 
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. |
Unfortunately, bonkers wins count the same as ho-hum ones. The Mets’ 7-6 extra-inning win Monday night in Atlanta was certainly bonkers, even certifiably so. Proof: Juan Soto hit a go-ahead home run into the upper reaches of the Chophouse (rudely interrupting its trajectory to the moon) with two outs in the ninth and there was some […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Brooks Raley, Devin Williams, Extra Innings, Francisco Alvarez, Freddy Peralta, Great Escapes, Jared Young, Jim Jarvis, Jose Azocar, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Luke Weaver, Matt Olson, Mauricio Dubon, Owen Murphy, Ozzie Albies, Raisel Iglesias, Ronny Mauricio, Splits So let’s see. The Mets… …turned Sean Manaea‘s sixth pitch of the game into a 1-0 deficit, as Juan Soto let what should have been a George Springer single bounce over his head, after which it also eluded A.J. Ewing, allowing Springer to dash pell mell around the bases and score. …hit about eight zillion balls on […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Bo Bichette, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, George Springer, Joey Gerber, Juan Soto, Louis Varland, Ronny Mauricio, Sean Manaea, Tyler Rogers Through five innings Friday night, the Mets were in a familiar place in Anaheim, one that seemed straightforward to write about even though I really, really didn’t want to. They were down 3-0 to the Angels and the relatively unheralded Walbert Urena, and they looked like a team in the grip of a collective nervous breakdown. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angels, Bo Bichette, Brent Suter, Brooks Raley, Chase Silseth, Christian Scott, Comebacks, David Wright, Devin Williams, Francisco Alvarez, Huascar Brazoban, Jorge Soler, Jose Fermin, Juan Soto, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Ronny Mauricio, Steve Gelbs, Walbert Urena “It’s :25 after the hour, time for our daily cooking segment. Chef, what do we have on the menu today?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bo Bichette, Brett Baty, Carson Benge, Christian Scott, Confusion, Cooking, Craig Kimbrel, David Peterson, Devin Williams, Francisco Lindor, Huascar Brazoban, Palatability, Ronny Mauricio, Tobias Myers A button at the end of one of my favorite Mad Men episodes has been circulating through my head ever since Opening Day. Don has come home to discover young Sally is still freaked out by the appearance of her new little brother Gene. Dad has to sell daughter on the notion that this infant […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Athletics, Carson Benge, Craig Kimbrel, Dicky Lovelady, Freddy Peralta, Identity, Joey Gerber, Life Expectancy, Luis Garcia, Mad Men, Recidivist Mets, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham So there had to be a few Mets fans who popped up from the couch Tuesday afternoon, with the top of the fifth inning just concluded, to hit the loo, walk the dog or perform some other mundane task. Perhaps they did so with a certain spring in their step: Huascar Brazoban had just rescued […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABS, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Carson Benge, Diamondbacks, Freddy Peralta, Huascar Brazoban, Jared Young, Jorge Polanco, Mark Vientos, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Walkoffs 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 |
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