It’s a long way from Matty vanquishing Athletics in 1905 to MadBum mowing down Royals in 2014, though if you’ve pitched yourself into the same conversation, the gap grows short. In Game Five of the current World Series, Madison Bumgarner threw a shutout for the ages, certainly one that would have fit comfortably within the […]
 
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. 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. |
Aesthetics aside, the Mets’ extended residency in Philadelphia is going pretty well: three of four games have been captured, with one still waiting to be bagged. We’ve seen what Jonathon Niese can do for eight innings when his bullpen needs as much of a blow as he can provide it, we’ve seen how far Lucas […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1994 Mets, AJ Mass, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Juan Lagares, Mascots, Mr. Met, Nickelodeon Extreme Baseball, Phillie Phanatic Friend of FAFIF Caryn Rose has not one but two baseball books out that you should know about. There’s the e-book anthology, One Girl, One Team, One City: The Best of Metsgrrl.com, collecting a series of evocative blog posts from her site’s 2006-2012 heyday. And there’s the novel, A Whole New Ballgame, which is available […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caryn Rose, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library The headline didn’t have much on The Onion. “Farnsworth,” it reported, “rides bus without being Met.” Well, I thought, that’s too bad. It would have been nice if somebody had picked up Farnsworth, but sometimes you just have to walk home from the bus stop. Of course it didn’t require much of a double-take to realize […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Dennis D'Agostino, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Kyle Farnsworth, Sportswriting, Twitter The infrastructure of a baseball season encompasses a surfeit of components that don’t show up in the box score, including intramural dustups in March that dissolve into the murkiest of memories by May. They are as much part of the National Pastime landscape as the crack of the bat, the flight of the ball, the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Martino, Eric Campbell, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Injuries, Ira Berkow, Matt Harvey, Media Criticism, Spring Training Mike Piazza is a special instructor in Mets camp. He is among the most special of all Mets, so the title fits. Nice of him to swing by St. Lucie, just as it was good thinking on Jeff Wilpon’s part to invite him. (We will now take the keyboard on which I’m typing out of play […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Francisco Estrada, Mets Catchers, Mike Piazza, Spring Training The Sunday after the All-Star break at Citi Field was one of those afternoons when All Is As It Should Be. Matt Harvey was punishing the Phillies. A Dwight Gooden bobblehead was nestled inside my schlep bag. What we used to call DiamondVision found a moment between highlighting Harvey strikeouts to feature the de facto […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Dwight Gooden, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Legend-In-Residence, Matt Harvey Year Books (as opposed to the Official Yearbooks available at concession stands or by sending $1.50 to Shea Stadium, Flushing, NY, 11368) are designed to easily entice historically minded readers. The formula makes sense on its surface. Something happened; something else happened; another thing was going on at the same time, too. You measure your […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Matthew Silverman, Team History Two games, two runs, two 1-0 results. Pitching! Defense (of which pitching is a key component)! No hitting! Almost literally, in one case! Michael Wacha and bullpen outlasted Clayton Kershaw and bullpen in the afternoon, while Anibal Sanchez and bullpen totally edged Jon Lester and bullpen at night. It wasn’t exactly Marichal and Spahn going mano-a-mano […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Postseason, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jerry Koosman, Jerry McNertney, Matthew Callan, Moe Berg It’s summer. Basketball’s done. Hockey’s endless rounds of playoffs have ceased. Football training camps have not yet stirred. Baseball rules the land. And all is well. Proof? Here are some good things for us all to appreciate: 1) Your 2013 New York Mets, even with Shaun Marcum. Marcum hadn’t been great before tonight, but he hadn’t been 0-9 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Shaun Marcum, The Happiest Recap (The Book) |
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