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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. |
On Monday night, the Mets got not quite enough of what they needed and a bit too much of what they didn’t. While that may sound like a description of any given one-run loss, this one struck me as quintessentially Metsian. I know I’ve seen it before, again and again. Their starting pitcher could have gotten […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Age, Cynicism, Ike Davis, LaTroy Hawkins, Loss, Marlon Byrd, Shaun Marcum Don’t look now, but your woebegone New York Mets are winners of three of four. They’re hot! My recent advice stands: Find something else to do with your summer, with the possible exception of every fifth day, and let the Christmas carolers be a reminder to check on the team’s financial condition. That, more than anything […] I’m picturing Mets marketing types watching the games from St. Louis and Chicago this week. They see the deep-seated allegiance in the home crowds set against the respective backdrops of Cardinalia and Cubbishness. There are symbols and there are statues and there is total engagement between the fans and the franchises, one of which has […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Mets Marketing, Shortsighted Decisions They walked on Ninth Avenue, with Harvey and the two friends in front, his sister and her husband behind them. When they arrived at the restaurant, his sister was laughing about what had just happened on the street. “Do you know how many people just did the second take on you?” she said to her […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gerry Arrigo, Harveysteria, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Sid Fernandez, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver When the Mets interrupt one of their concentrated spans of ineptitude with a rare show of net-competence — such as that displayed Thursday afternoon at Busch Stadium in an unlikely 5-2 victory over the exalted St. Louis Cardinals of Keith Hernandez’s fundamentally sound fantasies — I am moved to recall an exchange from the 1984 […] Instead of kicking a ball into foul territory and failing to cover home plate, Scott Rice found a way to lose more efficiently by throwing a wild pitch. John Buck got caught off second base when he inexplicably thought a lineout to the outfield was up the gap falling in, and got thrown out inexplicably trying […] Terrible pitching, crappy fielding, nonexistent hitting, a stupid media sideshow that will be an overstuffed brouhaha tomorrow — just another checkpoint in the Mets’ freefall. There’s no point analyzing this game. There’s no point analyzing this team. The franchise has been starved of money until it’s baseball’s equivalent of a North Korean labor camp, with Bud Selig […] The Mets are bad and will continue to be bad for the rest of the season. That I’ve basically made my peace with. They have the second-worst record in the National League. Since winning seven of their first eleven games, they’ve lost 17 of 24. Nobody’s scored fewer runs among N.L. teams dating back to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Cardinals, Dae-Sung Koo, Gabe Paul, Jeremy Hefner, Losing, Rick Ankiel, Roger Kahn, Sandy Alderson, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Ty Wigginton, Zack Wheeler All right, people. We’ve all get better things to do with what’s left of our day than complain about this listless horrible team. Start reading and we’ll rip this Band-Aid off quick as we can. Matt Harvey: He was clearly struggling — the fastball velocity was down and the location was off, leading to very few […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Hudgens, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler |
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