SNY’s cameras really shouldn’t have lingered on Braves’ bench coach Terry Pendleton, acting as manager, after Brian Snitker was ejected for arguing the result of a replay review Thursday night. Snitker is obviously too interim to fully understand the intricacies and ramifications of replay review rules (and when we’re straight on them, we’ll be sure […]
 
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 |  Addison Reed, Adonis Garcia, Brian Snitker, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Ralph Branca, Replay Review, Terry Pendleton, Time Machine, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilson Betemit It came at the end of Terry Collins‘s press conference, and might have been funny except for the fact that it wasn’t funny: the small manager with the large personality tried to exit stage left, then had a brief, unhappy colloquy with someone not shown by SNY’s cameras. Collins objected that there hadn’t been any […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Cheslor Cuthbert, Injuries, Matt Reynolds, Noah Syndergaard, PItching, Royals, Whit Merrifield You don’t want to have to win a game by using five relievers to cover 8.2 innings, but you surely don’t want to lose a game under those circumstances. They were unavoidable Wednesday night once Bartolo Colon was forced to leave in deference to a liner off his right thumb from Royals leadoff hitter Whit […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Bullpen, Dilemmas, Dillon Gee, Erik Goeddel, Field Of Dreams, Hansel Robles, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Jose Reyes, Royals My first brush with publication came 38 years ago this month in my junior high literary magazine, Pieces of Mind. The story I wrote was called “Saturday Afternoon Fever,” about four friends whose entire existence revolved around going to the library at the end of their week, which was the only thing that made them […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Actual Libraries, Amazin' Again, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Saturday Night Fever In this post-primary, pre-convention interregnum when we speak of presumptive nominees, I must confess I was nervous when the Mets were declared presumptive winners, perhaps sweepers, of the Atlanta Braves in advance of this past weekend’s series at Citi Field. The Braves have been remarkably bad in 2016. The Mets had been pretty good to […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Julio Teheran, Offensive Futility, One-Hitters, Sweeps Mets are down one to the allegedly lousy Braves in the bottom of the ninth with nobody out. Wilmer Flores is on first. James Loney has lashed a Jim Johnson pitch into the left-center gap. Flores is running. We probably have a few minutes until the situation resolves itself. I don’t want to say Wilmer […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ender Inciarte, Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, Haircuts, James Loney, Radio, Saturdays, Tim Teufel, Wilmer Flores Once upon a time, the spring of 1969, to be precise, the New York Mets were in the market for a hitter. Sure, other GMs told their Met counterpart Johnny Murphy, we’ll give you somebody. Names like Joe Torre, Richie Allen, even Frank Robinson were floated. All it would cost the Mets was young starting […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Fair Exchange, John Gant, Johnny Murphy, Jon Matlack, Michael Fulmer, Steve Renko, Team History, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes I realized Bartolo Colon was the batter. I heard something about a ball hit into the gap. I put 40 and 2 together and zipped (in my own Bartolian fashion) from the radio in the kitchen to the television in the living room to bear witness to the breathtaking site — taking the breath of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Injuries, Leadoff Homers, Surprises You know you’re having a good night when you can get picky over what kind of mammoth win you’d like your team to post. For those of us who remained to the bottom of the ninth inning at Citi Field Wednesday night of an obviously settled affair — and why would you leave when your […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citi Field, Complete Games, Gunnison sage-grouse, Howard Johnson, Johan Santana, John Valentin, Jon Niese, Kelly Johnson, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, Miguel Batista, Nelson Figueroa, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Rene Rivera, Thor-Hitter, Wilmer Flores THAT’S IT! The Mets have made me so mad that I’m leaving the country! OK, while I actually am leaving the country for six days in Iceland, the trip doesn’t actually have anything to do with the sad JV version of our team’s and their somnambulant performances of late. Still, it won’t exactly break my heart to play a Get Out […] |
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