 
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. |
The game wasn’t lost when Edwin Diaz gag-jobbed the save, though Diaz’s slider has been MIA all season, his command was horrific again, and some of us have been sounding the alarm for some time now. The game wasn’t lost when Whit Merrifield was inexplicably given a free base after clearly swinging through a 3-1 Diaz […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cristopher Sanchez, Edwin Diaz, Horribleness, Joey Wendle, Kody Clemens, Phillies, Umpires, Whit Merrifield You know you’re in a bad stretch because your team wins and you don’t feel good — just relieved, if you’re lucky. Or exhausted, if you’re not. That was me after the Mets somehow beat the Marlins and their own demons by 5-3, a game that felt much closer than that. It was a strange, vaguely […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Jackson, Angel Hernandez, Anthony Bass, Brian Anderson, Carlos Carrasco, Javier Baez, Jesus Aguilar, Magic, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Trevor May, Umpires Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish I love J.D. Davis, from his weirdo back-construction nickname (“Jonathan Gregory Davis” doesn’t obviously suggest “J.D. Davis,” but “Jonathan Davis” plus a little repetition does) and his shrill heckling to his postgame manic episodes and general air of just being tickled to play baseball. But a thinking J.D. Davis is his own worst enemy. I’ll paint […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Eric Sogard, J.D. Davis, John Libka, Strike Zones, Taijuan Walker, Umpires, Wrigley Field Sure, if you slow down video of somebody sticking his protectively guarded elbow in the general direction of a baseball passing otherwise untouched through the strike zone, it’s gonna look bad. So don’t do that. Instead, live in the moment of Michael Conforto’s right elbow instinctively jerking ever so slightly within the flight path of Anthony […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Bass, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Don Mattingly, Good Luck, Hit By Pitch, Home Opener, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Michael Conforto, Pat Jordan, Ron Kulpa, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver, Umpires So in the end, after all the Sturming and Dranging, the Mets did nothing else. Noah Syndergaard stayed (and celebrated with a fairly hilarious bit of guerrilla Twitter video). Zack Wheeler stayed. Edwin Diaz stayed. Even Todd Frazier stayed. Prospects of whatever pedigree did not arrive. Cash considerations were not considered. Former college roommates of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Justin Wilson, Michael Conforto, Robinson Cano, Todd Frazier, Trade Deadline, Umpires, Weirdness, White Sox Before all the heroics — which we will revel in a couple of paragraphs down, I promise you — the Mets and Nationals played a rather odd baseball game. Max Scherzer pitched six innings, the last of them on fumes, throwing 109 pitches and giving up no runs. Jacob deGrom pitched six innings, the last of them […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Eaton, Adeiny Hechavarria, Bad Relief Pitching, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Met Debuts, Nationals, Rajai Davis, Ryan Blakney, Sean Doolittle, Umpires Bryce Harper arranged his own early exit. Steven Matz decided to stay a while longer this time. And Mark Carlson … well, he didn’t know if pitches were coming or going. For the Mets, Matz was the happy headline. A start after recording not even a solitary out against these same Phillies, he acquitted himself far […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Jake Arrieta, Mark Carlson, Steven Matz, Umpires Wednesday’s matinee against the Phillies was simultaneously an excellent baseball game and one about which there doesn’t seem to be a lot to say at first glance: Zack Wheeler was good, but Jake Arrieta was a little better. Wheeler gave up solo homers to Scott Kingery and Cesar Hernandez, while Arrieta surrendered one to Michael Conforto, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hector Neris, Jake Arrieta, Keon Broxton, Maikel Franco, Ted Barrett, Umpires, Zack Wheeler A day game right after a bad loss is often a good thing — right back at em, rinse that bad taste out of our mouths, and what-not. The Mets will put that baseball truism to the test in a couple of hours, and most likely give us a reason to doubt it the way […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Mickey Callaway, Ozzie Albies, Paul Sewald, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Tom Hallion, Umpires, Zack Wheeler |
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