Angel Hernandez, a master of ruining endings of baseball games, was ready to roll early Sunday afternoon, out to ruin a baseball game that had barely begun. It took him all of five pitches to pull a Sparky Lyle by dropping trou and planting his bare bottom on the Mets-Marlins finale birthday cake. Brandon Nimmo, […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Hernandez, Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Escobar, Extra Bases, Mariners, Ray Knight, Sparky Lyle, Taijuan Walker, Tomas Nido, Winning Series Pete Alonso just swung by to remind us that not every Met ending that oughta be happy winds up that way, nor do even the most promising of post-1986 Mets teams always play baseball like it oughta be. Or maybe Pete Alonso just swung — again. Last we saw him, he couldn’t help himself. It was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Carlos Carrasco, Catchers, Chasen Shreve, Colin Holderman, Coping, Curried Chicken, Didn’t Have It, Francisco Lindor, Goodfellas, Injures, J.B. Smoove, James McCann, Jerry DiPoto, Mariners, More Like It, One-Run Defeats, Patrick Mazeika, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Triples, Tylor Megill What a strange game. The Mets and Mariners — those foes from so many past epics — met again under bottom-of-the-aquarium conditions, getting started late because of rain and squinting their way through the final innings because of fog. The meteorological strangeness was matched by plenty of the on-the-field variety, with Chris Bassitt looking frustrated with […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Munoz, Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Edwin Diaz, George Kirby, Jesse Winker, Mariners, Patrick Mazeika The Mets have now played the Mariners 16 times in their history, but such a matchup will always feel a bit like a videogame showdown with a weird little cousin. “You want to be the Mariners? C’mon, really? It’s the AL West — I don’t know any of those names. Hell, half of them look […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Marco Gonzales, Mariners, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred A few impressions from a late night in Seattle absorbed via the television in New York before I drifted off to a dreamland in which the Mets don’t linger in distant American League cities where the designated hitter is de rigueur. • The DH bites. We’ve been through this before. We’ll be through it again. I’m […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | AJ Ramos, Daruma of Great Neck, Designated Hitter, Interleague Play, Lucas Duda, Mariners, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Rafael Montero, Toasted Grasshoppers You know things are strange when Greg Prince violates a baseball taboo. The email arrived about midway through Bartolo Colon‘s attempt at retiring 27 straight Seattle Mariners, with the subject line HERESY. “I’m not feeling more than minimally emotionally invested in Bartolo Colon’s particular effort today,” Greg wrote to me. He didn’t spell out what that effort was, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Johan Santana, Mariners, No-Hit Bids, No-Hitters, Perfect Game, Ruben Tejada, Superstition, Taijuan Walker With the seventh pick in the first round of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, the New York Mets selected…some kid. I wish him well. I wish to see him on the Mets before too long. Until then, Matt Harvey — RHP, UNC — is just a name to me, no more guaranteed of success than […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Atlantic City, Bill Caudill, Chris Donnels, Darryl Strawberry, Delino DeShields Jr., Draft, Expos, Howie Rose, Ken Griffey Jr., Mariners, Matt Harvey, Never Mets, Randy Johnson, Retirement, Shawn Abner, The Simpsons, The Waltons |
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