Subway Series wins used to exhilarate me to a 52 on a scale from 1 to 10. The wins from this past Monday and Tuesday rated a 9.8 and a solid 7, respectively. Not bad, but not Matt Franco. Subway Series losses, when the Subway Series was new, cast black clouds all about me. From […]
 
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. |
 4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  An Appreciation, Derek Jeter, Jacob deGrom, Subway Series There are nights when you love how much you love sports. And then there are nights like Wednesday when you prefer to drown your sporting sorrows in prime time soap operas. The Nets, who occasionally lift my spirits in spite of my knowing that eventually they will find a way to pull them down, mishandle them […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Josh Edgin, Kyle Farnsworth, Masahiro Tanaka, Nashville, Rafael Montero, Relief Pitching, Subway Series GAME NOTES: The Mets scored nine runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … The Mets belted four home runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … Curtis Granderson, Eric Young and Travis d’Arnaud all took advantage of Yankee Stadium’s extremely generous right field dimensions, each hitting a short-porch […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric Young Jr., Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mets Win, Rafael Montero, Saul Katz, Subway Series, The 7 Line, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees Lose After more than a year-and-a-half in dental denial that those random pains in my mouth were nothing that couldn’t be artfully ignored, I submitted to inevitable oral surgery this past Tuesday. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for a lark, I put myself in the hands of capable, caring professionals who made it nothing like the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, PItching, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep Go figure. After somehow overcoming their own lack of hitting and boneheadedness afield to take two from the Yankees at Citi Field, the Mets made the very short trip north to resume hostilities in the Bronx with the likable but generally luckless Jeremy Hefner on the mound. So of course they leaped on David Phelps […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Hope, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Yankees When it comes to last-inning lightning striking where you traditionally don’t want to be standing during a regular-season Subway Series — under a tree in the middle of the Mets bullpen — I can remember the Yankees taking it to John Franco in 1997, Armando Benitez in 2002 and 2003, Braden Looper in 2005, Billy […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Lucas Duda, Mad Men, Mariano Rivera, Subway Series 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 To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era closers. All my thoughts on our modern-era closers were laced with expletives rarely deleted. Not that I don’t […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chickens, Daveotronic 5000, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Subway Series, Tim Byrdak “Losing to the Yankees is no different than losing to Colorado. What stings is losing to the Marlins. They’re in our division.” “I can’t wait to strike out those chickens. I want to strike out the side against them. I’ve done it before.” “What […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Quotes, Subway Series And this was before the Subway Series. Movies are almost always better when there’s a Mets element to them, whether it’s outsized, as in the key 1969 scenes from the current release Men In Black 3, or subtle, as in 1987’s Moonstruck, which had nothing explicit to do with the Mets back in the day […] |
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