First things first: There are no statement games for teams that will finish under .500. If that applies to you, you’re not that good. You are by definition either a team that’s hopeless or one that needs to be different next year, meaning that no statement made will apply to the new crop of players […]
 
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. |
The Mets have lost six in a row for the first time all season and have fallen five games below .500 for the first time all season. It is said you shouldn’t necessarily trust everything you see out of a team in September, yet I find it surprising we didn’t see this kind of downward […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chase Utley, David Wright, Jerry Manuel, Losing Streak, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Slides, Typical R.A. Dickey’s initial preparations really paid off, eh? The knuckleballer’s erudition, real or imagined, reads even better when you can find his name among the National League leaders in Earned Run Average…which you now can. It wasn’t his earned runs allowed that were keeping him out until now, but rather his relatively few innings pitched, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abraham Nunez, David Wright, Ike Hampton, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Josh Thole, Ken Henderson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shane Halter, Team History, Tim Corcoran I love being a Mets fan, but I hate rooting for the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate supporting the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate investing any faith whatsoever in the Mets as a baseball team or as an organizational entity. But I do love being a […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Australia, Casey Stengel, Condescension Toward Customers, David Wright, Delusions of Contention, Futility, Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, McFadden's, Mess, Mets Fans, VIP Part 1: Friday Night Frights Went to see the Mets play ball. Lovely evening, and great company in my pals Wayne and Amanda, the latter a visitor and, horrible to say, a Yankee fan. (She was also a model guest — I didn’t once hear the number 27, an invocation of rings or a sentence ended […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Albert Pujols, Blogging, Carlos Beltran, Chip Hale, Citi Field, Dave Racaniello, David Wright, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Randy Niemann, Raul Valdes, Reporters Less news flash than point of fact: On Monday night, Justin Turner, a largely anonymous utility infielder with perhaps the most generic ballplayer name to grace a Met roster since 2004 catcher Tom Wilson arrived and departed, became the team’s 141st third baseman Monday when he replaced David Wright in the seventh inning of an […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Green, David Wright, Distractions from Drubbings, Don Zimmer, Justin Turner, Mets Third Basemen, Mike Pelfrey, Oliver Perez, Team History, Tom Wilson, Wilson Valdez You could have colored me the whitest shade of pale orange and blue when I saw Frankie “Release K-Rod Now” Rodriguez return to the mound in the bottom of the tenth inning to attempt to do with a one-run lead what he couldn’t do with a two-run lead in the bottom of the ninth inning. “I […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Darryl Hamilton, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, General Custer, Ideal Saves, Jay Payton, Jeff Francoeur, Jerry Manuel, Johan Santana, Managing, Phil Cuzzi, Plays That Don't Show Up in the Box Score, Relief Pitching, Streaks, Travis Ishikawa, Umpiring David Wright and Jose Reyes are All-Stars together for the third time in their careers. Once they were elected as a left side tandem in 2006, I would have assumed it would be an annual event. It became one in 2007. Then it stopped being one. David had to be named a last-minute reserve in […] Word is it was 99 in the shade at Citi Field Sunday, yet right here, it feels a bit like ’99 in the Shea: The Mets are hot on the Braves’ heels, Bobby Valentine is basking in the media’s glare and the Mets’ infield has been warming to its task with uncommon aplomb. Highly uncommon, but […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Al Moran, Amos Otis, Anderson Hernandez, Argenis Reyes, Best Infield Ever, Bobby Heise, Bobby Pfeil, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Craig Brazell, David Wright, Dick Smith, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Expectations, Gary Rajsich, Homegrown Mets, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jason Hartdke, Jeff Gardner, Jim Hickman, Joe Moock, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Ken Boswell, Kevin Collins, Marco Scutaro, Nick Evans, Rey Ordonez, Rich Puig, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Salty Parker, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Tim Foli, Ty Wigginton, Wayne Garrett, Wes Westrum From approximately 4:22 PM until 10:31 PM Eastern Daylight Time, I rooted for a first-place team, albeit one whose claim was staked temporarily and by a mere two percentage points. Still, what a wonderful six hours and nine minutes it was…particularly the part before 7:10. Then the lights went out. The lights went out on the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Angel Pagan, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, First Place, Jerry Seinfeld, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey |
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