We’re stuck in a season that’s either overdue to be part of a transition or is just a discouraging checkpoint amid an ongoing demolition. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) It’s been wearying, and after watching the Mets get swept by the Reds and mostly missing them nearly getting swept by the Braves, the last thing I wanted […]
 
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. |
 15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Hatred, Kevin Burkhardt, Yankees Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfalfa, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Henry Chadwick, Jeff Kent, Joanie Sommers, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Lucas Duda, Magic 8 Ball, Marlins, Savoir-Faire, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Streaks, Wade LeBlanc Please come to Denver Submitted for your approval…nah, scratch that. Who here would approve of anything the Mets did Tuesday night in the city that’s been their personal Twilight Zone for two decades? Not fans of the Mets. Certainly not fans of crisp, clean baseball. Perhaps fans of the Rockies, but honestly, those […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Gonzalez, Coors Field, David Nied, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young, Greg Burke, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Francis, Marlon Byrd, Michael Cuddyer, Rafael Betancourt, Rockies, Rod Serling, Ruben Tejada, Scott Atchison, Snow Congratulations to David Wright, named Mets captain after a distinguished, classy nine years on the field and the usual tatty nine weeks or so of Mets mini-drama, replacing what should have been a couple of hours behind closed doors. I was briefly amused by Wright’s decision not to wear a captain’s C, as if the Mets […] I’m David Wright My best’s what I’ll give This is a great honor My face is familiar David Wright as Mets captain? Don’t be silly. David Wright’s not a captain. David Wright’s an ambassador. David Wright puts the Mets’ best foot forward. David Wright makes everybody feel good about the Mets, including all those new Mets to whom he shows apartments, restaurants and the ropes. David Wright represents the Mets in other places, even […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, USF Bulls, World Baseball Classic The Mets have made what seems like a very good trade. But I hate that they’re making it. After David Wright was re-signed, I wrote that I was happy but not particularly celebratory — retaining Wright struck me as a no-brainer, the kind of thing a franchise in decent working order would of course do. Back […] 48 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Madoff, Media, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Travis d'Arnaud The Germans have their specialties: awesome board games, unhealthy food that repeats on you, whistle-worthy luxury cars, the occasional bid to cover the world in darkness. They’re also known for long, really useful compound words describing hard-to-summarize emotional states. The most famous one of these is Schadenfreude, best translated into English as HA HA THE YANKEES LOST. […] Prince (no relation) once referred to an electric word, life — “it means forever, and that’s a mighty long time,” he said. True enough. In my nearly half-century life, just the last fifth of it, I’ve seen four-year (Bay) and six-year (Santana) and seven-year (Beltran and, come to think of it, Piazza) deals all careen […] I don’t see much point in getting hackles raised over what’s said while a lucrative contract extension is up for grabs, because negotiations are an ends to a means, and the means are what’s meaningful in the end. Thus, when David Wright’s future as a Met went from glide path to word jumble in a […] |
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