 
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. |
Well, they didn’t lose 12-0. Nope, on Tuesday night the Mets fell behind 4-0 in the first, but then won the rest of the game 3-1, which is a roundabout way of saying they lost 5-3. Kodai Senga somehow only gave up two hits over four innings, but those two hits came in the form of […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bo Bichette, Futility, Injuries, Kodai Senga, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Reds, Ron Darling, Sean Manaea A few hours before the Knicks turned New York City into the world’s largest block party, the Mets lost a humdrum game against the Braves by the told-you-it-was-humdrum score of 3-1. To be fair, the biggest positive of the game was actually worth noting: Sean Manaea got the start and turned in six effective innings, a […] Emily and I were up in Massachusetts for our high-school reunion and so missed both the good vibes of Friday night’s game and the disappointment of Saturday’s clunker. Plus we drove up Thursday night, which was an off-day, spent by the Mets in their usual posture of wandering the West Coast. Even in a season that’s […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Carson Benge, Freddy Fermin, Jared Young, MJ Melendez, Padres, Sean Manaea What the Mets did to anger the baseball gods is an interesting question. So is what they did to MLB’s schedule makers. There they were playing in the middle of the night on the other side of the country, starting their fourth West Coast trip of what’s still a young season, and given all that I’m […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, A.J. Minter, Brett Baty, Jared Young, Late Night West Coast Games, Marcus Semien, Mariners, Sean Manaea, West Coast Trips What’s that saying about how if you watch a baseball game, you’re bound to see something you’ve seen repeatedly? Occasional outlier notwithstanding, the 2026 Mets are expert at rolling out slight variations on the same old same old. Take Friday’s game — please. Another cobbling together of à la carte options from the pitching menu: a reliever […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carson Benge, Craig Kimbrel, Dog Days in May, Jonah Tong, Juan Soto, Marlins, Sean Manaea, Tobias Myers Baseball is a funny game. That’s one word for it. But what a word — because in English, “funny” has a wide range of meanings. Amusing, yes. But also odd, peculiar, maddening, ironic, unpredictable. You might say it’s a funny word. For most of Sunday, the Mets played the kind of game they’ve played too often this […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ewing, Anthony Volpe, Bo Bichette, Carson Benge, Comebacks, David Bednar, Devin Williams, Extra Innings, Freddy Peralta, Luis Torrens, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Max Schuemann, Sarah Langs, Sean Manaea, Subway Series, Tim Hill, Tyrone Taylor, Walkoffs, Yankees It’s a baseball rule: Things get weird in Denver. Imagine you were a Rockies fan who followed the schedule and dutifully showed up at the start time indicated for each game of your team’s three-game set against the Mets. (And why wouldn’t you, after seeing the Rockies whoop up on the Mets back in Queens?) Monday? Guess […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooks Raley, Devin Williams, Freddy Peralta, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Luke Weaver, Marcus Semien, Michael Lorenzen, Rockies, Sean Manaea, Steve Gelbs, Tobias Myers David Peterson was bad and then OK and then bad again and then had a chance to give the karmic wheel another shove: Mets down two in the fourth, bases loaded, James Wood at the plate, 0-2 count. The 0-2 part was positive considering Peterson has been mashed by lefties and you could argue he shouldn’t […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Slater, David Peterson, Ludicrously Bad Baseball, Nationals, Rain, Sean Manaea “The Mets are a team bursting with all the desperation, psychosis, pain, chaos, and cruel optimism for a better future that persists though civilization’s sunset. We watch the catastrophe unfold, refusing to fully admit our doom…” Today I decided the Mets would win a ballgame. They were playing the Cubs on a Friday afternoon […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kodai Senga, Lineups, Losing Streaks, MJ Melendez, Positive Thinking, Sean Manaea, Summerlike Weather, The Wind Blowing Out, Wrigley Field Annnnd we’ve reached another milestone a lot earlier than we might have hoped: the season’s first game that I recap belatedly because I can’t stand the thought of reliving it. If you didn’t see Thursday night’s game, well, good on you for making better life choices than I did. The Mets largely didn’t hit, yet again […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blade Tidwell, David Peterson, Disappointment, Giants, Marcus Semien, Mark Vientos, Sean Manaea |
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