In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your […]
 
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. |
 16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling By about the fifth inning or so it was clear that the only way to capture this Bataan Death March of a game was chronologically, as fear ebbed and flowed and was overtaken by exhaustion. If you have trouble fixing just when something happened or recalling what sparked some outburst from me, rest assured that […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bobby Valentine, Extra Innings, Gary Cohen, Greg Dobbs, Hatred, Jack McKeon, Jose Reyes, Marlins, Nick Evans, Ronny Paulino, Soilmaster Stadium Contrary to what you may glean from accounts of tonight’s game, some good things did happen in Philadelphia: 1. Ruben Tejada went two for three and crashed into the tarp to make a terrific running catch. Yes, this is the same Ruben Tejada who deserved half of an ugly error yesterday against the Brewers. I think […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Cliff Lee, Debacles, Dillon Gee, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Ryota Igarashi, Terry Collins Stephanie and I spent Saturday with the Mets and with the Stems. The Mets are the Mets. The Stems are the opposite of the Mets, and they were embodied not by the victorious visiting Milwaukee Brewers but by two people who are the opposite of fans of the Mets. Let’s call them Mr. and Mrs. Stem. That […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acela Club, Angel Pagan, Brewers, Family, Frankie Rodriguez, Jason Isringhausen, Josh Thole, Stems 1) Bottom of the ninth, Mets losing, Wright leads off. Grounds to short. Takes a nice play from Ramirez, but he’s out pretty easily. With that, I’ve decided, “Let’s just get this over with. The trains are all screwy as it is thanks to the storm that unleashed hail the size of hockey pucks on […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Daniel Murphy, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Sudden Changes of Fortune I like hellos. I appreciate goodbyes. Those are the two interpersonal ceremonies I stand on. Hellos aren’t hard to come by. You’re seeing somebody as planned, you say hello. You’re seeing somebody for the first time in a long time, you say hello. You’re meeting somebody for the first time ever, you say hello. Granted, you […] Perhaps only somebody who has spent the past fifteen months immersed in every box score of every game the Mets have ever won can truly appreciate the absurdity of absolutist statements along the lines of, “The Mets have never done anything like this!” The Mets have absolutely done things like what they’re doing during this Interleague […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Angel Pagan, Hitting, Hot Streaks, Ronny Paulino, Team History In one of those misbegotten seasons when Daniel Murphy doesn’t leave too soon on Jason Bay’s sacrifice fly but Angel Pagan forgets to brush a foot over second, Pagan is out at first before Murphy gets home — and Murphy likely leaves too soon anyway. But the whole thing is moot because Bay strikes out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Capuano, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Jason Bay, Reluctance, Willie Harris Remember Angel Pagan? Me neither. Just kidding. Of course I remember Angel Pagan. Angel Pagan was the Mets’ center fielder before Jason Pridie. Pagan was pretty good at one point, I vaguely recall. Finished in the Top 10 in triples among National League batters two years in a row. You know who else hit a lot of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Young, Dillon Gee, Jason Pridie, Justin Turner, Mike O'Connor, Ronny Paulino, Wally Pipp Well, at least the Mets showed me something tonight. After Tuesday night’s slow-motion slide down the avalanche, I could barely work up indignation over the actual game — that was saved for my fears about what might be behind some curiously hasty decision-making. The Mets were bland and bad and I was uncomfortably close to numb […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Awfulness, Dallas Green, Haplessness, Horribleness, Ineptitude, Jose Reyes, Patheticness, Stupidity |
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