There I sat, an unaffiliated baseball fan, watching the game because it was the only game that was on, the final game that would be on, Game Seven of the World Series, October 29, 2014, the Royals playing the Giants for the championship of the sport I loved. Those teams and that circumstance had nothing […]
 
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. |
 93 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Conor Gillaspie, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Giants, Jeurys Familia, Madison Bumgarner, Mathematically Eliminated, Moneyball, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Wild Card Earl Weaver, were he still among us, would likely be impatiently reaching inside his custom-made jersey for another cigarette, and not because his successor in Baltimore held out his best reliever in Toronto while the Orioles’ season went up in smoke. Weaver, between puffs of his filthy nicotine habit (having to stressfully rely on Don […] 49 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Don Stanhouse, Earl Weaver, Madison Bumgarner, Noah Syndergaard, Wild Card, Zach Britton The Mets are 84-74. They have never, in the history of the franchise, been 84-74 before. There is no inherent significance to having achieved this statistical milestone. It’s simply something I deduced after staring at their record for a moment. To have ever been 84-74, the Mets would have — in the segments of their past […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curt Gowdy, Endings, Jay Bruce, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Records, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes Sometimes your ace, while perfectly worthy of New Yorker covers, is missing that little wrinkle from his fastball and can’t locate it anyway and he gets whacked around. Sometimes an opponent who’s spent the year being an absolute tomato can manages to bewilder. Sometimes your hitters connect with ball after ball after ball in ways that seem promising […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Blair, Freddie Freeman, Matt Kemp, Noah Syndergaard I’ve invested so much of my life into loving baseball that it would have been a shame to have completely given up the game, but as Jerry Blevins prepared to face Daniel Murphy in the bottom of the tenth inning Tuesday night with two out, a runner on first and the Mets up by one, […] 58 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Games the Mets Didn't Lose, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Lou Brock, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Stan Musial, T.J. Rivera Let’s get the late news in first: this time the Pirates did the job, stifling the Cardinals to move the Mets into a virtual tie for the second wild-card slot. (It’s virtual because St. Louis has somehow played three fewer games than we have.) Then the Rockies walked off the Giants. Your NL wild-card race […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Phillips, Fans, Keith Hernandez, Noah Syndergaard OK, try this: Oh man, what a horrible game. What a horrible DAY. Jacob deGrom‘s pitching elbow is inflamed, he’s going to miss a start, and Terry Collins apparently knew nothing about it. And then the Mets went out and did NOTHING against the Nats. Ugh, the Nats! They make me want to break things! I mean, I […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Koda Glover, Nationals, Noah Syndergaard, Trea Turner, Wild Card Years ago, I was driving through the night with some unfortunate passenger, on a road trip that was passing through northern North Carolina or southern Virginia or some similar locale. The description of the passenger has to do with the fact that we were listening to the Mets, and in this analog, pre-At Bat era […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Kelly Johnson, Neil Walker, Noah Syndergaard, Yoenis Cespedes The best thing to do — the sane thing, the kind thing, the self-preserving thing — would be to focus solely on what happened in Sunday night’s Mets-Giants game. It was taut, tight and well-played, but ultimately a tale of two pitchers: Jeff Samardzija and Noah Syndergaard. Samardzija rode his plus-plus fastball, a resurrected curve and a […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jeff Samardzija, Jeff Wilpon, Noah Syndergaard, Rene Rivera, Yoenis Cespedes Though Noah Syndergaard delivered the biggest blow at Chase Field Tuesday night, Jerry Blevins prevented a bigger blow. Syndergaard homered in no-doubt fashion in the fifth to give himself and his team a 3-1 lead. A pitcher going yard will always grab your attention, even if the concept of Thor homering is no longer novel; […] 36 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Maher, Diamondbacks, Distilled Spirits, Jerry Blevins, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, T.J. Rivera |
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