Out in Milwaukee, the Mets played a baseball game that was quietly unsettling for a good chunk of the evening: Curtis Granderson led off with a home run and the Mets kept piling up base runners against a wild, ineffective Jimmy Nelson, but — in recent Metsian fashion — the protagonists failed to deliver 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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Kay, Draft, Fans, Hope, Justin Dunn, Steven Matz The nearly 150-year-old “national pastime,” as baseball continues to bill itself despite indications of declining popularity relative to other sporting endeavors, still has some surprises lurking in its venerable bones, none more unpredictable than those the New York Mets unveiled to a largely disapproving audience at PNC Park Wednesday night. The cast of the New York Mets […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jameson Taillon, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins, Theatrical Performances, Ty Kelly, Wilmer Flores Mets sucked, grounding out and then grounding out again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again. I’d tell you more about the first game but a judge ordered me not to. Then after a robust 25 minutes in which nothing bad happened, […] We talk up great starting pitching, we crave great starting pitching, we built this Citi on great starting pitching, so when we are surrounded by extraordinary starting pitching, we are compelled to celebrate it…even if not all of it is necessarily Mets starting pitching. The Mets took part in a fine game Sunday. The wrong part, […] Let’s just make this clear: Saturday afternoon’s Mets-Marlins game was garbage. The Mets put the leadoff man on in seven of the first eight innings (and eight of nine overall) but somehow managed to be down 3-2 with just five outs remaining. Bartolo Colon was crummy but mostly got away with it because the Marlins couldn’t […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hatred, Jeffrey Loria, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Marlins, Matt Reynolds, Michael Conforto, Wilmer Flores It’s gonna be another summer without David Wright. Six to eight weeks of rest, and then they’ll see. If you’re like me, you may have had an odd reaction to the news — a weird argument between head and heart. Head sniffed that a .226 average, bushels of strikeouts and throwing woes at third didn’t seem impossible to […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Wilmer Flores The Chicago White Sox were the sore thumb of my Logging for twenty seasons, ever since it was decided National League teams should play American League teams for something less than all the marbles. Whoever the junior circuit sent to Shea Stadium, I dutifully saw at least once, entering the encounter in the steno book […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, Extra Innings, Interleague Play, Jacob deGrom, James Loney, Jerry Cram, Jerry Sands, Jon Matlack, Logan Verrett, Matt Albers, Mike Piazza, Relief Pitching, Rene Rivera, Slumps, Todd Frazier, Todd Hundley, Ty Kelly, White Sox Long night, short turnaround. Let’s rip the Band-Aid off, shall we? In the bottom of the fifth, Steven Matz did something strange: he got his helmet and bat and headed for the on-deck circle, apparently all-business. Which was fine, except his spot in the order wasn’t up — it was several batters away. He wasn’t even close. Matz […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, James Loney, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Matz, Tyler Saladino |
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