Sunday afternoon found me driving a rental car through deteriorating weather from Boston to New York, listening to the Mets try to salvage a game from the Marlins and their recently-civilian manager. The Mets were trying to escape their Miami enemies and what the weather would do to departures at New York’s airports. Between these two […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Padres, Ruben Tejada, West Coast Trips I love those interludes when a given Met can do no wrong. Wilmer Flores is in smack in the midst of one of them right now. It is his golden hour. Nobody’s calling him a stiff after the last two games against the Phillies. I still think he looks stiff in the field, but has he […] What are the Mets historically on the field of play if not outstanding pitching, reliable defense and frustrating offense whose capability for power and speed emerges mostly in sporadic fashion? This is their personality profile through the years. Some seasons the composition varies, but this is what one has been conditioned to expect if things […] A laugher after a long stretch of laughees? Turns out it makes for some complicated emotions. After the Mets scored a lone run early, I sourly thought, “Well Jacob deGrom, there’s your offense.” I also thought that our long-legged, long-haired rookie of the year in recovery looked a lot better than he had in recent outings. It […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Big Innings, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Wilmer Flores Hang with ’em. It was one of the first bits of baseball advice I gave Joshua to pass along to the little figures on the TV who can’t hear us. Blasted a ball up the gap that the right fielder barely speared at a dead run? Hang with ’em. Laser beam perfectly intersected by the apex of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rizzo, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Johnny Monell, Jon Lester, Kris Bryant, Lucas Duda, Wrigley Field The Mets won a game tonight that was a little snoozy, frankly. Jacob deGrom was pretty good, being more inclusive with the change-ups he’d left out of his repertoire in his last two starts. Kevin Plawecki came out during the game’s key at-bat by gigantic Orioles slugger Chris Davis and gave deGrom a little pep talk, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Daniel Murphy, Dilson Herrera, Jacob deGrom, Willie Montanez Winning streaks end, from the innumerable one-gamers to the historic 11-gamers. One day we’ll have an even longer one. It’ll end too. There are all sorts of ways to lose a ballgame — insane Gotterdammerungs that end with one team barely standing, nail-biters that don’t go your way, slothful snoozefests that never get started, relievers-hiding-under-the-stands fiascos […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bernie Williams, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Mark Teixeira, Michael Pineda, Subway Series, Willie Mays, Yankees When I fell asleep last night, the first-place Mets had won their seventh in a row and held the best record in the National League. When I woke up this morning, the still first-place Mets had still won their seventh in a row and still held the best record in the National League. So this isn’t […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Buddy Carlyle, Carlos Torres, Dee Gordon, G. Gordon Liddy, Jacob deGrom, Marlins In the first couple of weeks of April, emotions are subject to the perils of small sample size just like everything else. Win and you feel like your team is a lock to win 125 games, with various newcomers locks to hit .400, slug 50 homers, retire every tough lefty and turn every double play. Lose, and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Fans, Home Opener, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer, Odubel Herrera, Phillies, Rod Kanehl “Bobby Knight told me this, ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words, a good offense wins.” Pitching and defense are splendid, except when they’re deployed against you. Jordan Zimmermann and three National relievers outpitched Jacob deGrom and Rafael […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jordan Zimmermann, Lineups, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryan Zimmerman |
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