The World Series contest that’s been instantly enshrined in history for Albert Pujols detonating three tons of TNT into the Arlington night (and then graciously sticking around to chat about it afterwards) was really decided before the King completely got his groove back. Those three homers that defined Game Three, every one of them a [...]
 
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. |
I admire the 2011 World Series thus far, which is a nice way of saying I have yet to be fully engaged by it. After the slam-bang blowouts that ended the LCSes, it was predicted/feared that the St. Louis and Texas lineups would lay waste to each other’s starting pitching and that the games would [...]  1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2011 Postseason, Albert Pujols, Jason Isringhausen, Jason Motte, Media In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling Except for my standard-issue human blood and my mother’s accusations that I harbored “Bolshevik” sympathies as a nine-year-old McGovernite, you won’t find a drop of red in me. No Cardinal red, certainly. Ptui! on the 1985 Cardinals. Ptui! on the 1987 Cardinals. Ptui! on the Best Fans In Baseball. A Niagara Falls of loogies on [...] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Bad Contracts, Cardinals, Homegrown Mets, Johan Santana Part 1: Friday Night Frights Went to see the Mets play ball. Lovely evening, and great company in my pals Wayne and Amanda, the latter a visitor and, horrible to say, a Yankee fan. (She was also a model guest — I didn’t once hear the number 27, an invocation of rings or a sentence ended [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Albert Pujols, Blogging, Carlos Beltran, Chip Hale, Citi Field, Dave Racaniello, David Wright, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Randy Niemann, Raul Valdes, Reporters Fourteen out of fifteen isn’t bad, and, considering from how far back we traveled to get as far as we did, 8-7 in 13 isn’t inexcusable. But it still sucks to lose that way. Or lose at all. I hadn’t forgotten the feeling, no matter how unusual it had become to experience in 2010. The Streak — the [...] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Anthony Young, Blogging, Ed Kranepool, Eddie Murray, Ends of All Good Things, Ike Davis, Jaime Garcia, Johan Santana, Mike Hessman, Overmanaging, Ryan Thompson, Tony La Russa, Winning Streak Tim McCarver called it a classic. The Baseball Tonight crawl called it a classic. Yet don’t mistake long for excellent. That was not a classic. It was certifiably long, the final result was immensely preferable to the alternative, and there were certainly aspects of it like and even treasure, but that 20-inning Mets win we [...] 53 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Inning Game, Absurdity, Albert Pujols, Alex Cora, Artie Ziff, C.B. Bucknor, Ed Sudol, Felipe Lopez, Frankie Rodriguez, Futility, Galen Cisco, Hank Webb, Jeff Francoeur, Joe Mather, Johan Santana, Jose Oquendo, Jose Reyes, Kyle Lohse, Les Rohr, Luis Castillo, Marathon, Mike Pelfrey, Ralph Wiggum, Raul Valdes, Ron Darling, Ryan Ludwick, Tim McCarver, Tom Gorman, Tony LaRussa, Yadier Molina |
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