When you’re sending your ace of aces out to face the dregs of the dregs, you can’t help but have high hopes…high in the sky apple pie hopes. In this corner, we had the undefeated Matt Harvey, author of the best day (sometimes two days) of every week. In the other corner, there sat the […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1776, 2002 Mets, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dillon Gee, Freddie Galvis, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jonathan Papelbon, Matt Harvey, Mets Fan Instinct, Monty Python, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Ryan Howard How is it that a lineup loaded with ballplayers who jammed the box score of a World Series clincher can appear so routinely beatable? The dichotomy in perception probably has something to do with a temporal gap, what with that particular World Series having taken place in 2008 and the beating in question proceeding in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dale Thayer, Darren Bragg, Dillon Gee, Gary Bennett, Jimmy Rollins, Lucas Duda, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Stability, Taylor Teagarden, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption 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 […] In recent history, the Mets haven’t led the league in much, but they’ve been a powerhouse when it comes to excuses. Terry Collins would always sound philosophical when he noted the conditions, the weather, the late arrival, the flu, or whatever bogeyman had snuck in to sink its teeth into the Mets. It was never quite […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cole Hamels, Jonathon Niese, Phillies, Weather Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Cole Hamels, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Phillies The Mets no longer require extra innings. They make the regulation amount go on forever. In their first two games coming out of the All-Star break — one a hopeless blowout loss, the other a relatively mundane win — they donated more than seven hours to the baseball-starved denizens of Queens inside a span of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels, Gonzalez Germen, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Marlon Byrd, Zack Wheeler Games like these make you want to kiss the Mets logo smack between the “e” and the “t”…though maybe it would be more appropriate to kiss its “s,” considering it was Thursday’s tail end that made the whole thing so lovable. There were enough isolated incidents across the 8½ innings that preceded this happiest of endings […] You may recall that the one element Bobby Cox always lacked as he led the Braves through their almost endless divisional dynasty was a certifiable steel-toed, kick-ass closer. He was never able to hand the ball to a National League version of Mariano Rivera — not that there are too many of him lying around […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2010 Postseason, Alejandro Pena, Billy Wagner, Bobby Cox, Braves, Brooks Conrad, Cole Hamels, Craig Kimbrel, Frankie Rodriguez, Giants, Hisanori Takahashi, Jeff Reardon, John Smoltz, Juan Berenguer, Mariano Rivera, Relief Pitching, Tug McGraw There was a home run that became a triple that became an extended farce of a video review session that became a nagging left on base. There was, at last, a double followed by another double and those became a run. There was a no-hitter that unfortunately became a one-hitter, but ultimately stayed a one-hitter […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chin Hui-Tsao, Cole Hamels, Dual Complete Games, John Curtis, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Ray Sadecki, Team History, Umpiring, Video Review |
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