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,” […]
 
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. |
 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 To understand that headline, go back a day and read my partner’s rather awesome post about Monday night’s instant Mets Classic. Monday night’s game — forever to be recalled fondly, except in the Papelbon household, as the Jordany Valdespin Game — was a tense, taut affair, about as beautiful as a baseball game can be. Confronted […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Joe Blanton, Jordany Valdespin, Miguel Batista, Pete Orr, Phillies, Ramon Ramirez But, Marge, that little guy hasn’t done anything yet. Look at him. He’s going to do something and you know it’s going to be good. Mets fans of a certain age…essentially my age…have been giving themselves over to repeated cases of the goose bumps for the last couple of […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Channel 9, Jon Niese, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Marlon Anderson, Mike Nickeas, Roy Halladay, Shane Victorino, Ty Wigginton Among the many Mets bloggers carrying on for the one who couldn’t make it to Hofstra were Steve Keane, John Coppinger, Taryn Cooper and yours truly. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bornstein.) Dear Dana, I either have to thank you or blame you for directing me to file my overdue report on the Hofstra Mets 50th […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Blogging, Buddy Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dana Brand, Dave Kingman, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Vecsey, Gil Hodges, Hofstra Conference, Marv Throneberry, Mets Fans, Mr. Met, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Team History As I’ve grown older, I’ve had to be less doctrinaire about 1:10 and 7:10 and where in the pecking order of life “WATCH METS” fits. There are business trips, social events, the duties of fatherhood — a whole welter of things that sometimes come between me and the game. But most of the time, I can […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fathers and Sons, Howie Rose, Lucas Duda, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada Johan Santana knows from customer service. We ask the ace to pitch like an ace, his year away from acedom notwithstanding, and on Saturday he delivered like, well, an ace. Not Johan of the Twins nor Johan of the Trade (let alone Johan of His Finest Hour and several sublime Met moments before and after) […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Bobbleheads, Bobby Parnell, Customer Service, Daniel Murphy, Frank Francisco, Johan Santana, Mike Nickeas, Tom Seaver It wasn’t fun watching Ike Davis strike out, roll an ankle and let a grounder play him into a helpless knot on its way into right field. It wasn’t fun watching Jon Rauch hang sliders and snap his big, tattooed head around to follow their flight into faraway parts of Citi Field. It wasn’t fun watching Scott […] Some days you have to go to the ‘pen and go with the arm that feels it most — feels it as a fan and feels it as a writer. When we talk about Rivera’s pitching motion, his mulish imperturbability, his athletic grace under pressure, we think of artists not ball players: Buster Keaton, Fred Astaire, Al […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Belth, Injuries, Mariano Rivera, Relief Pitching, Yankees Well it’s lonesome in this old town How many pitchers does it take to replace Mike Pelfrey? More than one, we can now state with absolute certainty. The front office that we reflexively tag with the genius label didn’t exactly have a […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Casey Stengel, Chris Schwinden, Embalmed, Mike Nickeas, Mike Pelfrey, Mosquitoes, Routine, Sandy Alderson |
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