I first laid eyes on Noah Syndergaard in July 2013, when he pitched for the USA in the All-Star Futures Game at Citi Field. (His opponent: Rafael Montero.) The Futures Game was lightly attended, and I wound up sitting with my pal Will in the luxe seats, the ones with padding where people will bring […]
 
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. |
 29 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlton Willey, Dwight Gooden, George Stone, Mike Hampton, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Sean O'Sullivan, Tom Seaver, Walt Terrell For a pleasant change, Bichette didn’t happen to the Mets on Sunday. Unlike the first three games of their just-contested four-game in Denver, the Rockies didn’t crumble all over our starting pitcher. Our starting pitcher was Dillon Gee. While other Mets starters have seen their best days or are no doubt striding toward them, Dillon […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Mad Men, Pitchers Hitting, Rockies They walked on Ninth Avenue, with Harvey and the two friends in front, his sister and her husband behind them. When they arrived at the restaurant, his sister was laughing about what had just happened on the street. “Do you know how many people just did the second take on you?” she said to her […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gerry Arrigo, Harveysteria, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Sid Fernandez, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver Nobody can unearth a personal baseball milestone the way I can, yet other than acknowledging their existence — My 200th Win at Shea! My 500th Mets Game Anywhere! My 500th Regular Season Home Mets Game! — I don’t seem to do anything about them. Not this time, though. Not when I saw my 100th game at […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Commuting, Empathy, Jeremy Hefner, Milestones, Omar Quintanilla, Pitchers Hitting, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston, Treat Yo Self If I hadn’t recognized the onslaught of orange by sight, my posterior would have know that texture of plastic anywhere. It was a 100% genuine Shea Stadium seat, one of four aligned against the front window of the Pine Restaurant at the Holiday Inn LaGuardia on 114th Street. Positioned as it was, it meant that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Hitting Pitchers, Mets Fan Philosophy, Phillies, Pitchers Hitting, Shea Stadium I’m sure I’ve been wrong more than twice recently, but two instances in particular call for a public correction of the record. Eleven days ago, I worried aloud about whether Johan Santana was definitively on the downside of his career. A pair of sterling efforts later, it appears he is not. I’m perfectly happy to admit […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Point Toasted Lager, Frankie Rodriguez, Jerry Manuel, Johan Santana, Managing, Marv Throneberry, Pitchers Hitting, PItching, Ron Swoboda, Winning Streak Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 358 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 8/31/01 F Florida 10-5 Leiter 27 130-97 […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Al Leiter, Flashback Friday, Pitchers Hitting The American League doesn’t know what it’s missing. Eff the DH. Eff the “nine hole”. Eff the whole concept that the pitcher is an automatic out, because in those lunar eclipse moments when maybe once a year, maybe once every few years, you see your guy take the other team’s guy deeper than the night, stronger […] Lots of entertainment tonight. Highlights: * It’s a family game. Take Jose Valentin getting tagged out at home plate by little brother Javier after a rather eventful trip around the bases, including a no-doubt-double-take-inducing wave of the arm from Manny Acta. Jose had 360 feet to go; unfortunately, his tank apparently held enough fuel for 350. And […] |
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