We were excited in August of 2013. Reasonably excited, anyway. The Mets were 13½ games out of first place and 10 behind in the Wild Card stakes when the month began, so I wouldn’t oversell the euphoria angle. Yet as fans of teams that are not contending will, we readily embraced the chance to meet […]
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2013 Mets, Casey Stengel, Epic Wins, Jayson Werth, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Prospects, Slides, Thoracic Outlet Surgery, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler One look at the dark clouds encroaching from the west led me to an unassailable conclusion, which I shared with my friend Joe as we sat waiting in the third row of Promenade, section 508, for the top of the ninth inning to commence Thursday afternoon. “End times,” I declared mostly seriously, “are coming.” Joe glanced up […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Camp Day, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Humidity, Jeurys Familia, Justin Upton, Rain Delays, Trades, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler OK, so … Hmm. Umm. Seriously, how the hell do you start? Wednesday night’s game was weird before it began, but we had No Idea. Even before Will Venable headed for the plate to start the top of the first, Twitter was buzzing with rumors: The Mets were close to a deal, and it was for a bat — a […] 101 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Fans, Reporters, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Trades, Weirdness, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler Not many books draw attention more for their subtitle than their title, but Baseball Maverick’s most striking come-on clearly sits below the marquee: “How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets” The unaffiliated reader might arch an eyebrow at the part in which one man is claimed to have transformed an entire sport, but that pales […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Sandy Alderson, Scott Kazmir, Steve Kettmann, Zack Wheeler Well, I guess we’ve solved the Zack Wheeler pitch count problem for 2015. Depth is a blessing, to be sure, but it is by no means optimal to learn your team will go forward stripped of — give or take a Niese — your No. 3 starter in the season when you envisioned the whole gang […] Enjoy that one. The nightcap saw the Mets do absolutely nothing against entitled annoyance Gio Gonzalez, a little Daniel Murphy parachute aside. Enjoy that one. They finished the season 4-15 against the Nationals. Go a mediocre 9-10 and they would have been over .500. Enjoy that one. Zack Wheeler‘s final start was a letdown — he was […] You can now update the Mets’ slash line to reflect their currently accurate settings: 9 YRSWOPSA/15 YRSWOPNT/29 YRSWOWCH GLOSSARY The clock jumped ahead one year once the Pirates beat the Brewers in a game loaded with playoff race implications, which is to say it had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Lucas Duda, Mathematically Eliminated, Zack Wheeler Pictured: One of the many innings when Anthony Rendon batted. There were two hints on my ticket for Saturday night’s game that a pleasant result wasn’t in the offing: 1) The Washington Nationals were listed as the opponent. 2) Chris Young’s picture adorned it. The Nationals need no introduction in our neighborhood. One delightfully foot-stompin’ win notwithstanding, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Aurora Borealis, Chris Young, Dave Kingman, Fireworks Night, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler On Saturday night, in the second inning, Dillon Gee lofted a fly ball to left with Dilson Herrera on third and one out. Donald Lutz, a German citizen playing on German Appreciation Night, settled under the ball and caught it. Tim Teufel told Herrera to stay put and Herrera did. The Mets didn’t score — […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Jenrry Mejia, Replay, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball matchmakers want to know what, exactly, is taking so long: Send some prospects from Column Mets west while some prospects […] |
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