 
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. |
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 “The Mets, who are desperately in search of a victory,” I just heard Gary Cohen say in the truncated version of Sunday’s rebroadcast, “have had their ace step up big-time,” which got me thinking, “Well, I wouldn’t call me their ace…” All right, I knew he was talking about Johan Santana, but c’mon — the Mets […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cora, Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Frankie Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana, Winning Streak I’m sure I’ve been wrong more than twice recently, but two instances in particular call for a public correction of the record. Eleven days ago, I worried aloud about whether Johan Santana was definitively on the downside of his career. A pair of sterling efforts later, it appears he is not. I’m perfectly happy to admit […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Point Toasted Lager, Frankie Rodriguez, Jerry Manuel, Johan Santana, Managing, Marv Throneberry, Pitchers Hitting, PItching, Ron Swoboda, Winning Streak GOOD SIGNS FROM THURSDAY NIGHT • Johan Santana had the breaking pitch working, thereby forestalling by at least one start the precipitous decline feared on his behalf in this space five days earlier. • Ruben Tejada displays incredible intelligence and instincts no matter where he plays. Whatever way you figure out to get Cliff Lee here, the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesus Feliciano, Johan Santana, Livan Hernandez, Ruben Tejada In Johan Santana’s last four starts, he has thrown 25.2 innings and allowed 17 earned runs. That’s an ERA of 5.96. So Is Johan Santana not pitching like himself, or is this the way Johan Santana pitches now? When Johan is smacked around early and digs his team a hole as was the case Saturday afternoon, […] 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 Don’t worry folks, I’m just the amuse-bouche until Greg arrives with the main course. Several times I’ve had the experience of bringing someone to the first baseball game they’ve ever seen, or at least paid any attention to. I find it nerve-wracking: You hope for a crackling game full of reversals and anxiety and perhaps a […] Johan Santana used everything he could and kept the opposition off the board. The Mets didn’t score enough for him. Francisco Rodriguez made a tough situation even more difficult and blew a potential save. The Mets stopped scoring altogether in extra innings. Somebody on the other team hit a walkoff grand slam. The Mets lost […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Galarraga, David Eckstein, Indians, Jason Donald, Jim Joyce, Johan Santana, John McGraw, Ken Griffey Jr., King of Comedy, Perfect Game, Tigers, Umpires Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo Ryota Igarashi is a hell of a nice guy: It was his birthday, but he gave Corey Hart a gift — a splitter that hung in the middle of the plate, and which the equally generous Hart promptly regifted, delivering it to the Brewer relievers in the distant bullpen as a game-winner. Ah well, 35 goose […] |
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