Ike Davis is neither here nor there right now, which is a shame for Ike and a shame for the Mets. He’s not here in the sense of looking like he’s a part of a team when it’s having its ups, as it did Tuesday night behind R.A. Dickey’s 11 dancing strikeouts, and it’s become […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andres Torres, Ike Davis, James McDonald, Mike Nickeas, R.A. Dickey, Slumps Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption The Toronto Blue Jays? They still have those? That’s not meant to be a slam on the level of Bill Terry’s notorious “is Brooklyn still in the league?” or Charlie Dressen’s equally karma-busting “the Giants is dead!” But the dynastic Jays of the early ’90s and their dome that seemed so of the moment haven’t been front […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pecota, Blue Jays, Bob Geren, David Wright, Derek Bell, Dwight Gooden, Hideo Nomo, Position Players Pitching, Rob Johnson, Robert Carson, SCTV Jason and I took advantage of our self-employed status to enjoy an ad hoc self-employed businessman’s special at Citi Field Thursday afternoon. Our respective gaggles of gigs may not guarantee the most secure of financial existences, but when you can get up and go to a weekday afternoon game, I’d have to say there are […] After re-editing the 1985 highlight video in such a manner to reignite the whole Roe v. Wade controversy (because it was such an abortion), SNY tries to make it up to us by presenting Mets Yearbook: 1962. It debuts Thursday night at 8:00 and reairs at 10:00, in concert with the channel’s 50 Greatest Mets […] Seven scoreless from Jamie Moyer’s spiritual younger brother from another mother Miguel Batista…spectacular. Daniel Murphy skipping a ball between Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s strides and through the shortstop hole Gary Cohen had detected a moment earlier…delicious. Terry Collins ordering a squeeze bunt and Ronny Cedeño executing it to two-nothing perfection…wunderbar! David Wright…superlatives implied. So many marvelous morsels to chew on for […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closers, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Miguel Batista That darn Giancarlo Stanton really did it to us Sunday. What a bastard. The walkoff grand slam that added a fashionable dent to the fishy Home Run Sculpture? No, not that (though that sucked, too). I’m talking about Stanton’s first hit, the single to center that opened the bottom of the second, which was the Marlins’ […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dick Groat, Fiftieth Anniversary, Garry Templeton, Giancarlo Stanton, Jimmy Qualls, Jimmy Rollins, Juan Pierre, Julian Javier, No-Hitters, Pete Rose, Stan Javier, Team History, Tom Seaver Spiritual predecessors of your 2012 Mets? Listening to Terry Collins in his postgame media sessions makes me think he is the model for a dozen “manager” characters from a dozen underwhelming baseball movies: focused, straightforward, likes fine what he does for a living, only dabbles in nuance if so compelled by reporter’s interrogation. But watching […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad News Bears, David Wright, Marlins Park, Mike Baxter, R.A. Dickey, Terry Collins, Walter Matthau If you’re a Mets fan who likes to read, read George Vecsey recounting his recent visit with 1962-1964 Met pitcher Craig Anderson, who finished his career on an 18-game losing streak but not before he crammed two wins into one day, fifty years ago tomorrow. For a man whose name became statistically synonymous with “loss,” […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Craig Anderson, Doubleheaders, George Vecsey, No-Hitters Sweeping the Phillies in Philadelphia sure is fun, isn’t it? Sweeping anybody anywhere is a fine half-week’s work, but taking it to this bunch — the portion of it presently standing, at any rate — in that place? Sublime! The Phillies aren’t quite what they’ve been in the era encompassing August 2007 and everything after. That, of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Citizens Bank Park, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, Kyle Kendrick, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Rob Johnson, Shane Victorino, Sweep |
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