Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Cole Hamels, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Phillies After last night’s thriller, today’s game was almost certain to be a letdown — but unfortunately it was worse than that. It was the inverse of last night, with the key plays going minutely but decisively the Giants’ way. Omar Quintanilla and Daniel Murphy were just a bit slow trying to turn the double play […] After eight and a half innings, I had a little roadmap of tonight’s post scrawled on a bit of scratch paper: Another chapter of Mets payroll football, starring Sandy Alderson as Charlie Brown 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Gary Cohen, Giants, Josh Satin, Juan Centeno, Matt den Dekker, The Holy Books, Zach Lutz Bud Harrelson looked bored. I looked again, to make sure. Yes, Derrel McKinley Harrelson definitely looked bored. The Mets icon turned Long Island Ducks co-owner was standing in the parking lot of Citi Field, leaning on a metal barrier set up around a stretch of asphalt that had been turned into a Wiffle ball field. No one […] There ain’t much left to play for: A .500 season vanished from the realm of possibility with the afternoon’s listless defeat, and draft picks are too much of a crapshoot for me to take seriously. But as is often the case, I think I’m moved on to acceptance. It was … kinda fun watching the Mets […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Keith Hernandez, Shaun Marcum Lucas Duda spent the spring trudging around left field until an intercostal strain and a dose of reality dictated that he stop. He then spent the summer in Las Vegas. When he returned, he went from left field to left out, with first base occupied by fellow reclamation project Ike Davis. Then Ike strained something (the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Brad Hand, Giancarlo Stanton, Lucas Duda, Rick Ankiel Surprise! Aaron Harang was … not that bad. He wasn’t great, but he pitched capably enough — a team with an iota of offense might have had a chance out there, which unfortunately doesn’t describe the current Mets. A couple of weeks ago, our young players might have frowned at hearing that baseball conventional wisdom is […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Frank Francisco, Jayson Werth, Ron Darling, WFAN Matt den Dekker is a plus center fielder for a team that suddenly has a surplus of them, has some pop, and looks like he’s got an idea about how to approach an at-bat. Travis d’Arnaud, despite being written off by people unfamiliar with the concept of “small sample size,” has a good arm and an […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Matt den Dekker, Travis d'Arnaud Joaquin Andujar, a quotable pitcher from a bygone era, famously remarked that his favorite word in English was “you never know.” Which is a good way to break down Sunday’s Mets-Indians finale: * Daisuke Matsuzaka was good. No really, he was. Though as Scott Kazmir showed, that’s what happens when you’re facing a club that let […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Frank Francisco, Joaquin Andujar, Justin Turner Well. Your New York Mets, losers of five of six, will send Daisuke Matsuzaka to the hill on Sunday in an effort to prevent the Indians from sweeping, a tactic that summons up visions of the Maginot Line. Anything’s possible — Dice-K may author the Mets’ second no-hitter for all we know — but the Mets’ […] |
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