A couple of times in my life, I’ve witnessed someone forget to engage the parking brake while on a slight incline. (OK, once I was that person.) The car doesn’t move all that swiftly at first on its journey to where it’s not supposed to be, but its momentum builds steadily and pretty soon the slow-motion disaster has become inevitable, […]
 
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. |
“Rock bottom” gets thrown around a lot in sports, and is invoked as a good thing. No, rock bottom isn’t a place you want to visit, but if you do find yourself there, at least you can’t go any lower. The only possible direction is up. Throw in a pinch of resilience, a sprinkle of rosy memories and […]  28 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dinelson Lamet, Horribleness, Josh Edgin, Paul Sewald, Rafael Montero If there was a way to lose Wednesday night, the Mets were going to find it. The bullpen was terrible. The bullpen was terribly managed. The hitters turned a gimme into a gag me. Just a complete and utter disaster. Insult to injury: said meltdown came against the Padres, who sure don’t look like a team capable […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bullpen, Curtis Granderson, Fernando Salas, Hansel Robles, Horribleness, Hunter Renfroe, Idiotic Managing, Josh Smoker, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Neil Ramirez, Padres, Terry Collins An occasional debate in these parts and elsewhere is whether there’s such a thing as a good loss. Does it make a difference if your team lost but put the fear of the baseball gods in the opposition? Lost but learned something about themselves? (Other than, presumably, that they lost.) Lost but exhausted the other […] So who was betting on “Rafael Montero blows it almost immediately” when pondering how Wednesday’s game was going to end? And how many of you astute folks were brave enough to put $100 down on that in Vegas? If you did, I know you’re swaggering around wearing the grin of a person who’s got, say, $105. This is what things have […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Hopelessness, Jose Reyes, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald As chroniclers of the Great Mets Fiasco of 2017, we’d be derelict in our duty if we failed to record this sequence for posterity: Hansel Robles, a reliever whose photo may actually appear next to the word “streaky” in baseball-centric dictionaries, faces Arizona slugger Paul Goldschmidt leading off the bottom of the eighth in a 1-1 game. […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Daniel Descalso, Hansel Robles, Jeff Mathis, Josh Edgin, Paul Goldschmidt, Yasmany Tomas Sometimes, to steal a line from my other dorky pursuit, you have a bad feeling about this. I wasn’t particularly confident in the outcome of Saturday’s Mets-Brewers tilt before it started: in addition to the relentless winnowing of key pieces, the once-vaunted starting pitching has suddenly turned not just ordinary but considerably less than that. But that bad […] I mean, what else could you call it? The Mets’ most lovable misfit toy, who’s 25 years old chronologically but about 700 in Mets-drama years, was repeatedly front and center in this one … in good ways and bad. Wilmer Flores collected three hits, all off the righties he’s not supposed to hit, the last of which […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eduardo Nunez, Jeurys Familia, Justin Ruggiano, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores People go to the movies and yammer. They go to the symphony and fail to silence their phones. They go to museums to take selfies and be dumb. There’s no art form created by humanity that can’t be ruined by the presence of humans. Why should baseball be any different? The always-dizzying Mets have had quite the run of […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buster Posey, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Neil Walker, Stupid Bullshit An old maxim of pretty much everything is never to interrupt your opponent while (s)he’s making a mistake. With that credo in mind, the Mets essentially sat back on a drizzly Saturday night and let the Marlins do whatever that was they were doing instead of playing baseball. The Mets have their issues, goodness knows, beginning with […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Curtis Granderson, Injuries, Marlins |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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