I admire the 2011 World Series thus far, which is a nice way of saying I have yet to be fully engaged by it. After the slam-bang blowouts that ended the LCSes, it was predicted/feared that the St. Louis and Texas lineups would lay waste to each other’s starting pitching and that the games would […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2011 Postseason, Albert Pujols, Jason Isringhausen, Jason Motte, Media Note: I started writing this in the Citi Field press box during the seventh inning, promising myself that if the Mets staged an improbable comeback I would groan and hit delete in honor of suffering beat writers everywhere. “No cheering in the press box” is one of the oldest rule of sportswriting, and it’s one that […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Citi Field, Media, Mike Pelfrey, R.A. Dickey, Rain This is what it sounded like during Terry Collins’s postgame press conference Sunday, where the primary subject was the status of Jose Reyes and Daniel Murphy: “Terry, have you ever seen this many injuries on one team?” “Terry, this is tough, isn’t it?” “Terry, can you believe how many injuries your team has had?” “Terry, your team has had […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Injuries, Jose Reyes, Media, Mindless Rituals, Terry Collins Looking back, you could see that as the last moment when the sports business was at human scale, a club where everybody knew who was who. Why wouldn’t you want to be around baseball in December? It’s so much better than everything else December has to offer. Tuesday, December 14, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Media, Mets Holiday Party, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Winter See, Don? This is the way to behave. I once had to transcribe a lengthy interview with a top executive in the industry I covered. He concluded just about every answer to just about every question with a sentence that began, “At the end of the day…” The deeper into the tape I got, the […] Clearly the Terry Collins era should be sponsored by an energy drink. Let’s hope it’s not Four Loko. I watched our new manager’s literally bouncy introductory press conference and came away with one overwhelming impression: “This dude is into it.” If he was worried about being identified as laconic, I think he’s got that licked. A […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Broadcast News, Four Loko, Hope, Media, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins The worst commissioner since Bowie Kuhn will probably be inducted into the Hall of Fame someday. It’s inevitable. Baseball loves to honor its emptiest suits. They did it for the hollow haberdashery inhabited by Bowie Kent Kuhn and they’ll do it for the incumbent do-nothing prop of ownership. Clear space in Cooperstown for a plaque […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, Bud Selig, Cablevision, Fox, Media, Royal Screw Job Tough break for Andy Pettitte, who pitched a fine game Monday night. Cliff Lee pitched a monster game. Monster wins. Still, nice outing for Pettitte, a very good pitcher who’s acquitted himself well in many postseason games since coming to the big leagues fifteen years ago. But now he might not make the Hall of Fame. […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, Andy Petttitte, Cliff Lee, Media, Yankee Hating If a manager and a general manager fall in the forest of rumors and you don’t hear it, did it happen? If the buzz surrounding a potential double-dismissal drowns out the noise from a walkoff home run, did the dinger make a sound? And if you’re standing in a deserted dugout after batting practice has […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 30 Rock, Blogging, Chris Carter, Delta Club, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Josh Thole, Media, Mike Pelfrey, Omar Minaya, public relations, R.A. Dickey, West Wing Expression of resigned exasperation with latest result. Acknowledgement that result doesn’t matter at this stage of season, yet it is always frustrating to encounter this sort of result. Link to article spelling out game details. Snarky aside. Key example of what went wrong in game. Assertion of saving grace, focusing on how this was just one game and player who […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Discouraging Developments, Embarrassment, Jeff Wilpon, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Luis Castillo, Media, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, public relations, Roy Halladay, Sean Green, September, Walter Reed |
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