Wednesday night’s Mets game was an exercise in shifting narratives: That contest with the Braves looked like it was going to be a Taut But Ultimately Depressing Loss, morphed thanks to Steven Matz and J.D. Davis into an Inspiring Minimalist Comeback Win, morphed again thanks to Seth Lugo and Mickey Callaway into a This One’s […]
 
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. |
 24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Braves, Counterintuitive Wins, Drew Gagnon, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Ronald Acuna Jr., Steve Finley, Storytelling, Wilson Ramos The Mets don’t lead the league in much, but they’re at least a wild-card contender in keeping us guessing, having concluded their road trip with a Rorschach record of 5-5. That’s five to go in the They Rebounded From Getting Blitzed and Got Themselves Together on the Road So There’s Hope column (you may label this one differently, of course), […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jay Bruce, JT Riddle, Matt Reynolds, Seth Lugo, Storytelling, T.J. Rivera Despite what you might think, and what’s popularly held to be our birthright, the Mets do not actually spend every day under a little black cloud. It’s always useful to think of a conflict from the other guy’s perspective — besides making you a better person, you might learn something. So consider Saturday’s game from the […] 37 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jeurys Familia, Michael Conforto, Nationals, Storytelling, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler When the 2016 Mets trudged home to Citi Field earlier this week, it sure looked like they’d ceded the divisional race on June 29, dragged down by injuries, bad luck, lack of clutchness and Daniel Murphy, to name but a few maladies. Later today, somehow, they’ll trust a four-game sweep of the big bad Chicago Cubs […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Jake Arrieta, Storytelling, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud Clayton Kershaw shutting down the Mets on almost no hits…where have we seen that before? Almost everywhere we’ve run into him, it seems, save for one buoyant October night, which attests to fine Met timing, and even then we barely touched his fresh-made turkey on nine-grain wheat with jalapeños, mustard and a little bit of […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Again, Clayton Kershaw, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Sandy Koufax, Storytelling, Vin Scully Thanks to a fairly brutal stretch in the life of a freelance writer, I’d fallen asleep before the last out of every World Series game so far. If I’m fated to only stay awake for one, at least I picked the right one. If you like your baseball spine-tingling, heart-stopping and cliche-channeling, Game 6 was a game […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Rangers, Storytelling, Tony La Russa, World Series Dear brethren in Atlanta and Boston, We’ve been where you are. We know how you feel. Braves fans, on Aug. 25 your team led the Giants by 9 1/2 and were given 99.2% odds of making the playoffs. Sox fans, on Sept. 3 you were up by nine games on the Rays, with playoff odds of 99.6%. […] In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling OK, actually half-bad is exactly what we are. But compared to what we were not so long ago…. It turns out nothing can stop Dillon Gee except thunder, lightning, lunatic gales and cruel but sensible precautions related to long rain delays and surgically repaired labrums. Our favorite advanced-stats conundrum mowed down the Braves for four innings, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Dillon Gee, Fans, Rain Delays, Stats, Storytelling |
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