 
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. |
Pirates manager Jim Leyland took issue with the team’s We Play Hardball promo. “We can’t say we play hardball, I’m tired of that bleep,” he said. Adam Wainwright gave the Cardinals everything they could have asked for Sunday night: a 107-pitch complete game victory. John Maine gave the Mets everything […]  23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Wainwright, Brent Gaff, Brian Costa, Charlie Daniels, Daveotronic 5000, Felipe Lopez, Frank Catalanotto, Hype, Iron Man McGinnity, Jerry Manuel, Joe Mather, John Maine, Jon Heyman, Luis Castillo, Major League, Marketing, Michael Kinsley, Mike Birkbeck, Mike Jacobs, Office Space, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Raul Valdes, Rick Aguilera, Tobi Stoner I suppose what I’ll remember from this game is the look of anguish on Raul Valdes’s face as he watched his curveball not curve. Or, rather, it did curve — very gently, so as to offer itself politely to Felipe Lopez’s bat and thereby begin its long trip to a final destination beyond the left-field fence. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Nieve, Jerry Manuel, Oliver Perez, Raul Valdes You can’t take the numbers you see after five games terribly seriously. Do we really think Jeff Francoeur will hold to an on-base percentage of .500? That Ollie Perez will be hitting .500 all year? That Jose Reyes will be fielding .875 when all is said and done? On the other hand, it would be hard, […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Dunn, Citi Field, David Wright, Frank Catalanotto, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jenrry Mejia, Jose Reyes, Let's Go Mets, Mets Fans, Oliver Perez, Rod Barajas, Ruben Tejada, Tyler Clippard, Willie Harris, Willy Taveras There’s one possibility nobody has brought up. I don’t think anybody ever said that maybe I just lost my control. Maybe your control is something that can just go. It’s no big thing, but suddenly it’s gone. It wasn’t a doubleheader per se, but there were two games for the price […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ken Takahashi, Oliver Perez, Sean Green, Steve Blass Thanks to the industrious fellow who maintains the singularly indispensable Ultimate Mets Database and his thoughtful posting of a very helpful and completely nonjudgmental list last April on the Mets board of Mets boards Crane Pool Forum, I have at my fingertips not just the names of every Met who has ever played but the […] Oliver Perez was reborn Saturday as a control freak. May he remain obsessive, compulsive or whatever it takes to do repeatedly what he did today. Six and two-third innings. Two runs. Nine strikeouts. No walks. None. Barely any balls at all…in the literal sense, that is. Whatever became of the human WALK sign? That fellow (41 of 73 pitches […] Oliver Perez is taking the ball against Detroit Wednesday, starting in consecutive games or going on 132 days’ rest, depending on how you choose to view this terribly overdue Mets-Tigers matchup. Either way, our boys will be lacing up spikes that are not — no matter how much elbow grease the clubhouse staff has put […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, Carlos Beltran, Disappointment, Jeff Suppan, Oliver Perez, Yadier Molina Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 2006 National League Eastern Division Champion New York Mets. Twenty years. Countless Fridays. This is one of them. As I recall my beloved 2006 Mets here one more time from the vantage point of two decades on — just as I’ve been […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Flashback Friday, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Oliver Perez, Sid Fernandez The Carloses are a beautiful thing, aren’t they? ¡Nosotros Carlamos! We are them and they are us and we are all together…goo goo g’joob. Yet they’re not Ollie and Ollie, saviors in arms. Yeah, that’s who it figured to hinge on. All the series previews in print and on air had it exactly as it’s happened: Darren […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Darren Oliver, Oliver Perez |
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