R.A. Dickey’s initial preparations really paid off, eh? The knuckleballer’s erudition, real or imagined, reads even better when you can find his name among the National League leaders in Earned Run Average…which you now can. It wasn’t his earned runs allowed that were keeping him out until now, but rather his relatively few innings pitched, […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Abraham Nunez, David Wright, Ike Hampton, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Josh Thole, Ken Henderson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shane Halter, Team History, Tim Corcoran Well, anybody see that coming? I just got back from three days in San Francisco (where I risked my college pals’ wrath during our annual get-together by riding shotgun on Johan’s no-hit bid, resulting in a curious ambivalence when Placido Polanco RUINED EVERYTHING) and tomorrow morning I’m heading out for six days in Orlando and Providence, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Fernando Martinez, Hope, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Mike Pelfrey, Prospects, Ruben Tejada, Youth So the Mets lost a tight one to the Atlanta Braves tonight … and you’d assume it’s time for us all to jump off a bridge. Four games out and the Phillies came off the gurney to beat the Reds and Cliff Lee’s a Yankee Ranger and ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod. Except I can’t seem […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Cox, Braves, Chipper Jones, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Michael Tucker, R.A. Dickey, Rivalries, Team History, Yunel Escobar Back in 2007, the Mets brought up a young man named Carlos Gomez. Gomez could burn — he and Jose Reyes used to race each other out to their positions, which I thought was adorable. He was just 21, but pretty big — the kind of guy you see as a doubles and triples hitter […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Hope, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Prospects, Shawn Green “Hello, Mr. Santos. I’m not sure if you remember me…” 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Chapman, Chris Coste, Henry Blanco, Josh Thole, Mets Catchers, Omir Santos, Shawn Riggans, Steve Carlton Here’s another sign of spring for you: 2010 Topps Baseball is out. I know, it’s February. That’s the way things go these days — the first series of cards arrives in the dead of winter, weeks before anyone even shows up in Florida or Arizona, with a couple of cup-of-coffee rookies adorning their first cards (Tobi […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Josh Thole, Rusty Staub, The Holy Books When acknowledging assumptions as mistaken, Bob Murphy philosophized, “That’s why they put erasers on pencils.” You can use the same device to erase all the 6-4-3’s you’d already scratched into your scorebooks for all the double plays Bengie Molina was going to hit into as the Met catcher this season. Scratch ’em out — Molina’s […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bengie Molina, Chris Coste, Henry Blanco, Josh Thole, Mets Catchers, Omir Santos |
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