This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […]
 
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. |
 15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller 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 So what kind of loss would you prefer? One where the Mets look flat and inoffensive and collect no hits at all, or one where the Mets collect lots of hits, but can’t pitch, field or run the bases so it doesn’t matter? What’s that? You’d like neither? Sorry, not on the menu. Unlike on Chris Heston‘s big […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Matt Harvey, Tommy John Surgery, Wilpons 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 […] It seemed like a good idea. With our kid headed off to California with grandparents, I asked Emily if she wanted to go to the Mets game. Noah Syndergaard was pitching, and tickets were 66% off. She thought it was a capital idea. We snagged two seats in the front row of the Left Field landing, […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Heston, Citi Field, Giants, No-Hitters, Noah Syndergaard, Rob Drake, Wilpons Welp, that first West Coast trip is out of the way, and the Mets went 3-4, but 2-87 if you adjust the results by Depressed Met Fan Black Cloud Overhead Factor. 2-87 is obviously horrible, and in our spiritual standings the Mets are now 10,462 games out of first place. 3-4, on the other hand, is not horrendous […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores 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 The Mets didn’t lose, though it kind of feels that way. 2015 isn’t a flaming disaster, though it kind of feels that way. What’s going on here? Reality check: The Mets beat the Diamondbacks, 6-2. It’s the early hours of June 5 and they are in first place. So why doesn’t it feel that way? Why does it feel […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, First Place, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathon Niese, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilpons |
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