Once in a while, particularly in a season that’s wandered dutifully into its gone-to-hell portion, the Mets will play a game that, like a piece of black, volcanic glass in Andy Dufresne’s favorite Maine hayfield, has no earthly business on their ledger. It will be tense, it will be tight, it will be gripping…even if […]
 
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 |  Chris Young, Jay Bruce, Josh Edgin, Mat Latos, Scoreless Games, The Shawshank Redemption The Mets scored nine runs Thursday afternoon. Really? They scored nine runs one night after leaving everybody on in San Francisco but Tony Bennett. Thursday they had one fewer baserunner than they did Wednesday but crossed the plate seven more times despite hitting one less homer — or zero. And they won both games. REALLY!?! Ronny […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Dogma, Herbert Hoover, Jordany Valdespin, Melky Cabrera, Ronny Cedeno, T-shirts, Terry Collins From The Lesser-Known Haikus and Other Poetry of Miguel Batista, Vol. 4: I throw a baseball Like Jon Niese the night before, Chris Young was good — one bad pitch in six innings, and he even contributed a double. Yes, that third time through the opposing order […] When the Mets receive a really good start, as they did on Tuesday night, or plate a whole lot of runs, as they did on Tuesday night — or if they do both (Tuesday night again) — then they’re pretty damn unbeatable. I guess you could say that for any club in receipt of those […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2012 Mets, Chris Young, Cliff Lee, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fan Instinct, Miguel Batista, Relief Pitching, Tim Byrdak The more you watch baseball and the more you mature as a person, the less you are inclined to blithely dismiss the people who play the game in a glib, pejorative fashion. For example, it would have been shallow and unfair of me to have thought, in 2011, “My god, Chris Capuano and Chris Young […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Chris Young, Perceptions, West Coast Trips OK, first of all: Ouch. We had the bastards … or so it seemed. Going into the game, I was nervous about Chris Young’s fly-ball tendencies given where fly balls hit by the Yankees tend to land, as last night’s Cano/A-Rod/Andruw barrage demonstrated. I didn’t have to be: Young was great, stifling the Yankees through six innings […] It’s not a good sign when you miss nearly all of the Subway Series, then are relieved that your team has an off-day. I was at my 25th high-school reunion over the weekend, and so the Debacle in the Bronx was reduced to occasional bleary, baleful glowers at my phone, with the exception of a couple […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jordany Valdespin, Keith Hernandez, Tropicana Field 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 Mike Pelfrey’s ERA is 15.63. He’ll get another start tomorrow. And another one four days after that. And so on for a reasonable distance into the future. Blaine Boyer’s ERA is 10.80. He threw 119 pitches this year. His Mets career is presumably over: He was designated for assignment after yesterday’s debacle, a 3-2 Mets lead […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Booing, Chris Young, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Jason Marquis If I hadn’t recognized the onslaught of orange by sight, my posterior would have know that texture of plastic anywhere. It was a 100% genuine Shea Stadium seat, one of four aligned against the front window of the Pine Restaurant at the Holiday Inn LaGuardia on 114th Street. Positioned as it was, it meant that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Hitting Pitchers, Mets Fan Philosophy, Phillies, Pitchers Hitting, Shea Stadium |
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