 
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. |
Some random observations from the Mets’ cudgeling of Patrick Corbin and the Nationals: I’m going to get the complaining out of the way first: Dear God, what did they do to the black uniforms? Eliminating the white drop shadow was a dreadful idea; without it, the tops look murky and muddy, with the orange and blue […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Black Jerseys, Francisco Lindor, Gary Cohen, Grimace, Hope, Jake Diekman, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Joy, Nationals, Patrick Corbin, Reed Garrett, Summer Nights, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms, Wild Card The Mets ain’t too bad when they wear either their classic home pinstriped uniforms (10-7) or their road grays (9-8). They’re godawful when they wear anything else. Four losses with no wins in the City Connects. Two losses with no wins in the fade-to-blacks. And now, with the belated arrival of the white pants that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, An Appreciation, Black Jerseys, Blue Jerseys, City Connects, New York, New York Metropolitan Area, Paul Lukas, Uni Watch, Uniforms Ah, baseball. It’s a game of redemption, they say. The question sometimes is who gets redeemed last. Chris Taylor, normally reliable as a Dodger, has endured a nightmarish 2024 so far, one that left him hitting .029 going into Friday night’s game against the Mets. Things didn’t get much better for Taylor in his first AB: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Taylor, City Connect, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Mercury Mets, Redemption, Reed Garrett, Uniforms, Yoshinobu Yamamoto En route from the bottom 60% of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT — Nos. 55–44 here; Nos. 43–34 here; Nos. 33–23 here — to the just plain Top 20 (expressed without a percentage sign because they are, in fact, Nos. 20–1), I need to make a stop in consecutive years […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1994 Strike, 1995 Mets, Bill Pulsipher, Bobby Bonilla, David Segui, Dwight Gooden, Jason Isringhausen, Jose Vizcaino, Kevin McReynolds, Marlins, Mood Rings, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Patches, Rico Brogna, Turnarounds, Uniforms, World Series, Youth The good news: The Mets fixed the New York-Presbyterian patch, the one that was unreadable and looked vaguely like an ad for the Phillies, Dunkin’ Donuts or some nightmarish chimera of those two entities. It annoyed Steve Cohen, and when you’re Steve Cohen and you’re annoyed, people hop to it. The other good news: Nope, that […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Jimmy Yacabonis, Jose Butto, Josiah Gray, Luis Guillorme, Nationals, Steve Cohen, Uniforms Technically, the win in the game that commenced the National League season in New York went to Chris Bassitt. Not so technically, actually. Chris, No. 40 in the common guise of No. 42, gave the Mets six superb innings, and when a Mets starting pitcher is backed by sufficient offense, that generally means the starting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Home Opener, Jackie Robinson, Nancy Seaver, Nick Plummer, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver Statue, Travis Jankowski, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo James McCann sure has some strange at-bats. I’m not talking about the crotch readjustment before every pitch, which I really want Steve Gelbs to inquire about one day. (Did his Little League coach try to get him to stop? Has his mom and/or wife ever wished he wouldn’t?) I’m talking about the fact that the Mets’ […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Andy Beck, Braves, Charlie Morton, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Mets History, Todd Radom, Tylor Megill, Uniforms, Unlikely Events Zack Wheeler had a bad inning, not a full-game meltdown but an uneasy, Leiteresque mix of wildness and poor BABIP luck. That bad inning was enough to put the Mets in a 4-0 hole, but then Tanner Roark couldn’t get anybody out either. The Mets crept to 4-2 and then Roark became the latest opponent […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesse Winker, Jeurys Familia, Reds, Todd Frazier, Uniforms, Zack Wheeler Congratulations to Travis Taijeron for making his big-league debut after seven seasons in the minors — the last three spent at Las Vegas. With his 29th birthday looming, Taijeron had to be thinking he’d been pigeonholed as an organizational player, one whose impressive numbers at Triple-A wouldn’t interest his front office or anybody else’s beyond […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Players Weekend, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Travis Taijeron, Uniforms |
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