I spent the last five days in Chicago, getting my Star Wars on at McCormick Place and in the hotel bar. So my Mets attention was fitful and scattershot. I saw news of the first night’s events in amazing seats behind the plate at Wrigley Field (plenty of good options available when it’s still frigid), […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andres Torres, Baseball Cards, Guillermo Mota, Jon Niese, Jonahs, Jose Vizcaino, Paul Sewald, Ramon Ramirez, Steven Matz “Neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” You might know that as the U.S. Postal Service’s motto, though actually it just adorns one of their temple-like buildings here in New York City. (And is a translation of Herodotus, who was talking about messengers in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Brandon Crawford, Extra Innings, Giants, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays I know it, you know it, the players know it, the fans know it. I suspect Bud Selig knows it. The question is what he’s going to do about it. Let’s get rid of some preliminaries: Before the pivotal call by first-base ump David Rackley, the Mets hadn’t played a particularly good game. Collin McHugh, so […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Collin McHugh, David Rackley, Fans, MLB, Umpires After wrapping up their current series in Miami, the Mets re-enter the general baseball conversation for a little while, which has its upside and its down. The upside is everything the Mets do in their succeeding nine games against St. Louis, Atlanta and Washington potentially impacts the playoff picture. The down is that what appears […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Daniel Murphy, David Samson, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Justin Ruggiano, Kelly Shoppach, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Mike Baxter, MLB Network, Ozzie Guillen, Pennant Race, Steve Cishek First off, a fearless prediction: R.A. Dickey is not going to win the Cy Young award. He’ll be deserving — he’s got a good chance to lead the league in strikeouts and maybe wins, and he’ll be up there among the ERA leaders. And I have no doubt that he’ll be mentioned alongside Ryan Vogelsong and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Game Winners, Andres Torres, knuckleball, R.A. Dickey, Tony La Russa Sure the season is shot, but at least we get a chance to take a good, long look at Josh Thole! Never mind throwback uniforms from 1989 (technically 1988 to 1992 for us, but it was the Padres’ party, so whatever). It’s 2010 all over again on the Mets’ schedule. It might as well be in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Trevino, Andres Torres, Carlos Quentin, Henry Blanco, Josh Thole, Mets Catchers, Padres, Rod Barajas, Ronny Cedeno, Scott Hairston, Yonder Alonso Before tonight’s game, our bloggy colleagues at Amazin’ Avenue asked readers to predict how many wins the 47-48 Mets would wind up with. My answer: 47, though I admitted that might be overly pessimistic. Tonight the Mets played the kind of game that they’ve specialized in since the break: Fall behind, catch up thanks to a brief […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Despair, Futility, Pedro Beato, Ruben Tejada The fine print on doggedly determined underdog teams that rise up and take a bite out of dismissive expectations is they’re prone to getting rapped on the nose by those wielding rolled-up newspapers…or booming bats. This was a lousy weekend to be the Little Team That Could once it became apparent they Couldn’t. This was a […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Frustration, Miguel Batista, Nick Swisher, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Subway Series We know best-selling author R.A. Dickey is a person as well as a top-notch pitcher, and we like that about him, because it gives us one more reason to find him, as he likes to say, trustworthy. If you’d like to discover more R.A. for yourself, as I did, he’ll be signing copies of Wherever […] |
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