Jon Niese is recovered from his shoulder woes. His arm feels good. He’s revised his mechanics to correct the bad habits that led to shoulder irritation in the first place. But those revised mechanics are causing him to miss his location, leading to innings that blow up on him, as happened twice against the Nationals […]
 
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. |
With apologies, if not royalties, to Helen Reddy… I am Wheeler The Nats had me on But you should get wise  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Helen Reddy, Unlikely Inspirations, Zack Wheeler The life of a freelance writer is by turns exciting and terrifying, but one of its undeniable benefits is that a weekday matinee is no big deal. Well, except when you’ve taken a fairly intense temporary office gig. And when you don’t check the schedule carefully enough during the process of dividing game duties with your blog partner. I […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben May, Fans, Giants, Juan Lagares, MLB At Bat, Radio Sunday marked 10 years since Bob Murphy’s passing. Though those who fill his role today do a fine job of it, Murph remains missed because how do you ever stop missing Bob Murphy? He is the voice of New York Mets baseball. Is, not was. Not long ago I heard a clip of him. I […] This business wherein the Mets overcome years of being mostly bad and become mostly good is not a linear endeavor. Homestands of 8-2 are followed up with road trips of 5-5. Two out of three get taken from the Phillies only to have two of three (with one to go) given to the Giants. Exhilarating […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Fred Toney, Hippo Vaughn, Jacob deGrom, Jake Peavy, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Kim Wilde, Madison Bumgarner, Michael Morse, Neosporin, Pablo Sandoval, Steve Henderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Youth Where did Jacob deGrom come from, anyway? I’d heard of him, of course, but not in a Matt Harvey/Zack Wheeler/Noah Syndergaard way, in which each mention is part of a countdown, the promotion becomes a rallying cry, and if the first big-league start comes at home you figure out if you can go so years later you can […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Heather Quinlan, Jacob deGrom, Jake Peavy, Juan Lagares, Michael Morse, Pablo Sandoval Is the game over yet? The Mets and Giants ceased their Friday night hostilities so quickly it was as if they were worried about staying one step ahead of the Sharknado. As it happened, only the Giants bared their offensive teeth, with two runs early, three runs later […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jon Niese, Lucas Duda, Quick Games, Rudy, Ryan Vogelsong, Sharknado The 2014 World Champion New York Mets’ highlight DVD — whose title, Soak It Up, of course refers to the several million 7 Line hit towels we twirled as our boys rode triumphantly up the Canyon of Heroes — features one of the biggest blows of the year, Daniel Murphy’s fifth-inning, opposite-field, three-run homer, the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2014 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Jeurys Familia, Rose Royce, Vision The funny thing is I figured we were going to win this one. The Mets have a way of hanging in there against Cole Hamels, then biting out his throat and letting us all unearth his ill-advised chokers comment to chortle over. So even though it was 2-0 and we were running out of outs, I was […] A sportswriter once asked Yankees owner Colonel Ruppert to describe his perfect afternoon. Replied Ruppert: “It’s when the Yankees score eight in the first and then slowly pull away.” Wrong team, different margin, but yeah — a flurry of first-inning Mets hits was all Bartolo Colon would need, and all we’d need with our team finally back […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Joan Payson, Todd Radom, Uniforms |
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