In the aftermath of the Mets’ failure to sign Michael Bourn (or their success at retaining the 11th Draft Pick), I wondered if the resolution would have struck me as so disappointing had not so many details of its progress emerged during the process leading up to it. The Mets were talking to Bourn…the Mets […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Johan Santana, Media, Message, Michael Bourn, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson The New York Mets have thus far this offseason, when not trading reigning National League Cy Young Award winners, procured the services of the following players with non-Mets major league experience: Josh Rodriguez, infielder, 28 years old, 7 MLB games (2011); Jamie Hoffmann, outfielder, 28 years old, 16 MLB games (2009, 2011); Anthony Recker, catcher, 29 years old, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Andrew Brown, Anthony Recker, Brandon Hicks, Brian Bixler, Carlos Torres, Collin Cowgill, Greg Burke, Jamie Hoffmann, Josh Rodriguez, R.A. Dickey, The Breakfast Club 1. “And at Christmas, you tell the truth,” or so I heard it said in Love, Actually. 2. But I’m still seeking the truth in the trade that has left us Dickeyless in New York City. 3. Is it true somehow that sending away our singular Cy Young recipient was the brilliant Aldersonian chess move for which we’ve […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Stearns, R.A. Dickey, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud Final impressions, from the Mets’ 2012 holiday party at Citi Field. “How does Alderson go about reviving the more dormant aspects of our passion, those which have been dulled by two years of dismal sputtering on the heels of two years of dramatic letdown? By winning, of course. Winning will make us all feel […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Farewells, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson, The Shawshank Redemption The Mets have made what seems like a very good trade. But I hate that they’re making it. After David Wright was re-signed, I wrote that I was happy but not particularly celebratory — retaining Wright struck me as a no-brainer, the kind of thing a franchise in decent working order would of course do. Back […] 48 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Madoff, Media, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Travis d'Arnaud For once, it was a good day for Mets fans to be ensconced in the basement. I don’t mean the National League East standings, lest Marlins fans grow jealous of our impinging on their hard-earned territory, but specifically the basement party room at Foley’s, where our little get-together to celebrate the recent release of the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | AC/DC, M*A*S*H, R.A. Dickey, Santa Claus, The Happiest Recap (The Book) I know what happens If R.A. Dickey were a garden-variety drama queen, I might have written off his use of phrases like “disappointment”; “impatience,” “emotional scope”; “we’re asking for less than what’s fair”; “you already think you’re extending the olive branch”; and “I don’t want […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Mets Holiday Party, Negotiations, R.A. Dickey, Winter “Sandy, everybody’s on. Go ahead.” 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Paul DePodesta, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alderson, Tough Calls The Germans have their specialties: awesome board games, unhealthy food that repeats on you, whistle-worthy luxury cars, the occasional bid to cover the world in darkness. They’re also known for long, really useful compound words describing hard-to-summarize emotional states. The most famous one of these is Schadenfreude, best translated into English as HA HA THE YANKEES LOST. […] The name “R.A. Dickey” has become to us Mets fans what “Maria” was to Tony in West Side Story. Say it loud and there’s music playing Now, with the 2012 Cy Young Award voted R.A. Dickey’s way by veritable landslide, suddenly that name will never be the same again. It’s only […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cy Young, Most Valuable Met, R.A. Dickey, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story |
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