Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to happen. It usually does — 24 separate occasions over the past 19 seasons are evidence that you weren’t concocting worst-case scenarios […]
 
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. |
 18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Hockey, Jarret Cosart, Juan Lagares, Marlins, WHOA! Wins I’ve been thinking of this one game. I was in Connecticut. The Mets were in Atlanta. They were playing the Braves on a Saturday night and Dillon Gee wasn’t very good. Since that game I’ve driven back to New York, worked my butt off for three days and nights, flown to California where I spent three days at a Star […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, Curtis Granderson, Dillon Gee, Fans, Juan Lagares, Winning Streaks In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we notice how Met turnover subtly became Met stability. There was an article in the Washington Post the other day that fascinated me. It informed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Longevity, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Team History Good morning. In case you missed Tuesday night’s late Mets game in Oakland, the previously slumping A’s won by a comfortable margin; the Mets collected more than their customary four hits, but to no avail; Travis d’Arnaud homered with nobody on; Dillon Gee struggled through five and two-thirds innings; Gonzalez Germen wasn’t particularly effective in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Gonzalez Germen, Sleepy Performances, Travis d'Arnaud How is it that a lineup loaded with ballplayers who jammed the box score of a World Series clincher can appear so routinely beatable? The dichotomy in perception probably has something to do with a temporal gap, what with that particular World Series having taken place in 2008 and the beating in question proceeding in […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dale Thayer, Darren Bragg, Dillon Gee, Gary Bennett, Jimmy Rollins, Lucas Duda, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Ryan Howard, Stability, Taylor Teagarden, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption Round numbers are all the rage these days. Tuesday night, the Mets put their 4,000th win in the books. Wednesday night, I scribbled my 600th game in the Log. That’s 600 official Mets games that have counted: regular-season and postseason, whether at Shea, Citi Field or one of eleven ballparks where I’ve rendezvoused with them on […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Homecomings, Milestones, Round Numbers There are nights when you love how much you love sports. And then there are nights like Wednesday when you prefer to drown your sporting sorrows in prime time soap operas. The Nets, who occasionally lift my spirits in spite of my knowing that eventually they will find a way to pull them down, mishandle them […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Josh Edgin, Kyle Farnsworth, Masahiro Tanaka, Nashville, Rafael Montero, Relief Pitching, Subway Series For a pleasant change, Bichette didn’t happen to the Mets on Sunday. Unlike the first three games of their just-contested four-game in Denver, the Rockies didn’t crumble all over our starting pitcher. Our starting pitcher was Dillon Gee. While other Mets starters have seen their best days or are no doubt striding toward them, Dillon […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Mad Men, Pitchers Hitting, Rockies |
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