One of the rites of Spring is being reminded all in baseball is not as it sounds. For example, sometimes you hear about pitchers going through “dead arm,” and your instinct is to freak out because dead surely sounds like an irreversible condition. But then you’re told, no, “dead arm” is a temporary malady, don’t […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Laffey, Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bill Denehy, Bill Latham, Bob L. Miller, Carlos Carrasco, Craig Swan, Dave Mlicki, David Cone, David Peterson, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Elbow Soreness, Fifth Starters, Hank Webb, Harry Parker, Jason Vargas, Mark Bomback, Mark Clark, Nolan Ryan, Ray Sadecki, Rick Reed, Team History, Terry Leach Every day of Improv Season 2020 is another moment to cock your head, say “huh” and try and figure things out. Most of that’s been a little anxious. I know Citi Field well enough that just seeing its geometry was enough for my sense of familiarity to kick in and make me think, “I can work […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Debuts, Dillon Gee, Fenway Park, Pandemics, Red Sox You don’t want to have to win a game by using five relievers to cover 8.2 innings, but you surely don’t want to lose a game under those circumstances. They were unavoidable Wednesday night once Bartolo Colon was forced to leave in deference to a liner off his right thumb from Royals leadoff hitter Whit […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Bullpen, Dilemmas, Dillon Gee, Erik Goeddel, Field Of Dreams, Hansel Robles, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Royals And then I fell in love Then one day And when I didn’t 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Champions, Dillon Gee, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Peggy Lee, Rico Brogna, Stephen Stills, Tom Seaver This, too, was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been subconsciously groping for, the game embedded in our DNA. This was the game that signaled perhaps prosperity is neither illusory nor fleeting. This was the game that allowed us to quit looking over our shoulders to see if the worst was gaining […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Darrell Ceciliani, Dave Lemanczyk, Dillon Gee, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mike Foltynewicz, Paul Foytack, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Dillon Gee didn’t look so hot, but neither did Craig Kimbrel, and Craig Kimbrel is a big deal. Plus Kimbrel only pitches ninth innings, usually. Gee pitches firsts, seconds, maybe a couple more… Usually Gee pitches fifths and then some. Usually he’s in a five-man rotation. Usuallys are hard to gauge some nights. Kimbrel, I hear, hasn’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Dillon Gee, Hideo Nomo, Lucas Duda, One-Third of a Season, Six-Man Rotations, Teases When you’re sending your ace of aces out to face the dregs of the dregs, you can’t help but have high hopes…high in the sky apple pie hopes. In this corner, we had the undefeated Matt Harvey, author of the best day (sometimes two days) of every week. In the other corner, there sat the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2002 Mets, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dillon Gee, Freddie Galvis, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jonathan Papelbon, Matt Harvey, Mets Fan Instinct, Monty Python, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Ryan Howard Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to happen. It usually does — 24 separate occasions over the past 19 seasons are evidence that you weren’t concocting worst-case scenarios […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Hockey, Jarret Cosart, Juan Lagares, Marlins, WHOA! Wins I’ve been thinking of this one game. I was in Connecticut. The Mets were in Atlanta. They were playing the Braves on a Saturday night and Dillon Gee wasn’t very good. Since that game I’ve driven back to New York, worked my butt off for three days and nights, flown to California where I spent three days at a Star […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, Curtis Granderson, Dillon Gee, Fans, Juan Lagares, Winning Streaks In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores |
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