A night after losing one of the most horrible baseball games I’ve ever seen in head-shaking, gag-inducing fashion, the Mets took on the Marlins and played eight and a half innings of baseball that was punchless but didn’t make you want to pour lye in your eyes, which is to say it was an improvement. […]
 
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. |
 25 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Recker, Greg Dobbs, Hopelessness, Jeremy Hefner, Marlins, Tim McClelland Opening Day is, needless to say, the finest on the calendar. That’s true even if you’re a fan of a bad team, or one whose best-case scenario comes down to “can assemble some of the pieces required for a better future.” The second game of the season, though, might be even nicer than Opening Day. The […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Terry Collins Even great baseball teams lose an annoying number of games. The runaway-train teams — your ’86 Mets and ’98 Yankees and ’01 Mariners — are still going to lose 15 or 20 games that make you want to lie down in the road. Which means 45 to 60 hours of your time will be dedicated to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Jerry Hairston Jr., Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey Which of these seems less likely? Scenario 1: Middle reliever Rob Carson steps in with nobody on and two men out for his first plate appearance in the major leagues. Sixty and a half feet away stands the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw, an assemblage of long limbs borrowed from a Hindu deity, stop-start motions filched […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Juan Lagares, Mark Ellis, Paco Rodriguez, Rob Carson A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bryce Harper, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin Remember when Matt Harvey nearly no-hit the Twins? That was fun. Since then, this is what we’ve had: Sunday: Snowed out Monday: Snowed out Tuesday: Lose double-header Wednesday: Snowed out Thursday: Lose And now here’s Matt Harvey on tap again. Well, except he’s facing a team that’s just a bit better than the Twins. Oh, and it’s supposed to rain. I assumed they would lose […] OK, not quite … but it sure felt that way. I would love to get an up-close look at Target Field, which I’ve seen praised as a wonderful park and the anti-Citi for its generous portions of Twinsiana. And one day I will. But tonight I was happy to be 1,200 miles away huddled on a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Buck, Ruben Tejada, Target Field, Twins, Weather Look, just forget about that one. Certainly Dillon Gee would like to. I came out of Gee’s nightmare of a second inning thinking that Objects on Scoreboard Are Less Dire Than They Appear — several of the hits had just found holes, the Mets were driving balls off Cliff Lee, and it was Citizens Bank Park. But then […] On Sunday afternoon a strange thing happened at Citi Field: The Mets won the kind of game that used to constantly go the Marlins’ way. Seriously, if you’ve been a Mets fan for 10 years or so, look at this sequence out of context and tell me it doesn’t conjure up Soilmaster Stadium, Luis Castillo, Antonio […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Jeffrey Loria, Jose Fernandez, Juan Pierre, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marlins, Ruben Tejada The Miami Marlins are horrible. Besides being a cautionary lesson to the next fanbase extorted into building a Xanadu for a sharp-elbowed gazillionaire owner (which is a fancy way of saying “an owner”), the Marlins have no hitters besides Giancarlo Stanton and Greg Dobbs, who wouldn’t count except we all know Greg Dobbs could still connect […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jeffrey Loria, Jeremy Hefner, Lucas Duda |
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