I have to confess that after the Giants finished subjecting Hisanori Takahashi to every indignity short of drowning him in San Francisco Bay I exiled this game to radio and the occasional look-in, if only to save my own sanity. I registered the Mets’ basically cosmetic comeback, noting that it was just numerically sufficient to […]
 
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. |
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 Well, we will do that, but not quite yet. (I think I just interrupted an interruption.) First, let’s go back to last night. Bases loaded, one out in the sixth, Tigers up 6-5, David Wright at the plate, and I was sure the Mets were about to at least tie the game and likely take the […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hope, No-Hitters, Team History, Triple Plays, Twins Stephen Strasburg is baseball’s best pitcher. Not just now, but forever. I know it’s true because he pitched seven sensational innings Tuesday night and Bob Costas’s drool seeped through my television screen while it happened. As Strasburg struck out fourteen Pirates in seven innings, Costas all but dug up the late Walter Johnson just for […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Hope, Lastings Milledge, Stephen Strasburg So perhaps I’ve been unfair, and the Mets had a Plan B for their starting pitching all along: “If, somehow, John Maine’s chronic injuries don’t disappear and Oliver Perez doesn’t stop pitching like Oliver Perez, we’ll just substitute a knuckleballer who’s a dead ringer for the Cowardly Lion and a 35-year-old who had a good […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Grover Powell, Hisanori Takahashi, Hope, Plan B Not so long ago, an off-day for the Mets was secretly a little bit welcome. But that was before Ike Davis rolled away the stone from Citi Field and commanded that the Spirit of 2006 come forth — and be quick about it, dammit. (What’s that? Putting too much pressure on the rookie? Don’t know […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Hope, Insane Biblical Metaphors, Jeff Francoeur, Jon Niese, Phillies It’s great to be young and a Met, Ike Davis could tell you after his most successful major league debut Monday night. The 23-year-old first baseman was the toast of Citi Field from the moment he showed up wearing No. 42. If ever anybody stood out in a mononumeric crowd, it was this kid who […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Cautionary Tales, Chris Jones, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Great Starts, Hope, Ike Davis, Mark Clark, Mike Jacobs Every year I swear I’m done with seeing Opening Day live — it’s generally miserable weather and I’m so wired that the wisest thing is for me to work out my neuroses sitting at the computer and on the couch. But every year I hear the siren call: The Mets are back, doing their jobs […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Hope, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day This falls under the heading of Things I’d Dearly Like to Be Proved Wrong About, but I suspect the dominant storyline of the 2010 Mets will be how long it takes even the most optimistic among us to concede that the team isn’t going anywhere. Imagine I could erase all memory of 2009 baseball from your […] The Mets, it was established when they were established, represented the New Breed. Their fans were descended from a tradition of Giants and Dodgers, but they — we — were something else altogether. We were not the past. We were the present and, by implication, the future. We were the stuff of 1962 when 1962 […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Charlie Neal, Choo Choo Coleman, George Altman, Hope, Moment of Silence, Negro League Mets, Sammy Drake, Team History, Willie Mays |
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