 
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. |
As a connoisseur of postgame media scrums, I recognize a no-win question when I hear it. No-win questions are asked after brutal losses that carry almost definitive consequences. It almost doesn’t matter how the question is answered. The question just has to be asked. The no-win question that was asked of Carlos Mendoza following the Mets’ […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brad “The Animal” Lesley, Brandon Sproat, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Dylan Ross, Francisco Lindor, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Mark Vientos, Marlins, Media Scrums, Mistakes, No-Win Questions, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Sandy Alcantara, The Odd Couple, Tyler Phillips One recipe for a good baseball game? A sequence of unlikely events. No-hitters flipped into walkoffs, storming back to a ninth-inning win, Houdini-ing your way out of what looks like statistical doom, that kind of thing. Monday night’s game in Philadelphia was a good game, much as we would have preferred a duller one with a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, Aaron Nola, Aborted Comebacks, Citizens Bank Park, Francisco Alvarez, Jeff McNeil, Jhoan Duran, Nick Castellanos, Nolan McLean, Phillies, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley The Mets were playing the Brewers Saturday night. I had recap. I went to see “Superman” with my family — a movie I’d already seen. I did that because I’d reached the point where I can’t stand this team, which right now combines a deep-rooted cruddiness with a magnetic attraction to disaster. Knowing they’ll find a way to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, Eric Chavez, Francisco Lindor, Jeremy Barnes, Pete Alonso, Ronny Mauricio, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Steve Cohen, William Contreras Every time we come to Southern California, we are absolutely the Clampetts. Albert Hammond offered a rather broad assertion in 1972 when he informed the nation’s pop radio listening audience that it never rains in Southern California. Seems it rarely rains in Southern California. On May 12, 1998, the Mets visited San Diego and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Albert Hammond, Elias Diaz, Fernando Tatis, Frankie Montas, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Gregory Soto, Huascar Brazoban, Jack Murphy Stadium, Jose Iglesias, Luis Arraez, Mark Vientos, Padres, Petco Park, Ronny Mauricio, The West Wing, Walkoff Losses The Mets fell behind in the fifth inning Sunday night, as Matt Chapman launched a second home run off Kodai Senga. That made the score 3-2 Giants with 12 outs left for making up the deficit. Funny what a six-game winning streak will do for you. “We’ll get ’em,” I assured my mother, and to my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Edwin Diaz, Giants, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Kodai Senga, Matt Chapman, Randy Rodriguez, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Trade Deadline, Willy Adames I decided it was time to reintroduce myself to my baseball team. The Mets entered the All-Star break by losing an annoying game to the Royals, which isn’t exactly a new occurrence in 2025. I didn’t bother with the ASG beyond shrugging at the swing-off, and was relieved to have a few days’ break from this […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Frankie Montas, Kyle Hendricks, Mike Trout, Nolan Schanuel, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Rico Garcia, Ronny Mauricio, Ryne Stanek And on the last day of the first half,* the Mets presented us with a fan’s oldest philosophical conundrum: Is it better to come back and lose, or not to come back at all? The philosophy lesson came at the very end: Before that, the Mets followed one of their more frustrating 2025 scripts, in which […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Annual Loss Before the Break, Carlos Estevez, Clay Holmes, Futile Comebacks, Jared Young, Jeff McNeil, Kyle Isbel, Nick Loftin, Noah Cameron, Ronny Mauricio, Royals, Sean Manaea, Tyler Tolbert So you want to be a big-league pitcher? Baltimore’s Brandon Young entered the game sporting an ERA north of seven — hmm, come to think of it that’s less “sporting” than “lugging” or “enduring.” But there’s a reason they actually play the games: Young looked terrific against the Mets, allowing just a pair of hits in […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Carrillo, Baseball Cards, Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Young, Brett Baty, Bryan Baker, Clay Holmes, Comebacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Jackson Holliday, Orioles, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, The Holy Books, Yennier Cano “Does anyone still wear a hat?” Elaine Stritch was known to ask. If anyone does — and I know it’s done at Citi Field — I hope hats have been held onto tightly, for the Mets won a ballgame in their ballpark Wednesday night. Surprising, I know. The Mets, losers of 10 of their previous 11, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Bench Mob, Bill Pulsipher, Clay Holmes, Didier Fuentes, Elaine Stritch, Halfway Point, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Pintaro, Juan Soto, Ronny Mauricio, Stephen Sondheim, Time’s Flight, Youthful Exploits 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 |
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