The game the Mets just lost is the kind of game I’ve come to associate with the post-humidor Coors Field: a quiet succumbing, like getting hugged by a python that squeezes a tiny bit more each time you exhale, so that little by little everything goes black. The game starts too late, ends too late, […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Capuano, Coors Field, David Wright, Injuries, Josh Thole, Rockies, Willie Harris I’m going to the tavern, Johnny. If there’s anything I can do for y’there, let me know. Guy walks into a bar. Says, “give me something special — something you don’t usually have.” Bartender says, “how about a Mets win?” Guy says, “you give me that, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, McFadden's, Mike Nickeas, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw, Warmth Nothing like a little desperation and a helpful handful of Fredi Gonzalez to right your ship, or at least make your plane ride home from Atlanta a damn sight more pleasant than anything about your life has been in more than a week. Was it desperate to move Josh Thole into the two-hole? It certainly wasn’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chris Capuano, Dillon Gee, Fredi Gonzalez, Josh Thole, Managing, R.A. Dickey, Terry Collins, Winning Even for my baseball-obsessed family, it was a wall-to-wall day. Saturday began with the annual Little League Parade, an exercise in genial chaos in which a rainbow of teams assemble on a block of 1st Street whose residents I imagine make sure to be out of town this particular weekend, then march down 7th Avenue to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn, Carlos Beltran, Chris Capuano, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins As more and more Mets crowd into Port St. Lucie just long enough for it to be exciting before it becomes amazingly tedious, here’s what I don’t get: The Mets have four — four! — alliterative pitchers in camp, and none of them has been issued an alliterative uniform number. According to the spring roster Adam […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alliteration, Blaine Boyer, Boof Bonser, Chris Capuano, D.J. Carrasco, Mets Marketing, Spring Training, Taylor Tankersley, Uniform Numbers A pal asked me the other day how I felt about the Mets’ offseason, and I said I was happy. “But of course,” I added, “there’s accepting the fact that nothing much is going to happen.” Fiscal responsibility is a laudable thing after a run of stupidity: It isn’t just Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez that […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Hope, Omar Minaya, Sandy Alderson The Mets have signed two low-risk, low-budget, low-profile pitchers on whom only the truly prescient were concentrating highly prior to the announcement of their unforeseen acquisitions. One is former Rockie Taylor Buchholz, who not long ago underwent Tommy John surgery. The other is former Brewer Chris Capuano, who also not long ago underwent Tommy John […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alliteration, Boof Bonser, Chris Capuano, PItching, Searing Hot Stove Excitement, Taylor Buchholz |
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