The Mets would be better off continuing to lose — if they finish in the bottom third of teams record-wise, they can sign a free agent who’s received a qualifying offer without surrendering their first-round draft pick. (This is, of course, assuming the team will sign decent free agents this winter, which I’ll believe when [...]
 
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. |
Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a [...] To quote the old song, baseball has so many ways to be wicked. There are blowouts you find yourself on the short end of, making a hash of a pleasant afternoon. There are epic struggles that wind up with your side exhausted and vanquished. There are nail-biters that wind up with teeth in the quick. [...] Opening Day is, needless to say, the finest on the calendar. That’s true even if you’re a fan of a bad team, or one whose best-case scenario comes down to “can assemble some of the pieces required for a better future.” The second game of the season, though, might be even nicer than Opening Day. The [...]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  John Buck, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Terry Collins The Mets taking it to Roy Halladay is a great thing. I’m not sure that’s who they beat up Monday night, however. That couldn’t have been the Roy Halladay who gave the Mets and the rest of the National League fits in 2010 and 2011 after owning the American League for years prior. This was the [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, John Buck, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Roy Halladay 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 In lost seasons — a subject about which we’re now experts — this is the toughest time. The dreams of contention are gone, and you’ve worked through the disbelief and the anger and come round to acceptance. Yet nobody’s moved on yet. The veterans who have shown themselves to be past their shelf life are [...] Sweeping the Phillies in Philadelphia sure is fun, isn’t it? Sweeping anybody anywhere is a fine half-week’s work, but taking it to this bunch — the portion of it presently standing, at any rate — in that place? Sublime! The Phillies aren’t quite what they’ve been in the era encompassing August 2007 and everything after. That, of [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Citizens Bank Park, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, Kirk Nieuwehnhuis, Kyle Kendrick, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Rob Johnson, Shane Victorino, Sweep To understand that headline, go back a day and read my partner’s rather awesome post about Monday night’s instant Mets Classic. Monday night’s game — forever to be recalled fondly, except in the Papelbon household, as the Jordany Valdespin Game — was a tense, taut affair, about as beautiful as a baseball game can be. Confronted [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Joe Blanton, Jordany Valdespin, Miguel Batista, Pete Orr, Phillies, Ramon Ramirez I’ve been kind of busy drinking and dancing this weekend, and speaking of which… Mets fans! Mets fans! 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Brewers, Cardinals, Phillies, Sheadenfreude |
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