Howie and Josh mentioned a 1-0 lead during our brief half-inning together, but that’s all I absorbed before I had to reluctantly click them off. My phone flashed a lot of “Young” and “Murphy” whenever I gave it a borderline-polite furtive glance, yet I also spied a bit too much back-and-forth on the scoreboard for […]
 
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. |
Bartolo Colon, who won Tuesday night’s game, is old (by baseball player standards), portly (check out this self-administered belly-fat check) and never seems to be taking himself all that seriously (though of course he is). Colon doesn’t have a blazing fastball anymore, but what he does have is pinpoint location and a deep reservoir of […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolo Colon, Bobby Ojeda, Juan Lagares, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler More than a few media outlets have let it be known they don’t plan to refer to Washington’s football team as “the Redskins” this fall. And in an unrelated development, it’s highly unlikely that the name “the Washington Nationals” will be mentioned in many baseball stories come October. Let us enjoy this brief period of tangible […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bryce Harper, Davey Johnson, Ike Davis, Josh Satin, Juan Lagares, Natonals, Spoiler That’s the way the baseball season works — you get snowed out in a somewhat farcical early-spring trip, the makeup date gets stuck on the calendar so far off that it might as well be science fiction, and then the makeup date comes around after all, leaving you mildly surprised to realize the season has […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Ruben Tejada, Sandy Alderson Unlike Bono’s testimony from when Matt Harvey warms up (at Citi Field, anyway), I can close my eyes and make it go away. Matt’s casual excellence on Sunday Harvey Sunday — 6 innings, 6 hits, 0 walks, 6 strikeouts, just enough untamed action to permit 2 Padre runs in the fifth — was going to […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bono, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Rookies, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores You know what Doc Gooden’s typical pitch count was when he was regularly registering double-digit strikeouts in 1984? Neither do I. It never occurred to me to ask. The only pitches any Mets fan was counting 29 years ago were the ones that resulted in strike three. That was the fun of the greatest new […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young Jr., Instant Replay, Juan Lagares, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler Get out your microscopes, because we’re going to examine a very small silver lining. For much of the spring, as horrific loss followed horrific loss, I advised you to do something else with your summer, even as I knew I wouldn’t take my own advice. I didn’t and I’m glad I didn’t, because the Mets are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Fairchild, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Umpiring The fan’s instinct is to choose the following: • Pursuing the extra base over playing it safe. • Letting the starter pitch as long as he can. • Extra innings in the event of a tie score in the bottom of the ninth on the road. • Staying awake postgame in order to watch AMC’s Breaking Bad Season Four […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Bad, Cody Ross, Cynicism, Heath Bell, Instincts, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Patrick Corbin, Paul Goldschmidt FLUSHING, N.Y. (FAFIF) — The Jaws of Defeat expressed bafflement after being certain it had secured the New York Mets within its formidable bite at Citi Field Tuesday night. “Huh?” the bewildered Jaws of Defeat asked. “Where did the Mets go? I was sure I had them.” The Mets indeed appeared all but ensconced inside the Jaws […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Blackmon, Cliches, Defense, Eric Young Jr., Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, LaTroy Hawkins, Manny Gonzalez, Rockies, Wilmer Flores, Yorvit Torrealba Byrderers Row lives. Was it worth the call from the governor? The energized, fun-size Mets…the ones with an honest-to-god top of the order…the ones whose outfield is no longer a punch line but is arguably a strength…they remain as they’ve been for the past six or so weeks. These are the Mets on which Marlon Byrd […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Young Jr., Jeff Duncan, Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Mets Executive Hall of WTF?, Outfield, Pat Howell |
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