You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never seen them win by before and there’s no telling if or when you’ll […]
 
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. |
 18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Aaron Sele, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Bonilla, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Granderson, Dave Magadan, Duke Snider, Harmonic Convergence, Irish Rovers, Jason Phillips, Jeremy Griffiths, Juan Samuel, Julio Machado, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Jacobs, Mike Marshall, Mike Pelfrey, Offensive Explosion, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tony Clark, Tracy Stallard, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes I’m not sure what game the Mets and Rockies were playing out there in Denver, but it sure didn’t look much like baseball. “Playing pinball,” Keith Hernandez blurted on a night he seemed alternately entertained and horrified by the bloodletting down there on the field. That’s pretty close, I suppose. Still, whatever the game was, I’m glad the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Coors Field, Curtis Granderson, Replay, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes For whatever reason, that game had loss written all over it the moment Jonathan Schoop hit Noah Syndergaard‘s worst pitch of the night over the fence. The Mets kept whacking away at the Orioles, but Syndergaard was gone (nearly 100 pitches on a soppingly hot night) and the bullpen was doing bullpen things, and you […] 50 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Hansel Robles, Noah Syndergaard Instead of settling an old score, the Orioles wound up losing by it to the Mets all over again. O’s, say, they could see. The O’s could see the first-place Mets coming. It was more twilight’s last gleaming than dawn’s early light, considering the overcast skies and 46-minute precautionary delay before a single pitch […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Francis Scott Key, Jacob deGrom, Orioles Hard to fathom that baseball grapples with a pace-of-game problem when a season that you could swear just started is almost three-quarters over. It goes quickly, doesn’t it? There are 44 games remaining in this one, not counting anything that gets added on for good behavior. You know it was a veritable five minutes ago that […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | August, Bobby Parnell, Long Season, Matt Harvey The good: A night after making solid contact but coming up short, Michael Conforto showed why he merits all the excitement, mashing a rising line drive off Charlie Morton that hissed over the fence above the Mo’s Zone. (Not sure it’s still called that; quite sure I don’t care.) That tied the game at 3 and […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Davidson, Charlie Morton, Daniel Murphy, Jon Niese, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Yoenis Cespedes After I got home and watched the replay, Michael Conforto’s one-on, two-out, ninth-inning drive to left-center proved ordinary. It was a deep fly ball but quite catchable, and sure enough Andrew McCutchen caught it to send Friday’s Mets-Pirates game to the tenth inning, knotted at one. From Row 21 of Section 109, however, it looked perfect. […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Arnold Hano, Bartolo Colon, Batting Practice, Bobby Parnell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Curtis Granderson, Frustration, J.A. Happ, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Leo Durocher, Michael Conforto, Pirates, Skid Rowe, Sparky Anderson, Terry Collins, Tim McCarver, Tyler Clippard, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to Flashback Friday, a dormant Faith and Fear in Flushing tradition revived this particular Friday in recognition of where we are now and how far we’ve come to get here. If you have been to Citi Field in 2015 and been at your seat just before the home team’s lineup is formally introduced, perhaps you’ve […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Flashback Friday, Memories, Montages In the early innings Thursday I tweeted out what I hoped would be reassuring counsel to Mets fans unhappy that we weren’t going to sweep four from the Rockies without a fair amount of work: Noah’s gonna be great, but he’s awfully young and still has some lumps to take. Even Norse gods need to […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Young Pitching Citi Field is loud, and it’s wonderful. I reflexively started to type “loud again,” then stopped myself. Because that wouldn’t have been true. Citi never has been loud. This is the first run of games in which the crowd is a factor, in which the buzz is focused on the field and the players are aware of […] |
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