If four things don’t go exactly right Sunday, a team called the Giants will be done being defending champions. I’ll be sorry if/when they are eliminated from playoff contention, though mostly because a Super Bowl run is a great way to kill time en route to Spring Training. But while the halo above the New [...]
 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Football, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Odd Man Out It seems more than a trophy and some t-shirts should be at stake when you wear the title “World Champions”. I wanna see some real consequences, some real responsibilities. So, San Francisco Giants — if you are indeed championing all of us in this world, what the hell are you going to do about this [...] Blink and you’re missing it, this 2012 World Series. The Tigers certainly seem to have leaned on the fast-forward button without realizing it. Maybe it’s appropriate how swiftly the first three games have flown by as they’ve landed in Giants territory, and not just because record-level winds are forecast to lift America’s East Coast into the [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Gregor Blanco, Ryan Vogelsong, Sandy Amoros, Sergio Romo, Sid Fernandez, Tim Lincecum In Annie Hall, Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) and Annie Hall (Diane Keaton) are asked — on a split screen, by their respective therapists — to describe the frequency of their, shall we say, adult interactions with one another. “Hardly ever,” says Alvy. “Maybe three times a week.” “Constantly,” says Annie. “I’d say three times a week.” In that [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Annie Hall, Doug Fister, Madison Bumgarner, Pablo Sandoval, Prince Fielder Hindsight alert: The Mets should’ve held onto Marco Scutaro. Or they shouldn’t have let him go so soon. Certainly not for so little, which is to say for absolutely nothing. As sketchy as my recollections of Scutaro’s 75 games hitting .216 in a Mets uniform are, I do recall clearly his beginning and his end. He [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2012 Postseason, hindsight, Jim Duquette, Marco Scutaro You could’ve used the phrase, “The Tigers will meet the Giants in the World Series” in 1908, but Fred Merkle didn’t touch second, Johnny Evers pulled some shenanigans with the first baseball handy and the powers that be got suckered into calling a Giants win over the Cubs a tie, thereby compelling a makeup game [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Giants, Marco Scutaro, The Shawshank Redemption, Tigers, World Series And then there was one. Or there appears to be. With Jason Isringhausen’s reiteration of his intention to retire after putting in a yeoman year’s worth of work with the L.A. Angels — though he left the door open a crack in case “some GM is dumb enough to want to sign me” — it means [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Armando Benitez, Bruce Chen, C.J. Nitkowski, Jason Isringhausen, Last Met Standing, Long Island Ducks, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scutaro, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Team History, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton I’ve mostly followed the ongoing National League Championship Series via peripheral vision, not having fully sat down to gaze directly upon the Giants and Cardinals very much given that for their first five games I’ve mostly been doing something else, thinking about something else or literally mostly watching something else (the full power of P-I-P [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Barry Zito, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval In the jungle, the mighty jungle of Comerica Park, the Tigers sweep tonight. Feels good, doesn’t it? No matter how completely predictable this outcome had been for days; no matter the never comfortable fact that we’d rather be rooting for our team than rooting against their team; no matter that the phrase “putting them out of [...] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Elimination Day, Our Beloved Detroit Tigers, Sheadenfreude, Them So, what do these fellows… Felipe Alou …have in common? (Aside from each of them likely providing a better closer for Our Beloved Detroit Tigers than Jose Valverde?) That’s what we asked a few days ago — what’s the Met-related thread that connects ten seemingly disparate players, and [...] |
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