Did I want a pencil, the fella who sold me my program/scorecard asked me. Since the pencil was free and the paper bag with handles was a nickel, of course I said yes to the pencil with no eraser and not even NEW YORK METS written across it. Rule No. 1 of ballpark retail customer […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cardinals, Citi Field, Doubleheaders, Jake Reed, Pencils, Splits, T-shirts, Tom Seaver Statue, Trevor Williams Yoan Lopez came up and in on Nolan Arenado in the eighth inning of Wednesday afternoon’s almost incidental Mets loss to the Cardinals. Like what Shawn Estes threw in the greater geographic vicinity of Roger Clemens’s backside twenty years ago, Lopez’s pitch didn’t touch the batter he was facing. Unlike with Estes, Lopez’s pitch did […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Baseball Etiquette, Buck Showalter, Cardinals, Hit By Pitch, J.D. Davis, Kabuki, Nolan Arenado, Roger Clemens, Shawn Estes, Yoan Lopez Pitchers’ duels are one of the earliest tests of budding baseball fandom — dull to the casual observer who wants action and doesn’t get why those around him are oohing and aahing over hitters swinging and missing or just looking flustered at balls zipping from hurlers’ hands to places they weren’t expected to wind up. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Comebacks, Dom Smith, Giovanny Gallegos, Jeff McNeil, Joey Cora, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Miles Mikolas, Pitchers' Duels, Robinson Cano, Trevor May, Tyler O'Neill The Mets have guaranteed they won’t win 90 games in 2021. They’ve guaranteed it quite a bit by their play in the second half, but they clinched not reaching a win total generally associated with playoff participation on Monday night by losing at Citi Field to the Cardinals, 7-0, and nailing down their 73rd loss. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Cardinals, September, When Pigs Fly, Yadier Molina True confession time: Your recapper earns no accolades for being an attentive student of the game Wednesday night, dozing off before the conclusion of Game 1 (“Did they lose?” I asked Emily when roused) and remaining groggy and befuddled for a good chunk of Game 2. Just as well, since I figure we don’t particularly […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Cardinals, Doubleheaders, Ghosts, Jonathan Villar, Jordan Yamamoto, Kevin Pillar, Marcus Stroman, Patrick Mazeika, Paul DeJong, Tomas Nido So that was complicated. The Mets’ Monday night game against the Cardinals didn’t look like a particularly good bet, not with old friend Adam Wainwright on the mound and Nolan Arenado and Paul DeJong lurking to do what they do. Not to mention the Mets put J.D. Davis on the IL and didn’t have Brandon Nimmo […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Reyes, Cardinals, Chili Davis, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Nolan Arenado, Tomas Nido The best part about the Nationals sweeping the Cardinals in the NLCS, aside from the Cardinals being swept, is it left us plenty of time to get around to extending congratulations to our division rival on advancing to its first World Series. Washington won its first National(s) League pennant on Tuesday night, a week ahead […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Postseason, Braves, Cardinals, Division Rivals, Expos, Grudges, Marlins, Nationals, NL East League Champions, Phillies, Pirates, Sportsmanship (Sort Of) When the League Championship Series are over, there is a certainty that the more sporting among us will feel compelled to say something nice about at least one team we don’t care for. Whoever emerges between the Nationals and Cardinals we’re not naturally inclined to praise. Half of the ALCS already potentially looms as a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 NLCS, 2019 Postseason, Animus, Astros, Cardinals, League Championship Series, Nationals, The Malachi Crunch, Villains, Yadier Molina Baseball’s League Division Series round is completing its 25th iteration today and tomorrow with winner-takes-some drama. St. Louis at Atlanta. Washington at Los Angeles. Tampa Bay at Houston. Lose and go home, win and go on. That’s not winner taking all, but it’s plenty of stakes. That’s stakes that — save for the 1981 postseason […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Postseason, Astros, Braves, Brewers, Cardinals, Day Games, Dodgers, League Division Series, Nationals, Rays We know from starters, emergency starters, long relievers, middle men, lefty specialists, setup men and closers. In 2018, thanks mostly to the machinations of the Tampa Bay Rays, we were introduced to something called the opener. Jason Vargas filled none of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Barking Elbows, Cardinals, Chris Flexen, Edwin Diaz, Injured List, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Justin Wilson, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Yadier Molina |
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