A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. [...]
 
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. |
It’s good to know, in some perverse way, that with only two weeks remaining in the flat-out, most embarrassing second half the Mets have ever matriculated down the field, a given Mets loss can still rankle me enough to make me kick a plastic beer cup until it makes a thwack almost as loud as [...]  38 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1987 Mets, 1989 Mets, Barry Lyons, David Wright, Don Aase, Ed Kranepool, Josh Edgin, Kelly Downs, Matt Harvey, Ryan Howard, Willie Randolph Annie, I’ve got a lot of time to hear your theories, and I want to hear every damn one of them. But now I’m tired, and I don’t want to think about baseball and I don’t want to think about quantum physics. I don’t want to think about nothing. I just want to be. — [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Johnson, David Wright, Fans, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Edgin, Matt Harvey, R.A. Dickey Once in a while, particularly in a season that’s wandered dutifully into its gone-to-hell portion, the Mets will play a game that, like a piece of black, volcanic glass in Andy Dufresne’s favorite Maine hayfield, has no earthly business on their ledger. It will be tense, it will be tight, it will be gripping…even if [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jay Bruce, Josh Edgin, Mat Latos, Scoreless Games, The Shawshank Redemption Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson When it was all finally over and the Mets convened at the mound for a rather muted celebration, Manny Acosta kind of rolled his eyes up at the sky and spread his hands in equal parts thanks and exasperation. It was an entirely appropriate response to his own pitching — in the 10th he walked [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin, Manny Acosta, Mike Baxter, Scott Hairston As it turned out, Matt Harvey didn’t need our prayers. He was superb, fanning a Seaveresque 11 over 5 1/3 innings, surrendering no runs and even hitting for half of the cycle. Then — and this was perhaps even more surprising — the bullpen didn’t blow it. Fireplug reliever Josh Edgin, a fellow 2010 first-round pick, [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Hope, Josh Edgin, Matt Harvey, Rookies Thank you for your interest in joining the Chipper Jones Metropolitan Victim Club. Please fill out the attached application fully, and Mr. Jones’s selection committee will meet at home plate to inform you of your membership status in a timely manner. ————– NAME: Josh Edgin Let's Go Mets indeed. Technically, you don’t gotta believe if you can’t find a reason to believe. In September 1973, ground zero for unbridled faith in the face of daunting odds, it didn’t require blind faith to believe. The Mets were close enough to dream and hot enough to make up gobs of ground in [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Homegrown Mets, Johnny Murphy, Josh Edgin, Mets Opening Day, Stoked |
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