I have to confess that after the Giants finished subjecting Hisanori Takahashi to every indignity short of drowning him in San Francisco Bay I exiled this game to radio and the occasional look-in, if only to save my own sanity. I registered the Mets’ basically cosmetic comeback, noting that it was just numerically sufficient to […]
 
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. |
Didn’t we just see this game? Yeah, it took a couple of minutes longer to lose, the Mets gave up one fewer run, and the Giants’ starter didn’t go all the way. But other than that there wasn’t a lot of difference between tonight and Thursday night: The Mets’ starter looked awesome, his teammates holding bats […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Barry Zito, Brian Wilson, Giants, Injuries, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese So the Mets lost a tight one to the Atlanta Braves tonight … and you’d assume it’s time for us all to jump off a bridge. Four games out and the Phillies came off the gurney to beat the Reds and Cliff Lee’s a Yankee Ranger and ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod. Except I can’t seem […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Cox, Braves, Chipper Jones, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Michael Tucker, R.A. Dickey, Rivalries, Team History, Yunel Escobar Believe it or not, some baseball games aren’t hell-for-leather affairs won by furious rallies, lost by closer meltdowns or somehow turning on a dread manifestation of Willie Harris. Sometimes a game walks along a tightrope for a while and finally tips one way or the other because of some little thing. And eventually you come […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Phillips, Chris Heisey, Jason Bay, Jon Niese A day after playing a stultifying, graceless mess of a game that they won, the Mets played a bizarre, quietly fascinating game that they lost. After you’ve watched enough baseball games, you find yourself wondering if the baseball cliché about seeing something you’ve never seen before should be retired. Because, really, how can that be? I’m […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Arthur Rhodes, Dusty Baker, Fernando Nieve, Jerry Meals, Joey Votto, Mike Pelfrey, Replay, Scott Rolen, Strange Events, Umpires Admit it: When Cristian Guzman came to the plate to start the bottom of the ninth, you thought, “Oh crap, here we go again.” When Guzman then wound up on first, you thought, “You have got to be kidding me.” When Ryan Zimmerman singled, making it a save opportunity, you weren’t the least bit surprised to see […] The good thing about 5-0 leads, besides the obvious Us > Them factor, is that it lets you screw up a fair amount and not have it be fatal. Which Jerry Manuel and Frankie Rodriguez promptly did, with a little help from Elmer Dessens. Elmer has somehow been fairly reliable, certainly reliable enough to be […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Fans, Fear, Francisco Rodriguez, Jerry Manuel, Luis Castillo, R.A. Dickey, Roger Bernadina, Ruben Tejada, Stupidity Last night Emily and I continued our childless week with another excellent dinner and a sunset walk along the High Line, New York City’s startlingly beautiful conversion of an ancient freight railway into a meadowland in the sky. The Mets were even obliging us by being delayed by rain down in San Juan, where they’d […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Howe, Expos, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins, Paranoia If anyone hasn’t noticed, summer is here. Oh boy, is it ever here. Emily and I headed for Citi Field with our friends Erin and Marie on the first full day of our stay-home-and-work-vacation sans child (not to worry, he’s with grandparents having a fine time), and the blast furnace that was early-morning Brooklyn let us know […] Well, we will do that, but not quite yet. (I think I just interrupted an interruption.) First, let’s go back to last night. Bases loaded, one out in the sixth, Tigers up 6-5, David Wright at the plate, and I was sure the Mets were about to at least tie the game and likely take the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hope, No-Hitters, Team History, Triple Plays, Twins |
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