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 […]
 
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. |
 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 In this new post-realization era of 2010 Mets baseball — in which we fully realize we’re toast — 7-6 losses of games which we once led 3-0 should seem, as R.A. Dickey might eloquently put it, inconsequential. For the big picture, sure, but in terms of leading by three and losing by one, it’s pretty […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake DeWitt, Carlos Marmol, Edward Hopper, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, R.B. Greaves, Steve Goodman, Tim Leary, Tim McCarver, Tin Tin, Wrigley Field, Xavier Nady The Mets lost a squeaker, as Jose Reyes smacked a ground ball to Gaby Sanchez with two outs in the ninth and the tying run on third. Damn — particularly with Angel Pagan having looked a bit leisurely on a ball off the wall that arguably led to a fatal extra Marlin run. Still, the […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Jerry Manuel, Marketing, Omar Minaya, Ownership At least Jerry played the kids. There really isn’t a lot else to say about this one — Johan Santana spotted the Astros a three-spot while searching for his changeup in an ugly first inning, ripped a double past the third baseman instead of bunting, David Wright hit a home run, and Ike Davis started a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Rodriguez, Garbage Time, Jerry Manuel, Omar Minaya, Ownership, R.A. Dickey, Wally Backman Checking in on the Mets from afar — There was only hit, and it was by Hamels? K-Rod did what? — while bouncing around between Florida and Rhode Island and various airports, I didn’t quite realize how mad I was at them. Until I sat down to watch an otherwise anonymous, playing-out-the-string game in Houston […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anger, Disappointment, Francisco Rodriguez, Garbage Time, Jerry Manuel, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Omar Minaya By now I’m not even mad at them. No, the worst I can manage while watching the Mets stagger around and lose is a weary exasperation. The competitive portion of the 2010 season is nearing its end, and whatever disappointment I felt over that has dissipated by now. You never know, as baseball sages will tell […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Acceptance, Disappointment, Hope, Luis Castillo, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Ownership The perfect team needs no enhancements at the trading deadline. Enhancements are for teams with glaring imperfections, first-place outfits like the Cardinals, the Padres, the Braves, the Yankees. They admitted their imperfections by making trades. So much for them. Perfection is obviously embodied in the tied-for-third place Mets, a club that stood pat Saturday afternoon […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Hisanori Takahashi, Jesus Feliciano, Kirk Gibson, Manny Acosta, Omar Minaya Not so long ago, the Mets losing two in a row was something that happened at least twice a week, and three times if the week were particularly unlucky. Now, it’s vaguely shocking. Waitaminute, we lost? But we’re great! We didn’t come back? Our starting pitching wasn’t dominant? Everything didn’t turn out OK? In truth, Johan Santana […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Cyclones, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Omar Minaya, Subway Series, Yankees So first I was really busy. And then I was really busy and in Toronto. (More on Toronto in a bit.) Between those two things, the Mets receded into a vague, distant unpleasantness, like a civil war in another hemisphere. I read Greg’s recaps and saw highlights, but I was spared the endless, metered doses […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Injuries, Jeff Wilpon, John Maine, Omar Minaya, Stupidity |
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