Aaron Heilman has been thwarted in his latest attempt to make a starting rotation and will pitch in relief for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Adam Wainwright is officially on the 60-Day Disabled List. Oliver Perez is feeling his way through a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. Jeff Suppan has been released by the San […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Aaron Heilman, Adam Wainwright, Anniversaries, Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Gratitude, Jeff Suppan, Milestones, Oliver Perez, Regret, Team History, Yadier Molina To paraphrase an old joke, when Terry Collins is on the phone, Terry Collins is ON the phone. That is to say he’s “on,” I’m guessing, whether there’s a phone line open or not. The Mets were kind enough to conduct another blogger conference call this evening, this time with the Mets’ manager as our subject […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Brad Emaus, Hope, Pedro Beato, Terry Collins, Willie Harris Luis Hernandez’s imminent professional fate doesn’t appear to include a spot on the Mets’ 25-man roster. The largely blank slate that is Brad Emaus has been all but coronated our starting second baseman (good luck, kid; don’t turn into Don Bosch if you can help it) and Chin-lung Huuuuuuu! can be rightly identified as the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chico Walker, Chris Jelic, High Note Home Runs, Luis Hernandez, Mike Cubbage, Team History, Todd Pratt, Todd Zeile The Times’ baseball preview brought along a column by George Vecsey that couldn’t have been better calibrated to infuriate Mets fans. Vecsey writes that we are conditioned to accept a magical season every generation or so, but know nothing of the sort is in the cards for 2011. “Absolutely not this year,” as he adds for […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, George Vecsey, Hope, Media Criticism, Sandy Alderson I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw Fall was when the leaves fell and you had to go back to school. Was on another Mets-arranged blogger conference call with Sandy Alderson tonight. Of course those are splendid opportunities for the likes of we who write about the Mets yet traditionally haven’t been considered Mets writers. Downside is you’re on the phone with 15, 20 other bloggers. They’re not downers by any means — to the contrary, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Port St. Lucie, Sandy Alderson, Spring Training In addition to falling into the second base job (because legally you can’t just place an orange traffic cone between short and first), Brad Emaus seems to be the frontrunner for an award that is probably no more familiar to you than, well, Brad Emaus. He certainly qualifies as the favorite, which speaks less for […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Young, Brad Emaus, Charlie Puleo, Dae-Sung Koo, Darren Reed, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Simons, Edgardo Alfonzo, Garth Brooks, Ike Davis, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, John Milner, Johnny Murphy, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Kelvin Chapman, Kevin Elster, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Lucas Duda, Mario Ramirez, Masato Yoshii, Melvin Mora, Mike Bruhert, Mike Draper, Orber Moreno, Pedro Beato, Pete Schourek, Roger McDowell, Ron Darling, Ron Gardenhire, Steve Bieser, Team History, Tim Leary, Tsuyoshi Shinjo The idea that there can be losses that are also moral victories is a trap sentimental sports fans need to avoid: Nobody gets an extra win because they had an exceptional year in the LMV column. But chiefly in March, there is such a thing as a clarifying loss. You know what I mean: You hear […] Even though Andy Martino asserts we’re racist, Mike Vaccaro implies we’re idiots and a market research company concludes we’re more fickle than Philadelphians, I still believe in us. I maintain bedrock faith in the faith of the Mets fan. I have a lifetime of experience as a Mets fan among Mets fans to back me […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Avenue Annual, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Maple Street Mets Annual, Matthew Silverman |
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