Having ten days earlier properly commemorated the 50th anniversary of making Flushing my recurring personal destination, I opened my second half-century of going to Mets games Sunday afternoon by taking a left field Promenade Box eye’s view of The Great Justin Verlander proving effective enough to a) quell the Washington Nationals by a score of […]
 
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 |  Basketball, Beautiful Days for Ballgames, Billy Pierce, Conversations, Dilson Herrera, Eras, Football, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Pedro Borbon, Repurposing, Trade Deadline Nights like Tuesday, defined primarily by rain, futility and Jason Vargas, deserve to be evaluated not on how bad the Mets’ loss was mathematically, but how the elements that constitute the whole of the experience measure within the parameters of the carefully calibrated Jason Vargas Index. For those who […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Jason Vargas, Jason Vargas is an Awful Pitcher, Mets Hall of Fame, Rain Delays, Reds, Ryder Chasin, The Jason Vargas Index So the Jay Bruce era — you must’ve known I wasn’t going to call it Jon Niese 2.0 — is off to a roaring start. No thanks to Bruce himself, but that’s OK — Yoenis Cespedes needed a couple of days to acclimate too. Most of us, if suddenly transferred across the country to work for a […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejando De Aza, Dilson Herrera, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sandy Alderson, Travis d'Arnaud After paying just enough attention to Spring Training to notice the hitters aren’t necessarily behind the pitchers anymore — guys in Mets unis lost 14-9 on Saturday but won 11-0 on Sunday — I realize my anxieties are lagging behind my capacity for calm. That’s a very unusual March alignment. Starting shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera might miss […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, David Wright, Dilson Herrera, Eerie Calm, Goose Gossage, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Spring Training, Travis d'Arnaud, Travis Taijeron, Yoenis Cespedes I’m not sure what the point of this recap is. Just go read this one — because the Mets just replayed Friday’s game, down to the comedy of errors on a good bunt to third. Once again, the key figures were Ruben Tejada, pressed into service at an unnatural position, and the pitcher — then it […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Jonathon Niese, Michael Cuddyer, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson The bad taste of Friday night’s Mets disaster lingered into Saturday, with Twitter moaning and comment sniping and unhappiness all around. Fortunately, I thought, there’s another ballgame today. Because one of the least-celebrated but most important aspects of baseball is that winning fixes things. A crisp win is like a cleansing breeze that airs out everything and leaves […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Pierzynski, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Juan Lagares, Noah Syndergaard, Travis d'Arnaud This, too, was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been subconsciously groping for, the game embedded in our DNA. This was the game that signaled perhaps prosperity is neither illusory nor fleeting. This was the game that allowed us to quit looking over our shoulders to see if the worst was gaining […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Darrell Ceciliani, Dave Lemanczyk, Dillon Gee, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mike Foltynewicz, Paul Foytack, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller Bartolo Colon has 9 wins. Jeurys Familia has 18 saves. Those are some pretty cool numbers, even for our sophisticated statistical times. Wins have been discredited as a leading indicator of starting pitcher effectiveness and are all but useless for measuring anything a reliever does, but when the starter always earns the decision, I don’t think […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Torres, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Statistics, Tsuris So what kind of loss would you prefer? One where the Mets look flat and inoffensive and collect no hits at all, or one where the Mets collect lots of hits, but can’t pitch, field or run the bases so it doesn’t matter? What’s that? You’d like neither? Sorry, not on the menu. Unlike on Chris Heston‘s big […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Matt Harvey, Tommy John Surgery, Wilpons |
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