Never mind the cliché about a team beset by injuries resembling a M*A*S*H unit. The Mets of the moment — with 16 players on their injured list — are closer to a M*A*S*H episode. A specific M*A*S*H episode in my mind, the one titled “Carry On, Hawkeye,” from the second season of the series. In […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Drury, Dae-Sung Koo, Ed Sudol, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jake Hager, Johneshwy Fargas, Khalil Lee, M*A*S*H, Marcus Stroman, Marlins, Night Clubs, Recidivist Mets, Sugar Kings, The Pinch-Running Files, Umpiring, Wilfredo Tovar It may be too much to ask the Mets to play nine perfectly appetizing innings, so be grateful for the half-innings you don’t want to send back to the kitchen as underdone or overcooked. On Saturday, you could dine out on a three-course meal of them. The Top of the 1st — Baserunners! Hits! Breaks! RUNS! […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew McCutchen, Donnie Stevenson, Edwin Diaz, M*A*S*H, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Pulp Fiction, Taijuan Walker, Umpiring, Zack Wheeler So if Jason Vargas pitches well — and I mean “pitches well,” without any ironic amplification, subtle disparagement or other snobby little digs — and the Mets lose anyway, what sound does a Met fan make at 1 in the morning? If you’re me, it’s a long, drawn-out sigh. Vargas pitched well. Hyun-Jin Ryu pitched better. Ryu […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hyun-Jin Ryu, J.D. Davis, Jason Vargas, Pete Alonso, Umpiring Fine with me if you dug into a basketful of chocolate bunnies, creme eggs and jelly beans on Sunday. Or macaroons, mandel cuts and leftover sponge cake. Whatever kind of peep you fancy yourself, I do hope you didn’t confine yourself to only sweets and treats. No […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Ochoa, Carl Everett, Curtis Granderson, Dakota Hudson, Dexter Fowler, Easter, Frank Thomas, Futility, Marv Throneberry, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Passover, Pete Alonso, Pitchers Hitting, Rene Rivera, Robinson Cano, Solo Home Runs, Team History, Todd Hundley, Umpiring, Wilmer Flores Brewers 2 Mets 1. Not the outcome of choice in these parts, but a reassuring baseball score for a sunny Thursday afternoon. If you’re gonna lose by a run…well don’t, but if you have to, do it neatly, quickly and move on. Two-one without extra innings implies satisfying efficiency. Yet this game lingered too long to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Brewers, Chase Anderson, Terry Collins, Time, Two-One Games, Umpiring, Wayward Bat Boys, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Win or lose, the 2017 Mets are exhausting. They didn’t win tonight — Matt Harvey‘s poor location, lousy relief, Freddie Freeman‘s ubiquitous bat and annoyingly good baseball played by Ender Inciarte, Brandon Phillips and Nick Markakis took care of that — but they made it interesting, with Jay Bruce‘s grand slam making it 9-7. Dare I […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Freddie Freeman, Jay Bruce, Larry Vanover, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Replay, Umpiring The forces of good were temporarily foiled Thursday night in St. Louis by Yadier Molina and dunderheaded officiating. Like havoc wreaked by rain on the late-September schedule, hardy perennials are hard to avoid. The Cardinals and Reds were locked in a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the ninth. The Cards had Matt Carpenter on first […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Elimination Day, Giants, Rain, Sam Rice, Sheadenfreude, Ties, Umpiring, Video Review, Yadier Molina Welp, the little black cloud is back. This was a 2014 Mets game concocted from all-too-familiar ingredients: The recipe calls for mostly good starting pitching, a pretty good bullpen, no offense, some fundamentally dumb baseball, a dash of tragedy and a pinch of farce. Stir for nearly four hours and you get an aggravating, annoying loss. I said […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Edgin, Josh Harrison, Ruben Tejada, Umpiring, Vic Black Get out your microscopes, because we’re going to examine a very small silver lining. For much of the spring, as horrific loss followed horrific loss, I advised you to do something else with your summer, even as I knew I wouldn’t take my own advice. I didn’t and I’m glad I didn’t, because the Mets are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Fairchild, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Umpiring It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but given a punchless Mets lineup with too many dudes looking up at the Mendoza Line and David Wright […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brian Knight, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Umpiring |
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