The baseball rhythms were back Friday night at 10:10, albeit uncomfortably time-shifted. You’d have preferred them back at 7:10 PM. You’d have preferred them back at 7:10 PM the previous Monday, actually. Who wanted a pause when the cause was so glorious, when the momentum was so momentous? Who wanted the Mets to pack up [...]
 
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. |
Can we talk about the Angels? I’ll grant you that the entire AL West is essentially uncharted on my personal baseball map, but the Angels are the true terra incognita. This shouldn’t be — the Angels are essentially us, a mere year older thanks to the AL pushing to the head of the expansion line. But [...]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Pujols, Angel Stadium, Angels, Extra Innings, Jeurys Familia, Kyle Farnsworth, Mike Trout, Scott Boras, West Coast Trips Nine innings? Three hours and twenty-three minutes? What a gyp! What kind of Mets game is that in the middle of the night? Surely it was only the opener of a twidawn doubleheader. Surely they had to replay the sixth to the thirteenth from the night before in deference to Bruce Bochy attempting to make [...] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Marathons, Marlon Byrd, Rosemary Woods, Shaun Marcum, Team History, Terry Collins, West Coast Trips The more you watch baseball and the more you mature as a person, the less you are inclined to blithely dismiss the people who play the game in a glib, pejorative fashion. For example, it would have been shallow and unfair of me to have thought, in 2011, “My god, Chris Capuano and Chris Young [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Perceptions, West Coast Trips Greg Gibson is bad. That’s all there is to it. Clayton Kershaw is spectacular. That, too, is all there is to it. If the Dodgers wanted to beat the Mets every game ever, they’d start Hong Chih-Kuo each time and never take him out. The Mets can’t afford to play shoddy defense. Nobody can, obviously, but there’s a [...] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Dillon Gee, Dodgers, Nick Evans, Umpiring, West Coast Trips “But I don’t believe it, because come this Sunday you’re going to be doing what you always do. You’re going to be sitting right in this chair drinking beer, watching TV and swearing at Joe Namath.” FACT: Mike Pelfrey sucks, especially on the road. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay, Mike Pelfrey, Not Sucking, West Coast Trips Playing the Yankees is one of my least favorite parts of the season. The same goes for West Coast trips. Yet over a stretch of 30 hours or so, both turned out pretty nicely. I mostly missed the Mets’ marvelous, off-the-deck mauling of Mariano Rivera, as I was away with friends in Vermont in a place where [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Jason Bay, Rubby De La Rosa, West Coast Trips |
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