 
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. |
“Trade or release everybody!” is an understandable if impulsive answer to the question, “What the hell should the Mets do next, now that they’ve been swept at home by the Colorado Rockies, having shown no more than scant traces of life in losing their Sunday doubleheader?” Within reason, it may also be the correct one. The Mets […]  20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2026 Mets, Austin Slater, Bill Veeck, Carl Edwards Jr., Carson Benge, Juan Soto, Ludicrously Bad Baseball, Nolan McLean, Tommy Pham, Trade or Release Almost Everybody Not having grown up a Yankees fan, I always thought that as a broadcaster, well, Phil Rizzuto sure was a Yankee legend. But Rizzuto had a bit of scorekeeping shorthand that I always loved for its combination of honesty and puckishness: WW, which stood for “Wasn’t Watching.” I thought of the Scooter in the bottom of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Joey Gerber, Late Night West Coast Games, Phil Rizzuto, Tommy Pham 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 Horrible weather, horrible offseason, horrible everything. You know what might put some pep in our collective step? Looking back at guys who made their Mets debuts during the horrible 2023 season! Some of these guys have already vanished from memory; others we merely wish we could unremember. Like I said, horrible. But they matriculated in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Abraham Almonte, Adam Kolarek, Anthony Kay, Baseball Cards, Brooks Raley, Danny Mendick, David Robertson, Dennis Santana, Denyi Reyes, DJ Stewart, Dominic Leone, Edwin Uceta, Gary Sanchez, Grant Hartwig, Jeff Brigham, Jimmy Yacabonis, John Curtiss, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Quintana, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, Phil Bickford, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Sam Coonrod, T.J. McFarland, The Holy Books, Tim Locastro, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller, Vinny Nittoli, Zach Muckenhirn Of all the key offseason hires approved by Steve Cohen, I haven’t seen the name Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong appointed as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning, or whatever title would imply a person has been brought in to help the Mets figure out what to do next. No wonder she’s not in Flushing, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, David Robertson, Dido, Drew Gilbert, Justin Verlander, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Nikon Camera Mets Player of the Year, Quick Draw McGraw, Ryan Clifford, Sensible Surrender, Sometimes You Don’t Gotta Believe, South Park, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham I watched the victorious Jets quarterback stand before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, Diamondbacks, Drew Smith, Football, Highs, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Lows, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott Some days can’t possibly be summed up by one post. So consider this one just the start of a conversation that kicks off tonight but will go on in some form for years. The Mets traded pretty much everybody. Justin Verlander went back to the Astros, where — as I semi-seriously predicted — he’ll now face […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Eppler, Dominic Leone, Embarrassment, Francisco Alvarez, Josh Walker, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Rafael Ortega, Royals, Steve Cohen, Tommy Pham, Trade Deadline, Trades The Earth keeps going around the sun; the Mets keep going in circles. On Sunday night they dropped the rubber game of their series with the Red Sox in numbingly familiar fashion: no hitting, bad pitching, bad defense. To which we might add that they looked torpid and useless, trudging around morosely while being dismantled by […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Brooks Raley, Carlos Carrasco, David Robertson, Joely Rodriguez, Justin Verlander, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Red Sox, Tommy Pham If you were beginning to worry that the All-Star break would impede the Mets’ gathering momentum for a push toward playoff contention, rest easy this week. There is no momentum. There will be no playoff contention. All provisional prognostication is subject to change with the emergence of the next six-game winning streak, but by the time […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Flat as a Pancake, Hit By Pitch, Joe Musgrove, Kodai Senga, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham It took ten innings, but the Mets made the Padres look like the Mets while preventing the Padres from making the Mets look like the Padres. This is to say the East Coast version of the Padres beat the West Coast version of the Mets, 7-5, in extras. If I wasn’t following one of these teams […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diego Segui, Football, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Must Wins, Padres, Repus Bowl, Soap Opera Names, Tommy Pham |
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