BAZ was on the back of the jersey of the pitcher on the mound for Tampa Bay on Sunday. For a moment, I let myself believe BAZ was an icon on the level of CHER. Just one name. Just one syllable. All you needed to know was that BAZ was in town. No wonder Citi […]
 
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. |
As it’s Father’s Day, allow me this recollection of the night, over dinner, my father decided he needed to read us a poem written by Rudyard Kipling. What, this type of thing didn’t happen in your kitchen? This was when I was in seventh grade, so perhaps the impetus was me mentioning, only because I was asked, […] Except for the top of the sixth inning, Friday night at Citi Field was a pretty good game. The Mets scored five runs versus the Tampa Bay Rays and received five solid innings from Clay Holmes. Gotta like things of that nature occurring. It’s a shame the top of the sixth, when Paul Blackburn and Max […] All wins are created equal in the standings. Some wins are a little less equal emotionally. Some wins take a back seat to other events surrounding a given game. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. Mets fire a manager but win as a going-away present to their suddenly erstwhile skipper? The win doesn’t resonate. Mets raise […] Maybe you remember The Game-Ending Unassisted Triple Play Game, or TGEUTPG. If a game earns its name from a particular event within, it stands a pretty good chance of maintaining notoriety, with “notoriety” in this case being used correctly. TGEUTPG concluded with Luis Castillo on second base, Daniel Murphy on first, and Jeff Francoeur batting in […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2009 Mets, David Wright, Eras, Eric Bruntlett, Four-Inning Saves, Gary Rajsich, Inflection Points, Jeff Francoeur, Jeff McNeil, Long-Term Progress, Nadirs, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Plateaus, Pummelings, Rockies, Strides, Team History, Unassisted Triple Play, Under .500, West Wing Sure, it was horrible and painful like it was horrible and painful some 66 hours before, but at least it didn’t happen at one in the morning. So we had that going for us. Otherwise, Thursday’s West Coast matinee beamed east with something approximating the atrocious ending that marred Tuesday’s late-night implosion. The revised edition encompassed […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Medina, Brett Baty, Dodgers, Horrible, Jose Urena, Michael Conforto, Painful, Season Series Victories, Starling Marte Be glad that the first-place Mets compete on the same elite level as the first-place Dodgers. Be glad that the Mets play close, compelling games versus the defending world champions. Be glad the Mets can show up at Dodger Stadium and grab a quick 1-0 lead off future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw. Be glad Tylor Megill can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Brandon Waddell, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Freddie Freeman, Horrible, Huascar Brazoban, Juan Soto, Luis Torrens, Max Muncy, Painful, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Ronny Mauricio, Tylor Megill Some ballgames elude complexity. Sunday’s had on one side of Citi Field the team that was tied for best record in its league, and on the other side of the divide the team with the worst record in all of baseball. The team with a best-record claim had three world-class sluggers. The team with the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clay Holmes, Francisco Lindor, Home Runs, Johnny Mathis, Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, Rockies, Simplicity A staple of postgame postmortems, specifically in the games where leads got away within sports whose rigidly timed action flows back and forth, is that the team that lost played not to lose rather than to win. Their defense wasn’t aggressive enough. Their offense wasn’t opportunistic enough. Winning wasn’t the priority. Not losing was, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cliches, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Juan Soto, Not Losing, Reed Garrett, Rockies, Starling Marte Big league ballplayers aren’t usually told to keep their day jobs, because they tend to work nights. Wednesday, the Mets were told to forget about their night jobs — fellas, you’re working the day shift. The change in their schedule, necessitated by a rainy forecast, didn’t appear to sit well with them. The White Sox, adhering […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Waddell, Mike Vasil, Pitchers on the Periphery, The Flintstones |
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