Lucas Duda’s second home run had just left the building and perhaps the solar system. The Mets’ seventh run of the evening was crossing the plate, their lead over the Pirates was reaching three and it was only the fifth inning. My good friend Jeff, once he was done jumping up and down like the […]
 
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 |  Dreamy Offensive Onslaughts, Hideous T-Shirts, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Paul Sewald Brewers 2 Mets 1. Not the outcome of choice in these parts, but a reassuring baseball score for a sunny Thursday afternoon. If you’re gonna lose by a run…well don’t, but if you have to, do it neatly, quickly and move on. Two-one without extra innings implies satisfying efficiency. Yet this game lingered too long to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Brewers, Chase Anderson, Terry Collins, Time, Two-One Games, Umpiring, Wayward Bat Boys, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler I had hoped Tyler Pill might be Grover Powell. Grover Powell’s first major league start, for the Mets in 1963, was a complete game shutout, which didn’t happen for Mets rookies every day in 1963, nor, come to think of it, today. Before long, Tyler Pill 2017, who reacted well to the lights in Flushing […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Domingo Santana, Fog, Frank Deford, Grover Powell, Jay Bruce, Joel Youngblood, Josh Smoker, Luis Castillo, Manny Gonzalez, Mike Scioscia, Moment of Silence, Rick Anderson, Shaun Marcum, T.J. Rivera, The Mets Subconscious, Tyler Pill Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day via the most impressive thing Jim Bunning ever did for public consumption. Bunning threw a perfect game on Father’s Day […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Applause for a Visitor, Howie Rose, Jim Bunning, Moment of Silence, Perfect Games, Ralph Kiner, Shea Stadium You so knew this was coming, you could’ve baked a cake. The Mets were leading, but they could’ve been leading by more. Five batters in, you realized the Mets were bracing you for what lied ahead three-plus hours later. With two out in the top of the first, Jay Bruce homered. Mets up, 1-0. Great. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew McCutchen, Cake, Gerrit Cole, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, John Jaso, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Neil Ramirez, Pirates, PNC Park, Travis d'Arnaud, Tyler Pill, Zack Wheeler “All right, time for bed.” 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Incomplete Games, Jacob deGrom, Lucas Duda, Neil Walker, Pitch Counts, Tyler Pill Joe Posnanski, who writes lyrically and frequently about baseball, published a breezy piece last week titled “Ranking the Stadiums,” in which he identified Citi Field as one of the majors’ “Underrated Ballparks,” alongside Comerica Park and Angel Stadium. He elaborated, “I actually don’t know if Citi Field is underrated — I suspect most people who […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Gary Cohen, Joe Posnanski, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Padres, Warner Wolf When Dallas Green died, an AP photo of him from his Mets managing days circulated alongside obituaries and other remembrances. It was from the beginning of his final Spring Training running the club, taken in his office in Port St. Lucie. Dallas was in what baseball people call street clothes, but with a Mets windbreaker […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Mets Managers, Milestones, Terry Collins Nineteen years ago today, the course of the Mets changed for good and for the better. On May 22, 1998, a trade was consummated between the New York Mets and Florida Marlins. Plainly stated, the Mets packaged an outfielder they’d recently called up, Preston Wilson, with two minor league lefty pitchers, Geoff Goetz and Ed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Deleted Scenes, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mike Piazza Here’s a new proposal for shortening the length of baseball games: shorten the length of baseball games. Or shorten the length of one baseball game in particular by one inning. Let us retroactively by 24 hours implement such a rule so it is applicable only to Saturday evening Interleague contests conducted in facilities constructed after […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alex Meyer, Angels, Angst, Danny Espinosa, Eight-Inning Games, Fernando Salas, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Milestones, Neil Ramirez, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler |
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