“You have to respect a ballplayer who’s just tryin’ to finish the season,” Annie Savoy told us after she learned Crash Davis left her at dawn for an opening at Asheville in the South Atlantic League. Crash had a goal: minor league home run No. 247, the record for such things in the world 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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Bull Durham, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Individual Goals, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Pitcher Wins June 3, 2017, was a fine Saturday night for the New York Mets, who beat the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field, 4-2, with, Lucas Duda at first, Neil Walker at second, Curtis Granderson in center, Jay Bruce around in right, René Rivera catching, and Addison Reed pitching the eighth and ninth innings to record his […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Curtis Granderson, De Facto Designated Hitter, Dominic Smith, Kevin Plawecki, M&M's Sweet Seats, Rafael Montero, Rene Rivera, Youth of America The Mets’ flaccid, meaningless loss to the Marlins was prelude to the real news of the day: the trade of Curtis Granderson and cash to the Dodgers for the curious return of a player to be named later … or cash. The sheer Wilponitude of that transaction is irritating — to my admittedly inexpert eye this […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Cotton, Curtis Granderson, Farewells, Ghosts, Kevin McGowan, Terrel Hansen Statistically, it didn’t matter that the Yankees came to Citi Field from the Bronx to complete their Subway Series sweep. It mattered that they came from near the top of their division. The Mets versus any serious contender this year has been almost uniformly bad news. Talk about hewing to your weight class. The lightweight 2017 […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Futile Comebacks, Grand Slams, Luis Severino, Raul Gonzalez, Reds, Rob Schneider, Steven Matz, Strength of Schedule, Subway Series, Yankees It sure gets orange early out beyond center field on the Met home dates The 7 Line Army comes to play. It’s looked that way from a distance. I can report it’s even more orange up close, radiating brightly from all those personalized jerseys sporting all those last names, nicknames and inside jokes. Good. Citi […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Judge, Bad Relief Pitching, Mets Third Basemen, Orange, Subway Series, The 7 Line Army, Third Base, Travis d'Arnaud At this stage of a lost season, it’s no longer about the standings or even particularly about the score. Baseball becomes a game of individual accomplishments, and the roster a collection of atomized pieces to be assessed for some future mosaic. Keep this one, dump that one, maybe we can swap that one for something […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Ballparks, Dominic Smith, New Yankee Stadium As SNY spoke with Dave Mlicki Monday night about claiming first blood in a Mets-Yankees tilt that mattered, I found myself more than a little distracted. Mlicki had blanked the Yanks 20 years ago? No, that couldn’t be right. Surely it was five years ago. OK, maybe 10. But nope, you could look it up. The Mets and Yankees […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Rafael Montero, Subway Series, Yankees, Yoenis Cespedes When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of hitting. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 6-2, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1994 Mets, Chris Flexen, Curtis Granderson, Michael Conforto, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Odubel Herrera, Scores, Team History Steven Matz looked all right for a change for four innings Saturday night; looked a little too much like Jonathon Niese in the fifth inning; and never made it out of the sixth. Unlike Niese, the Mets’ latest vexingly underperforming lefty stalwart didn’t blame anybody but himself for his shortfall. He never does. Yoenis Cespedes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Amed Rosario, Chasen Bradford, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes One of the things I’ve enjoyed about this Mets era — 2015, 2016, 2017 — is the sense that even when these guys aren’t quite playing good ball, they know how to be good ballplayers, particularly good teammates. That probably comes from a proliferation of decent fellas playing the game for a decent interval. Live […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Debuts, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Hansel Robles, Joe Orsulak, Met Debuts, Veteran Presence |
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