That’s the way the baseball season works — you get snowed out in a somewhat farcical early-spring trip, the makeup date gets stuck on the calendar so far off that it might as well be science fiction, and then the makeup date comes around after all, leaving you mildly surprised to realize the season has […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson Remember the bottom of the first, when Travis d’Arnaud crouched down behind the plate in his very old-school catcher’s gear and made his major-league debut? That was awesome. Too bad the rest of the game sucked. And it did suck — it was a sloggy, groggy mess that took the better part of forever while being alternately depressing […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Aardsma, Jenrry Mejia, Rookies, Travis d'Arnaud Every now and again your baseball team goes on a run. Maybe it’s a good run, where the players look loose and up in the stands or out there on your couch you’re confident that they’ll keep cruising to victory or come back and win. Maybe it’s a great run, which is all of the […] Get out your microscopes, because we’re going to examine a very small silver lining. For much of the spring, as horrific loss followed horrific loss, I advised you to do something else with your summer, even as I knew I wouldn’t take my own advice. I didn’t and I’m glad I didn’t, because the Mets are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Fairchild, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Umpiring Maybe this is actually the year of the overlooked Mets pitcher. Sure, Matt Harvey has been Olympian and each start makes Zack Wheeler looks more like the phenom he was heralded as. But the other day we were talking about Dillon Gee’s turnaround. Not so long ago Jenrry Mejia came off the prospect scrap heap to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Derek Jeter, Diamondbacks, Jonathon Niese, MLB, New York, Todd Zeile, Tuffy Gosewisch, Uniforms, Yankees By now we’re used to Dillon Gee. We don’t think “My goodness, Dillon Gee is starting — I better clear my calendar.” We don’t barrage Twitter with our top-shelf material. We don’t rotate in a cheeky/blasphemous cover image for our Facebook page. It’s just Dillon Gee, after all. Maybe we’re a little too used to Dillon […] Relax, all right? Don’t try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls, it’s more democratic. — Bull Durham The forecast was ominous: likely rain. Yeah right. The raindrops remained at a respectful distance, because they — like the rest of us — wanted to watch Matt […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Eric Young Jr., Hope, Manny Corpas, Matt Harvey, Wilmer Flores This weekend was my annual get-together with my college pals, and while I’m never happy to miss a Mets game, Mets-Royals is about as missable as it gets. Like my blog partner, I have nothing against the Royals — in fact, I have a certain distracted, information-free affection for them. Back in the late 1970s, a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Marlon Byrd, Royals, Wilmer Flores One of these days Matt Harvey will have his revenge on the Miami Marlins, and it will be glorious. One of these days his teammates will stop eyeing him with quiet awe and score runs for him, and that will be even better. Until then, we’re left with days like today, games in which the Mets do […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Donovan Solano, Ike Davis, Marlins, Matt Harvey Perhaps you’ve heard: Baseball is an unfair game. I learned that as a kid, having read it somewhere in the collected works of noted philosopher Roderick Edwin Kanehl, known once upon the Polo Grounds as Hot Rod. Baseball, Prof. Kanehl explained, “is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Marlins, No-Hit Bids, Rod Kanehl, Zack Wheeler |
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