 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
The makeup doubleheader begins at 4:10, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms at 5:40, filling the late afternoon and the early evening, and then as soon as Manny Acosta comes in, it stops and leaves you to face the nightcap alone. You counted on it, relied on it to buffer the passage of time, [...] On September 28, 2010, Ruben Tejada came to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning with a pair of runners on base and the Mets down 3-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers. He belted a double to deep left field. Ike Davis scored from third. Pinch-runner Luis Castillo chugged home from first. The Mets, already [...]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1999 Mets, Attendance, Bill Pulsipher, Craig Brazell, Jeff Francoeur, Jeromy Burnitz, Jerry Manuel, Jose Bautista, Lenny Harris, Luis Lopez, Mike Francesa, Mike Nickeas, One-Game Playoffs, Rangers, Rays, Ruben Tejada, Tampa Bay, Team History, The Ruben; Reds, The Simpsons, Tim Bogar, Tropicana Field, Victor Diaz, Walkoffs If I’d told you back in March that September 28′s game would come down to whether somebody named John Axford could survive ninth-inning confrontations with Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Josh Thole and Ruben Tejada, you probably would have deduced that September 28′s game wouldn’t mean very much. And you would have been right, for this [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Corey Hart, Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Ruben Tejada It’s a Sunday afternoon in September 1996. I’m at Shea Stadium with my best friend Chuck, diehard Met sympathizer, but better described as a bandwagon rider in terms of his actual Met fandom. Yet in September 1996, there is no bandwagon. There’s just me guilting him into joining me for a game against the Braves. [...] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, Anniversaries, Billy Joel, Citi Field, Citi Field Tour, Condescension Toward Customers, Mad Men, Marv Throneberry, Mets Pop Culture, Old Dogs, Paul Wilson, Pete Flynn, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Small Time Crooks, The Last Play at Shea, The Rocker In the last two games against the Phillies, one player has gone 5 for 8 with two home runs, a diving catch, a statement made on the field and fiery talk off the field. This player has raised his average 46 points since September 3. He’s not a September call-up or a rookie, but a [...] Let’s not mistake this for a triumph. A triumph is clinching your division. The Phillies will know triumph very soon. But they don’t know it yet. You can only win what’s in front of you on a given day. The Mets won a ballgame they didn’t want to lose, one I’m pretty sure none of us wanted [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Division Clinching, 2006 Division Clinching, Carlos Beltran, Clinchings Delayed, Nick Evans, Phillies, Relief Pitching “Making an entrance after the president. That’s just not how we play bridge. It’s not how we say cricket.” Instead of veering wide of second base, Carlos Beltran directed his legs straight toward those of Chase Utley and Wilson Valdez. Instead of leaving three runners on base, Lucas [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Boston Garden, Carlos Beltran, Dillon Gee, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Pride The 2010 Mets are a temporary condition. Mets fandom, however, is a lifetime proposition. Some dispatches from around Metsopotamia, most of them showing us again that blue and orange waters run deep. • Faith and Fear reader Tim Hanley wrote in to let us know he and his home movie of Ron Swoboda’s Game [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Bill Mazeroski, Bing Crosby, FAFIF Shirt, Gary Sheffield, Howard Megdal, Ken Burns, Matthew Silverman, Moment of Silence, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw, Wayne Twitchell The Mets have lost six in a row for the first time all season and have fallen five games below .500 for the first time all season. It is said you shouldn’t necessarily trust everything you see out of a team in September, yet I find it surprising we didn’t see this kind of downward [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chase Utley, David Wright, Jerry Manuel, Losing Streak, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Slides, Typical Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Coors Field I’m flying high over Denver, [...] |
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