Thanks to the technological marvels of the day, I didn’t go Mets-less during nearly a week in Iceland. Maybe we don’t have flying cars yet, but I did use my phone to sit out in the post-midnight sunshine in rural Iceland listening to the Mets playing baseball on the other side of the world. My childhood […]
 
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. |
 21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda Sometimes the jokes write themselves: Wednesday was Dinosaur Education Day at Citi Field, which led me to imagine a Jonah Hill type patiently explaining to Terry Collins why bunting is often a bad strategic play and urging him to use his best reliever in the most critical situation instead of when the eighth inning was […] Some things that don’t matter: * Ike Davis vs. Lucas Duda. Ike’s doing a lot better in Pittsburgh. That’s great. He was a mess in New York, capable of spending months looking unsure which end of the bat was up. Ike wasn’t going to get fixed here, so I wish him the best there. Duda came […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bud Selig, Dave Hudgens, Fans, Hopelessness, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jose Valverde, Josh Lewin, Keith Hernandez, Lucas Duda, Sandy Alderson, Stupid Bullshit, Wilpons GAME NOTES: The Mets scored nine runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … The Mets belted four home runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … Curtis Granderson, Eric Young and Travis d’Arnaud all took advantage of Yankee Stadium’s extremely generous right field dimensions, each hitting a short-porch […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric Young Jr., Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mets Win, Rafael Montero, Saul Katz, Subway Series, The 7 Line, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees Lose He was a Met — maybe he didn’t perform to the standards we set for him or to our satisfaction of what we decided he could be, but he was one of ours. He went out there and he did his best. Then one day he was gone and we could only imagine the damage […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Farewells, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, One-Hitters, Trades, Zack Thornton On a night when I felt like Gary Cohen sounded and the Diamondbacks played, the Mets overcame the most miserable Monday malady imaginable: the loss of two outfielders, one of whom is very good and the other of whom presumably sooner or later will be. They persevered to a 7-3 victory, thanks to Zack Wheeler holding […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Diamondbacks, Injuries, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Outfield, Zack Wheeler Utter pessimism is dead! Long live tempered pessimism! Losing, Lewis Grizzard once wrote, hurts worse than winning feels good. We’ve known plenty from losing and hurting. We’re only now processing again how winning feels. I’m not certain. After the 0-3 start that weighed 0-30 in Met-ric emotional tonnage, the simple act of not losing feels pretty […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Billy Hamilton, Brandon Phillips, Eric Young Jr., George Theodore, Jenrry Mejia, Joey Votto, Jose Valverde, Kyle Farnsworth, Lucas Duda, Mike Leake, Not Losing, Winning Lucas Duda spent the spring trudging around left field until an intercostal strain and a dose of reality dictated that he stop. He then spent the summer in Las Vegas. When he returned, he went from left field to left out, with first base occupied by fellow reclamation project Ike Davis. Then Ike strained something (the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Brad Hand, Giancarlo Stanton, Lucas Duda, Rick Ankiel Matt den Dekker is a plus center fielder for a team that suddenly has a surplus of them, has some pop, and looks like he’s got an idea about how to approach an at-bat. Travis d’Arnaud, despite being written off by people unfamiliar with the concept of “small sample size,” has a good arm and an […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Justin Turner, Lucas Duda, Matt den Dekker, Travis d'Arnaud When Dillon Gee pitches, the Mets maintain an excellent chance to win even though he doesn’t overpower hitters. And when multiple Mets hit home runs when a pitcher of Gee’s caliber pitches…well, look for yourself in case you forgot there was a game Wednesday afternoon. I didn’t, because I generally don’t, and I enjoyed the resulting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Al Moran, Andrew Brown, Choo Choo Coleman, Dillon Gee, Duke Carmel, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Joe Hicks, Leonard Shecter, Lucas Duda, Pumpsie Green, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tim Harkness, Tracy Stallard |
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