Steve Gelbs seems like a capable enough young broadcaster. We know him mostly from filling in for the singular Kevin Burkhardt on SNY, which, in the realm of roving reporting, is a little like starting Todd Pratt on Mike Piazza Poster Day. Pratt may perform ably — more than ably at his best — but […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Hyperbole, Josh Edgin, Kevin Burkhardt, No-Hit Bids, Odrisamer Despaigne, Padres, Seth Smith, SNY, Steve Gelbs, Vic Black, Walkoffs, Zack Wheeler Welp, the little black cloud is back. This was a 2014 Mets game concocted from all-too-familiar ingredients: The recipe calls for mostly good starting pitching, a pretty good bullpen, no offense, some fundamentally dumb baseball, a dash of tragedy and a pinch of farce. Stir for nearly four hours and you get an aggravating, annoying loss. I said […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Edgin, Josh Harrison, Ruben Tejada, Umpiring, Vic Black The Mets didn’t win last night. Oh well. What were they going to do with a win if they’d attained it, anyway? Throw it on the pile of wins that never quite measures up to their taller pile of losses? Then what? Win again? Come now. Much as youth is said to be wasted on the young […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Gregor Blanco, Jerry Grote, Joe Torre, John Stearns, Josh Edgin, Larry Bearnarth, Losing, Rod Kanehl, Ron Darling, Terry Collins, Todd Hundley, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler 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 Mostly asleep but a little awake early this morning, I remembered I had to get up and write up one of those games I had no desire to dissect let alone relive. “That was deplorable,” I thought as I sunk back into unconsciousness, which is interesting to me since “deplorable” is a word I don’t […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Confluence, David Aardsma, David Wright, Deplorable, Gonzalez Germen, Jeremy Hefner, Jordany Valdespin, Jordy Mercer, Josh Edgin, Overwrought Yahoos, Pedro Alvarez, Terry Collins A day after a downtrodden people gathered to bear witness to Harveyism and declare that henceforth its tenets shall be their faith, the less-exalted Jeremy Hefner took the hill for New York. The more you know about Hefner the more you root for him, but he’s not Matt Harvey, which isn’t any kind of insult. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Laffey, Bryce Harper, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Edgin It’s good to know, in some perverse way, that with only two weeks remaining in the flat-out, most embarrassing second half the Mets have ever matriculated down the field, a given Mets loss can still rankle me enough to make me kick a plastic beer cup until it makes a thwack almost as loud as […] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1989 Mets, Barry Lyons, David Wright, Don Aase, Ed Kranepool, Josh Edgin, Kelly Downs, Matt Harvey, Ryan Howard, Willie Randolph Annie, I’ve got a lot of time to hear your theories, and I want to hear every damn one of them. But now I’m tired, and I don’t want to think about baseball and I don’t want to think about quantum physics. I don’t want to think about nothing. I just want to be. — […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Johnson, David Wright, Fans, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Edgin, Matt Harvey, R.A. Dickey Once in a while, particularly in a season that’s wandered dutifully into its gone-to-hell portion, the Mets will play a game that, like a piece of black, volcanic glass in Andy Dufresne’s favorite Maine hayfield, has no earthly business on their ledger. It will be tense, it will be tight, it will be gripping…even if […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jay Bruce, Josh Edgin, Mat Latos, Scoreless Games, The Shawshank Redemption Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson |
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