum to a six-game winning streak and burnish the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Annual Loss Before the Break, Ezequiel Tovar, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Michael Toglia, Pete Alonso, Rockies We’ve all said it. Made it a mantra, even. Enemy runner on first, maybe other bases too, maybe they’re loaded. Outs? Not enough of them. Maybe just one. Maybe none. C’mon, get a ground ball. It’s been called the pitcher’s best friend for a century or more — the ball put in play that yields two outs […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Brendan Rodgers, Christian Scott, Citi Connect, Dedniel Nunez, Double Plays, Elias Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Jose Butto, Kevin Elster, Luis Torrens, Rockies, Ryan Feltner, Viktor Vodnik Even in this age of humidors, Coors Field still produces games like Saturday night’s, with hits raining down like artillery, big leads proving smaller than they look on paper, a starting pitcher who’s been effective elsewhere left gasping for air, and relievers sawing the bullpen phone off the wall and hiding in that weird little […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | City Connect, Coors Field, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Justin Verlander, Nolan Jones, Rockies, Starling Marte |
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