I love Tim Lincecum, I really do. I love that perfect motion of his — my description of it last year was “the equation that solves a knotty physics problem, and leaves you smiling at the elegance and beauty of the answer,” which I’m not going to improve on. I love his God-given talents, […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Beltran, Giants, Ike Davis, No-Hitters, Tim Lincecum, Willie Harris I noticed the news around 9:45 p.m. — President Obama would address the nation at 10:30 p.m. Uh-oh, I thought, then kept checking in on the Twitter parlor game of predicting what that news would be. The smart money was on Libya, which seemed logical — some escalation of the campaign against the stubbornly resistant […] That was going through my head as the Mets trudged to the plate for the top of the ninth: Gee, we’d have been beaten less badly if Terry Collins had run up the white flag a while back. The fact that Ike Davis and Jason Pridie held down the pig and rubbed some home-run lipstick […] A sometimes irritating, sometimes amusing side effect of chronicling games as a blogger is the weird double vision you develop as events take their course. By the middle innings you find yourself wondering what your theme is — or wondering if this is one of those ho-hum games where you’re going to have to invent […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Howie Rose, Marvin Hudson, Nationals, Terry Collins, Umpires If I’d asked you on Wednesday night if you were disappointed to think about a Mets-free Monday, you’d have said that wasn’t funny. We were 5-13, still reeling from watching rainouts or doubleheader losses, and the idea of meaningful games in May had become a sour joke. Four days later, well, whaddya know? That day off […] Well, at least the Mets showed me something tonight. After Tuesday night’s slow-motion slide down the avalanche, I could barely work up indignation over the actual game — that was saved for my fears about what might be behind some curiously hasty decision-making. The Mets were bland and bad and I was uncomfortably close to numb […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Awfulness, Dallas Green, Haplessness, Horribleness, Ineptitude, Jose Reyes, Patheticness, Stupidity And like the song said, what it is ain’t exactly clear. But whatever it is, I know I don’t like it. I’m not referring to the Mets stumbling around the field, approaching at-bats like puppies lunging for a chew toy, and otherwise making the Astros look like world-beaters in every way possible. Though I didn’t like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, Fear, Impatience, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons Actually the Mets aren’t 4-70. They’re 4-7, which is considerably different — smack dab in the middle of “small sample size” territory, within the bounds of which no wise person draws conclusions. And even if you can’t resist the temptation, a bit of further, mostly non-quantified reflection should be enough to coax you off the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Perspective, Rockies, Uniforms, Willie Harris Mike Pelfrey’s ERA is 15.63. He’ll get another start tomorrow. And another one four days after that. And so on for a reasonable distance into the future. Blaine Boyer’s ERA is 10.80. He threw 119 pitches this year. His Mets career is presumably over: He was designated for assignment after yesterday’s debacle, a 3-2 Mets lead […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Booing, Chris Young, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Jason Marquis Even for my baseball-obsessed family, it was a wall-to-wall day. Saturday began with the annual Little League Parade, an exercise in genial chaos in which a rainbow of teams assemble on a block of 1st Street whose residents I imagine make sure to be out of town this particular weekend, then march down 7th Avenue to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn, Carlos Beltran, Chris Capuano, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins |
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