I guess I should be more up in Panda arms over David Wright not starting the All-Star Game despite his being not just a better all-around third baseman but probably a better cuddly zoo animal than Pablo Sandoval, yet given the system that produced this silly result, it’s funnier than it is an outrage. David […]
 
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 |  All-Star Team, David Wright, Farce, Johan Santana, R.A. Dickey I used to watch my team’s games and hope for the best in the vaguest sense of the word. Then June 2012 came along and on its very First night, I received the best. I received the best thing a June game could give. I received the one thing I’d been waiting for my entire […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Excellence Again and Again, Johan Santana, PItching, R.A. Dickey …because we’re running out of them for R.A. Dickey. The already-undermanned Dodgers had no chance against a knuckler that was once again unhittable. None whatsoever. The degree of their no-chanceness was such that for a good part of the night we were all grousing about whatever happened to Andres Torres out there on Aaron Harang’s pop […] Gosh, I hope the passage directly below doesn’t came back to haunt us tonight as R.A. Dickey of the Mets faces Aaron Harang of the Dodgers. Not that there’s anything nasty about what one of the starters said about the other, but the last time something less than flattering about the L.A. club appeared under […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Harang, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, R.A. Dickey The fine print on doggedly determined underdog teams that rise up and take a bite out of dismissive expectations is they’re prone to getting rapped on the nose by those wielding rolled-up newspapers…or booming bats. This was a lousy weekend to be the Little Team That Could once it became apparent they Couldn’t. This was a […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Frustration, Miguel Batista, Nick Swisher, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Subway Series The poor Orioles are getting killed at Citi Field, and they don’t have a clue. Yesterday it was R.A. Dickey, armed with a knuckleball that was for all intents and purposes unhittable, one he used to write the latest chapter of his remarkable story. Greg chronicled R.A.’s second straight one-hitter here yesterday; today Roger Angell — our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, No-Hitters, PItching, R.A. Dickey Did the Citi Field scoreboard start every Oriole batter’s count at 0 balls and 2 strikes Monday night? You know, just to save time? I’ve seen hitters obviously overmatched by pitchers. I’ve seen hitters who it could be assumed had little chance against dominant pitchers in ungodly grooves. I’ve seen hitters who had to know it […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Unhittable From: Clueless Editor <cluelesseditor@limitedimaginationpublishing.net> Dear Mr. Plimpton: We are in receipt of your book proposal, The Curiouser Case of R.A. Dickey and regret to inform you it does not suit our needs at this time. While your lead character R.A. Dickey is richly drawn, and his […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George Plimpton, Literary License, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Sidd Finch, Team History We know best-selling author R.A. Dickey is a person as well as a top-notch pitcher, and we like that about him, because it gives us one more reason to find him, as he likes to say, trustworthy. If you’d like to discover more R.A. for yourself, as I did, he’ll be signing copies of Wherever […] I’m off to Red Sox country for my 25th high-school reunion tomorrow, so today’s game was a radio affair while working, with Howie and Josh painting the word picture from their perch in the ionosphere above Nationals Park. With R.A. Dickey on the mound, the game passed by like the cool breeze from an ambling, […] |
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