 
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. |
Bartolo Colon has 9 wins. Jeurys Familia has 18 saves. Those are some pretty cool numbers, even for our sophisticated statistical times. Wins have been discredited as a leading indicator of starting pitcher effectiveness and are all but useless for measuring anything a reliever does, but when the starter always earns the decision, I don’t think […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Torres, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Torres, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Statistics, Tsuris I was wrong to have expected the 11:02 from Jamaica to have left Jamaica at 11:02, so my last call of Thursday night was off (forty sweltering, cranky minutes of waiting later, I realized there’s a reason the LIRR never touts the train from the game). Otherwise, though, I had a pretty good run of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Eric Campbell, Football, Giants, Jon Niese, Mets Fans, Michael Cuddyer, New York Giants, Rube Walker, Skid Rowe I’ll admit it. I was rooting for it. I was out on Seventh Avenue in front of Penn Station using the time before the 9:39 Babylon train was announced to hear Howie Rose call history in the making. It was too absorbing a broadcast to let go to waste on a late two-out single that would […] Remember Arizona when Arizona was really Arizona? When Arizona was a welcoming oasis for Mets bats? Remember 14-1, 18-4 and 15-2? Those were scores by which the Mets pounded Diamondback pitching at Chase Field in 2005 and 2006. We didn’t always win by a ton but we always won when we visited the desert. We […] Friday night in Phoenix didn’t offer enough positive developments to encourage the pessimistic yet likely didn’t dampen the stubborn enthusiasm of the optimistic. Jon Niese pitched well enough to win until he fell behind. From there, the bullpen pitched poorly enough to ensure he’d lose. Oh, and once again nobody hit. Or “nobody” hit, as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Lyons, Charlie O'Brien, David Cone, Dick Schofield, Double Vision, Eddie Murray, John Mayberry, Kevin McReynolds, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada, Ryan Thompson, Team History, Tim Teufel, Twin Digits, Uniform Numbers, Vince Coleman Dillon Gee didn’t look so hot, but neither did Craig Kimbrel, and Craig Kimbrel is a big deal. Plus Kimbrel only pitches ninth innings, usually. Gee pitches firsts, seconds, maybe a couple more… Usually Gee pitches fifths and then some. Usually he’s in a five-man rotation. Usuallys are hard to gauge some nights. Kimbrel, I hear, hasn’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Craig Kimbrel, Dillon Gee, Hideo Nomo, Lucas Duda, One-Third of a Season, Six-Man Rotations, Teases The good news: Nobody had to mention walking to describe Noah Syndergaard’s problems in San Diego Wednesday. The less good news: David Wright had to mention walking to describe his own problems before the same game that quickly became the worst of Syndergaard’s career. “Syndergaard’s career” is, to date, a five-start proposition, so except for denying us […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Benny Bell, Carlos Delgado, David Wright, Goodfellas, Injuries, Noah Syndergaard, Octavio Dotel, The Sopranos, Youth Shocking as it may have been to behold, Bartolo Colon doubling in Anthony Recker was less surprising than Ruben Tejada emerging as the Mets’ full-time third baseman. Anthony Recker being on second for Colon to double in was rather stunning in and of itself — Recker was 0-for-13 at Citi Field before the bottom of the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bartolo Colon, Gregg Jefferies, Keith Miller, Limited Options, Mets Third Basemen, Ruben Tejada Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a not completely forgotten milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this ninth of ten installments, we go to the only ballpark we’ve got. Citi Field and I have had a strained relationship these past seven […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Beach Towel Day, Citi Field, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jon Niese, Marlins Early on, it was the kind of game you watched with eyes wide open. By the time the postgame show rolled around, you didn’t mind that you were nodding off to the sounds of Gary Apple and Nelson Figueroa telling you what went wrong. You already knew what went wrong. The Mets didn’t hit enough […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dee Gordon, Jon Stewart, Justin Bour, Matt Harvey, Not Just Another Pitcher |
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