Midweek afternoons were not made for watching baseball, which is why when the two get together, their appeal is so undeniable. Today was the final time in 2010 you needed several hours in the middle of your weekday to fully enjoy your Mets. Twenty-two games remain, some of them in weekend daylight, the rest commencing […]
 
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. |
Any way we can get Nyjer Morgan to turn his wrath on Willie Harris? Amid an eighteen-run Met explosion, how could there not be a few bangs, pops and whiffs off the bat of the object of my offensive obsession, Mike Hessman? The best news where Hessmania was concerned Sunday is the admission into Club Hessman — One Met Home Run and One Met Home Run Only — of a […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Darren Reed, Fernando Martinez, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, Kevin Roberson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Offensive Explosion, Ruben Tejada Eighteen — as represented by chai — is considered good luck in Judaism. And when you get as lucky as the Mets did by scoring eighteen runs the Sunday before Labor Day at Wrigley Field, then there’s no need to belabor the point by saying much beyond mazel tov! So sit back and enjoy, knowing that there […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chai, Offensive Explosion, Paul McCartney, Wrigley Field In this new post-realization era of 2010 Mets baseball — in which we fully realize we’re toast — 7-6 losses of games which we once led 3-0 should seem, as R.A. Dickey might eloquently put it, inconsequential. For the big picture, sure, but in terms of leading by three and losing by one, it’s pretty […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake DeWitt, Carlos Marmol, Edward Hopper, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, R.B. Greaves, Steve Goodman, Tim Leary, Tim McCarver, Tin Tin, Wrigley Field, Xavier Nady Thursday night, the Mets won a baseball game, which is a result any Mets fan welcomes. And I indeed welcome it. (“Hi win, good to see you. I’d almost forgotten what one of you looks like.”) But I have to admit, in one of those “bad fan” episodes to which Jason occasionally cops, I’m not […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2010 Mets, Inevitability, Peace, Reality The Braves shoved nine runs down the Mets’ throats Monday. They shoved nine more there Tuesday. They were en route to dishing up their usual nightly serving on Wednesday when they realized it was hardly worth the trouble. Why bother scoring nine runs when no more than two would be necessary? Mighty thoughtful of Bobby […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bart Shirley, Calvin Schiraldi, Herm Winningham, Jay Payton, Joe Moock, Joe Nolan, Julio Valera, Keith Hughes, Kevin Collins, Lucas Duda, Met Debuts, New Toy Club, Rich Puig, Rob Gardner, Ron Gardenhire, Ryan Thompson, Sandy Alomar Sr., Sandy Senior Tour, Team History, Timo Perez While we wait for Mike Hessman to resign the presidency of Club Hessman (players with exactly one Met home run, current membership 68), we notice he suffers from a touch of Dave Kingman. But just a touch. See, Mike strikes out a lot…while lagging 153 Met home runs behind SkyKing. If you’re going to strike out […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eli Marrero, Kaz Matsui, Mike Hessman, Strikeouts, Team History Jeff Francoeur is suddenly a Texas Ranger, in the leaderly company of Alex Cora. Rod Barajas is a happily homestanding Los Angeles Dodger. Jason Bay is a dizzy denizen of the Disabled List, perhaps wishing life worked as it does in the cartoons and that if he could just slam his face into another outfield […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clubhouse Chemistry, Jeff Francoeur, Joaquin Arias, Lucas Duda, Trades R.A. Dickey’s initial preparations really paid off, eh? The knuckleballer’s erudition, real or imagined, reads even better when you can find his name among the National League leaders in Earned Run Average…which you now can. It wasn’t his earned runs allowed that were keeping him out until now, but rather his relatively few innings pitched, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abraham Nunez, David Wright, Ike Hampton, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Josh Thole, Ken Henderson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shane Halter, Team History, Tim Corcoran |
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