 
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. |
Sigh. Let’s be honest with each other. I don’t particularly want to write about today’s deplorable suckfest against the Braves, and you don’t particularly want to read about it. Because if you saw it, the afterimage of lousy pitching, vandalism afield and crummy hitting is probably still burned onto your retinas, and why on earth would you [...] We may lose and we may win And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen. If you told me I was going to three games in a four-day span in the middle of the season, I’d say, [...] So over in the Daily News, Andy Martino says the Mets could have gotten Travis d’Arnaud and Noah Syndergaard from the Blue Jays for Jonathon Niese instead of R.A. Dickey. Talk about your fascinating what-ifs. Full warning: The rest of this is going to be an unquantitative mess, red meat for a stats guys to tear apart [...] Some Sunday at the end of August — with no hurricane in sight and no hurricane having recently hit — is the time to spend an afternoon in my hometown. The birth certificate says different, but I’m a native of Long Beach, Long Island, New York. Got myself born in Brooklyn because my Long Beach-resident [...]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Home, Hurricanes, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Kelly Shoppach, Long Beach, Lucas Duda, Radio “My goal each time I go out there is to put up a quality start, to give the team a chance to win. When I walk off the mound and our team has a chance to win, that’s satisfaction for me.” Jon Niese is so uninteresting an interview that he thinks introspection is something that [...] Crazy how the baseball schedule sometimes does this: On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2012, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2007, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The circumstances surrounding the respective one-run losses that [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Billy Wagner, Charlie Manuel, Coincidental Scheduling, Jimmy Rollins, Jon Niese, Kevin Frandsen, Kyle Kendrick, Lingering Dismay, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Scott Hairston, Ty Wigginton Strange world we live in when the Mets game on what we used to call “free TV” isn’t readily available via the service millions pay for because…well, ya got me. Two corporations are in the middle of a pissing match and it’s the loyal customers who get spritzed. So what else is new? When I [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corporate Nonsense, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Mike Baxter, Radio “You should pull a Bobby O and unload on Niese. He lost that game because he is lazy, immature and uninterested in his craft.” In recognition of Tuesday night’s Mets License Plate Holder giveaway, clearly the highlight of the pancake-flat 4-2 loss with which the [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Flat, Jon Niese, License Plate Holder Night, Terry Collins “Hello?” To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era closers. All my thoughts on our modern-era closers were laced with expletives rarely deleted. Not that I don’t [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chickens, Daveotronic 5000, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Subway Series, Tim Byrdak |
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