I will not read too much into this afternoon’s Mets’ 11-0 thrashing of the Nationals.
I will not read too much into Jenrry Mejia’s stunning seven shutout innings.
I will not read too much into Juan Lagares’s Cesar Cedeño impression.
I will not read too much into Daniel Murphy demonstrating enough clout in Washington to end sequestration.
I will […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, Bob Gibson, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Sequestration (Before moving on to our usual fun and games, our deepest thoughts and absolute best wishes go out to Shannon Forde, one of the true shining lights of the Mets organization and a great friend to the blogging community, as she battles to beat Stage IV breast cancer. Please visit Hope Shines For Shannon and […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Collin McHugh, David Wright, Jenrry Mejia, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, September, Shannon Forde, T-shirts The Mets’ playoff chances are dead, but after two months without a pulse the team itself is alive. No, it doesn’t matter. But it’s still nice to see — baseball is a far better companion when your team not only wins but plays with a little panache and offers you some hope for the future. David Wright […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Ed Kranepool, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia Apologies to anyone who wanted a late-night recitation of Metly things — your correspondent fell asleep somewhere between the conclusion of the game and the beginning of the chronicling. Honestly, it was the proper reaction to the one of the longer, more pedestrian, less elegant baseball games you’ll see: terrible pitching, bad baserunning, lousy fielding. Particularly […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda The interesting part of the first game of Chipper Jones’s farewell to Citi Field and Mets fans? It was over long before the teams took the field. The Mets lost, 3-0, doing absolutely nothing with bats in their hands. The pitching was good — Jon Niese and Jenrry Mejia made a bad pitch each, and […] When Jenrry Mejia clutched some indeterminate part of his upper body and walked unhappily off the mound, I just stared at the TV. It could be nothing — when a young pitcher whose arm is potentially worth millions does anything odd on the mound, the catcher rears up, the trainer double-times it to the mound, the […] Expression of resigned exasperation with latest result. Acknowledgement that result doesn’t matter at this stage of season, yet it is always frustrating to encounter this sort of result. Link to article spelling out game details. Snarky aside. Key example of what went wrong in game. Assertion of saving grace, focusing on how this was just one game and player who […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Discouraging Developments, Embarrassment, Jeff Wilpon, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Luis Castillo, Media, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, public relations, Roy Halladay, Sean Green, September, Walter Reed In my last job I shared an office with Steve, an Englishman who was a passionate fan of Liverpool. Liverpool, Steve explained, was the football equivalent of the Mets — badly run, generally luckless and often an object of derision for other football fans. Steve loved them as much as I love the Mets, and […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Mike Nickeas, Ruben Tejada, Youth In this new post-realization era of 2010 Mets baseball — in which we fully realize we’re toast — 7-6 losses of games which we once led 3-0 should seem, as R.A. Dickey might eloquently put it, inconsequential. For the big picture, sure, but in terms of leading by three and losing by one, it’s pretty […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake DeWitt, Carlos Marmol, Edward Hopper, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, R.B. Greaves, Steve Goodman, Tim Leary, Tim McCarver, Tin Tin, Wrigley Field, Xavier Nady Not so long ago, the Mets losing two in a row was something that happened at least twice a week, and three times if the week were particularly unlucky. Now, it’s vaguely shocking. Waitaminute, we lost? But we’re great! We didn’t come back? Our starting pitching wasn’t dominant? Everything didn’t turn out OK? In truth, Johan Santana […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Omar Minaya, Subway Series, Yankees |
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