 
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. |
Defiance isn’t really in our wheelhouse as Mets fans. Hope? Sure. The sunny version sometimes, though generally that’s only seen in the abstract. Stubborn, scared, trampled but still inexhaustible hope? Now we’re talking — whenever Tug McGraw‘s famous YA GOTTA BELIEVE is invoked, I hear not just the hope but also the desperation — the burden […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Booing, Brandon Sproat, Brooks Raley, Chris Devenski, Defensive Runs NOT Saved, Dylan Crews, Huascar Brazoban, Jose Siri, M. Donald Grant, Nationals, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tug McGraw, Tyler Rogers, Tyrone Taylor, Wild Card 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 “Until you’ve been beside a man,” Detroit’s own Bob Seger wailed mournfully, “you don’t know what he wants.” And until you have a high-profile reliever on your team, you don’t know what he is. For the Cardinals, Ryan Helsley was lights out. For the Mets, he turns them off on his own team. Had Helsley done […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arrested Development, Bob Seger, Capable, Clay Holmes, Jose Castillo, Likable, Ordinary, Ryan Helsley, Special Before the Labor Day matinee against the Tigers, a friend asked me an alarming question: Who are the Mets’ starters for a playoff series? Kodai Senga? He’s been awful since returning from injury and Carlos Mendoza didn’t exactly offer a ringing, unambiguous vote of confidence about him remaining in the rotation. David Peterson? Bad start has […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Comerica Park, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Juan Soto, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Sean Manaea, Starting Pitching, Surviving Our Bullpen, Tigers On the day Jonah Tong was born — Thursday, June 19, 2003 — the Mets lost 5-1 to the Marlins at Soilmaster Stadium. Mike Bacsik gave up an early three-run homer to Mike Lowell, things got worse in the fifth, and a dreary game eventually expired. I’m sure I was watching and also glad I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Eury Perez, Jason Phillips, Javier Sanoja, Joey Wiemer, Jonah Tong, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Marlins, Mike Glavine, Mike Pelfrey, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Ryan Helsley, Ryne Stanek, Tim Lincecum, Tyler Zuber, Unicorn Scores, Vance Wilson “Show a little faith! There’s magic in the night!” That’s one of Bruce Springsteen’s best-known exhortations, a commandment for wavering lovers, teetering dreamers and yes, fans of oddly underwhelming baseball fans. But until Tuesday night, it had largely fallen flat where the 2025 Mets were concerned. Until Tuesday night, but not forever. Game two of the seven-game, two-city […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Bryce Harper, Carlos Mendoza, Edwin Diaz, Gregory Soto, Harrison Bader, Huascar Brazoban, Jesus Luzardo, Jhoan Duran, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Orion Kerkering, Parabolic Microphones, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Ryan Helsley, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Willie Traynor I remembered that the Mets had taken part in the Little League Classic before, though in my recollection they’d been walloped by the Phillies, which is further evidence that this woeful baseball summer has been bad for my mental health: In fact, back in 2018 it was the Mets who did the walloping. Maybe it was […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Alvarez, Little League Classic, Mariners, Mark Vientos, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers Different night, same three-legged stool of suck. Kodai Senga worked into the sixth, which is the Mets starting pitcher equivalent of a complete game these days. Into the sixth, but not out of it — let’s not go crazy, folks. Was that better than Senga has been? Yes. Was that better than Mets starters in general […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Braves, Kodai Senga, Raisel Iglesias, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers 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 In this emotionally transactional season, when we seem to exchange our adoration for victories and withhold our affection when dealt defeats, the Mets have gotten to transacting in earnest. With the Thursday 6 PM trade deadline approaching, they acquired two high-profile relievers before the sun set on Wednesday. Admittedly, at no time amid San Diego’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, Bullpen Upgrade, Drew Gilbert, Jesus Baez, Jose Butto, Ryan Helsley, Trade Deadline, Tyler Rogers |
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