ESPN asked if the Mets and Nationals could come out and play Sunday night. Sure, they were told. But could they come out and play well? That was going to be more difficult on another Arctic evening in early April. Not that ESPN cared. They need product, […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adrian Gonzalez, Asdrubal Cabrera, Daniel Murphy, ESPN, Great Starts, Headaches, Jacob Rhame, Kiss, Matt Harvey, Nationals, Seth Lugo, Sweep, Yoenis Cespedes Back in the day, the Mets confined most of their April home games to afternoons. The thinking went something like this: it gets cold here at night. You might even say it gets bitter. Thursday the Mets went back to the day, a scheduling decision we “20,561” on hand (an accurate figure if you count inner […] Sweeping the Phillies in Philadelphia sure is fun, isn’t it? Sweeping anybody anywhere is a fine half-week’s work, but taking it to this bunch — the portion of it presently standing, at any rate — in that place? Sublime! The Phillies aren’t quite what they’ve been in the era encompassing August 2007 and everything after. That, of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Citizens Bank Park, Ike Davis, Justin Turner, Kyle Kendrick, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Rob Johnson, Shane Victorino, Sweep Thursday in Hempstead was incredibly outstanding, if not quite as incredibly outstanding as Thursday in Flushing, thus some last-minute changes to Friday’s program have been implemented. HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY PROGRAM ADDENDA FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 9:00 AM FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 10:30 AM 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fiftieth Anniversary, Heath Bell, Hofstra, Justin Turner, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Sweep The Mets may not be flawless, but so far this year they are perfect. They’re undefeated through their first series, alone in first place in their division, alone in New York on the list of teams that have won at least one baseball game that counts this year. That’s as close to flawless as they need to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jon Niese, No-Hitters, Perfect Record, Sweep, Terry Collins This would be a good time to be a drive-time disc jockey in medium-sized city with a persecution complex. If I were, I’d be working under the radio name of Resentful in the Morning, and I’d stir up my listeners to join me in a natural disdain for our local baseball team’s archrivals, whom I […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dignity, Disdain, Fredi Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, Resentment, Sweep It was a canyon of zeroes along the top line of the Citi Field scoreboard these past three nights. Read ’em, per sweep: 000 000 000 That’s what your defending National League champion Phillies left behind, thank you very much. More to the point, that’s what your homestanding New York Mets […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, Angel Pagan, Chris Carlin, Fernando Tatis, Frankie Rodriguez, Gary Cohen, Henry Blanco, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jose Reyes, Kevin Burkhardt, Mike Pelfrey, Momentum, Pedro Feliciano, Phillies, SNY, Sweep |
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