After more than a year-and-a-half in dental denial that those random pains in my mouth were nothing that couldn’t be artfully ignored, I submitted to inevitable oral surgery this past Tuesday. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for a lark, I put myself in the hands of capable, caring professionals who made it nothing like the […]
 
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. |
 22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, PItching, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep Go figure. After somehow overcoming their own lack of hitting and boneheadedness afield to take two from the Yankees at Citi Field, the Mets made the very short trip north to resume hostilities in the Bronx with the likable but generally luckless Jeremy Hefner on the mound. So of course they leaped on David Phelps […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hope, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Yankees When it comes to last-inning lightning striking where you traditionally don’t want to be standing during a regular-season Subway Series — under a tree in the middle of the Mets bullpen — I can remember the Yankees taking it to John Franco in 1997, Armando Benitez in 2002 and 2003, Braden Looper in 2005, Billy […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Lucas Duda, Mad Men, Mariano Rivera, Subway Series We’re stuck in a season that’s either overdue to be part of a transition or is just a discouraging checkpoint amid an ongoing demolition. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) It’s been wearying, and after watching the Mets get swept by the Reds and mostly missing them nearly getting swept by the Braves, the last thing I wanted […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Hatred, Kevin Burkhardt, Yankees Lucas Duda reclaimed Utley’s Corner. Shawn Marcum finally completed Extended Spring Training. Ike Davis shredded his boarding pass for Flight .143 to Las Vegas. The Mets reaffirmed former NFL commissioner Bert Bell’s theory that on any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team. Bell was talking about professional football, wherein teams traditionally play […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bert Bell, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Shaun Marcum, Sunday Night Baseball “One night against San Antonio, we announced a crowd of eight hundred and six, and I sat there during halftime and I started counting the people in the stands, and my best guess is there were really about four hundred people at the game. And I went up to Rudy Martzke, who was then the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Caesars Club, Customer Service, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, John Franco, Suspended Games, Tickets Mets. Braves. Eight innings. Tie game. Rain. Suspended. Sound familiar? That’s because, per the Beatles, this happened once before. These very same clubs got through eight innings of no-decision baseball and called it quits in Queens, deciding to pick up where they left off later thanks to wet weather. It was just the same as it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Braves, Dale Murray, Jeff Reardon, Jeremy Hefner, Joe Torre, Lee Mazzilli, Mettle the Mule, Pete Falcone, Richie Hebner, Suspended Games Well, that was inconclusive. I would love to exult in a thrilling Mets victory or, barring that, dissect a frustrating Mets loss. Instead, let’s just all stare out the window and wait for 6:10 PM, for we have ourselves a suspended game, something I don’t know the Mets have had at home since Ed Kranepool couldn’t […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Anthony Varvaro, B.J. Upton, Cliffdwellers, Dan Uggla, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, Evan Gattis, Fireworks Night, Freddie Freeman, Golden Sombrero, Greg Burke, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Upton, Kris Medlin, LaTroy Hawkins, Lenny Randle, Lucas Duda, Oral Surgery, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Suspended Games, Team History, Terry Collins, Ties, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Wes Westrum I was gonna bitch about Ike Davis specifically or the bleak state of affairs surrounding our woeful, third-worst-in-baseball, 17-27 Mets (45-76 since July 8, 2012) generally, but I figure we’ll have Ike and the Mets to kick around for months to come. So I decided to go in a different direction. Back. Back to happier times. […] Matt Harvey wasn’t great, but he battled, to use a term from a similarly downtrodden era. The Mets’ bats were better than they’ve been, not that that’s saying much — they actually took an early lead, then came back against the Reds to tie the score. Daniel Murphy is back to demonstrating that none of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dwight Gooden, Ike Davis, Keith Hernandez, Matt Harvey |
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