David Wright and Jose Reyes are All-Stars together for the third time in their careers. Once they were elected as a left side tandem in 2006, I would have assumed it would be an annual event. It became one in 2007. Then it stopped being one. David had to be named a last-minute reserve in […]
 
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. |
The funny thing is, for 80 games and 8 innings, it really was a helluva first half. It was more than I hoped for and more than we could have dreamed of. Who here really thought the Mets, even after the worst, dumbest ninth-inning meltdown of the season, would be 9 games over .500; in […] Fuck you, K-Rod. Honestly, fuck you. And you too, Bay. I wanted you both here, I liked you in other uniforms, you’re both fucking worthless. Take your huge fucking contracts and sleep on them tonight. FUCK YOU! Jesus…and I don’t mean Feliciano. Not to take this overly personally, but I had a real nice post composed in […] The good thing about 5-0 leads, besides the obvious Us > Them factor, is that it lets you screw up a fair amount and not have it be fatal. Which Jerry Manuel and Frankie Rodriguez promptly did, with a little help from Elmer Dessens. Elmer has somehow been fairly reliable, certainly reliable enough to be […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bad Fans, Fear, Francisco Rodriguez, Jerry Manuel, Luis Castillo, R.A. Dickey, Roger Bernadina, Ruben Tejada, Stupidity Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Yankee Stadium (New) But it’s all […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Shea, Continental League, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Flashback Friday, Michael Shapiro, New Yankee Stadium, Yankees GOOD SIGNS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT • Johan Santana had the breaking pitch working, thereby forestalling by at least one start the precipitous decline feared on his behalf in this space five days earlier. • Ruben Tejada displays incredible intelligence and instincts no matter where he plays. Whatever way you figure out to get Cliff Lee here, the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesus Feliciano, Johan Santana, Livan Hernandez, Ruben Tejada Last night Emily and I continued our childless week with another excellent dinner and a sunset walk along the High Line, New York City’s startlingly beautiful conversion of an ancient freight railway into a meadowland in the sky. The Mets were even obliging us by being delayed by rain down in San Juan, where they’d […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Howe, Expos, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins, Paranoia You know why Tuesday night’s loss to the Marlins felt as familiar as it felt sickening? Because it was very familiar. Thanks to Baseball Reference (how did I ever live without it?), I was able to find that the Mets have lost 68 road games to the Florida Marlins since their inception in 1993, including the […] It may temporarily bear the Marlins’ name, but Hiram Bithorn Stadium reeks of Expos, Expos and more Expos. It’s 2003 and 2004 all over again all of a sudden and we suck in ways we haven’t sucked in years, last year included. I think I may have even seen Eric Valent at the bat rack […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2004 Mets, Art Howe, Expos, Hateful Opponents, Hiram Bithorn Stadium, Marlins, Puerto Rico Two facts of life become apparent every summer in these parts: 1) New York is a humid place. 2) Ralph Kiner is an awesome man. You know that incessantly run Heineken Light commercial, the one in which the young-ish guy explains how he and his pal Jamie won $94 million in the lottery and relocated to some slice […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Awesomeness Personified, Heineken Light, Ralph Kiner, SNY |
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