This, too, was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been subconsciously groping for, the game embedded in our DNA. This was the game that signaled perhaps prosperity is neither illusory nor fleeting. This was the game that allowed us to quit looking over our shoulders to see if the worst was gaining […]
 
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 |  Comebacks, Darrell Ceciliani, Dave Lemanczyk, Dillon Gee, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mike Foltynewicz, Paul Foytack, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Bartolo Colon has 9 wins. Jeurys Familia has 18 saves. Those are some pretty cool numbers, even for our sophisticated statistical times. Wins have been discredited as a leading indicator of starting pitcher effectiveness and are all but useless for measuring anything a reliever does, but when the starter always earns the decision, I don’t think […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bartolo Colon, Carlos Torres, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Statistics, Tsuris The other day I visited my ophthamologist for one of those comprehensive examinations that includes drops in both eyes. Once it’s over and you step outside, you basically enter a Soundgarden video. Everything is ridiculously bright and slightly surreal. It’s why, in the event that you don’t carry shades, they give you a Rollens, not […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bandwagons, Gratuitous Shot at Jimmy Rollins, Jayson Werth, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Max Scherzer, Opthamalogists, Soundgarden 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 Children’s voices blended into an angelic choir. Or as angelic as it gets in Queens. Oh, how they caroled. “It’s the most wonderful time of the year,” they sang as one. They did so inside a ballpark, inside December. Heresy! Sacrilege! What are they teaching these kids at PS 19, PS 57, PS 89, PS 140, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Mets Holiday Party, Sandy Alderson I hope everybody had a good Labor Day. Which is another way of saying I hope you didn’t waste a perfectly good holiday witnessing whatever it was the Mets spent their afternoon doing. Terry Collins said it wasn’t a big-league baseball game, and he was right. The Marlins were horrible too, with Marcell Ozuna managing […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Staten Island Yankees, Travis d'Arnaud This business wherein the Mets overcome years of being mostly bad and become mostly good is not a linear endeavor. Homestands of 8-2 are followed up with road trips of 5-5. Two out of three get taken from the Phillies only to have two of three (with one to go) given to the Giants. Exhilarating […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Fred Toney, Hippo Vaughn, Jacob deGrom, Jake Peavy, Jenrry Mejia, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Kim Wilde, Madison Bumgarner, Michael Morse, Neosporin, Pablo Sandoval, Steve Henderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Youth The 2014 World Champion New York Mets’ highlight DVD — whose title, Soak It Up, of course refers to the several million 7 Line hit towels we twirled as our boys rode triumphantly up the Canyon of Heroes — features one of the biggest blows of the year, Daniel Murphy’s fifth-inning, opposite-field, three-run homer, the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2014 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Jeurys Familia, Rose Royce, Vision It’s dangerous to saddle wins or losses with caveats. Wins are good, losses are bad. You depart from this simple equation at your peril. The Mets put themselves in an eight-run hole tonight against the A’s, as Zack Wheeler had no feel whatsoever for his curveball and iffy location with everything. (He also claimed the A’s had […] “It doesn’t work that way,” I had to explain to my sister over dinner out when she inferred I must really be enjoying how long these baseball games my baseball team has been playing, including the one I was listening to while she was talking. “You probably wish they’d last eight hours!” she said, as innocent […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A.J. Burnett, Anniversaries, Bobby Abreu, Buddy Carlyle, Ed Sudol, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Manship, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Pace, Team History |
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