Sandy Alderson’s infamous Internet search for outfielders — fictional or otherwise — wouldn’t have turned up the name Ed Bouchee. Bouchee was a first baseman. Besides, the Mets already gave him a shot. He was an Original Met, our very first pinch-hitter. He batted for Roger Craig in the top of the fourth on April [...]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, Casey Stengel, Ed Bouchee, Michael Bourn, Moment of Silence, Sandy Alderson There was a celebration in one clubhouse at Citi Field Friday night, where somebody actually found something unusual in beating the Mets. Houston’s interim manager Tony DeFrancesco — not to be confused with ’70s heartthrob Tony DeFranco of “Heartbeat (It’s A Love Beat)” fame — had just won his first game as a major league [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Casey Stengel, George Bamberger, Gil Hodges, Joe Frazier, Team History, Terry Collins, Tony DeFrancesco, Tony DeFranco, Wes Westrum On Saturday, the Mets will distribute 25,000 bobbleheaded likenesses of Daniel Joseph Staub, which is not the same thing as actual likenesses — the resemblance is primarily hair-deep — and may not be enough for the club to satisfy the honoree’s stated wish that “everyone comes out and gets one.” Nobody likes to imagine Customers [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bobbleheads, Bobby Valentine, Bones Ely, Casey Stengel, Charlie Hough, Connie Mack, Davey Johnson, Dazzy Vance, Dick Tidrow, George Foster, Jim Leyland, Larry Bowa, Longevity, Mike Torrez, Nellie Fox, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tom Paciorek, Tug McGraw Among the many Mets bloggers carrying on for the one who couldn't make it to Hofstra were Steve Keane, John Coppinger, Taryn Cooper and yours truly. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bornstein.) Dear Dana, I either have to thank you or blame you for directing me to file my overdue report on the Hofstra Mets 50th Anniversary [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Blogging, Buddy Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dana Brand, Dave Kingman, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Vecsey, Gil Hodges, Hofstra Conference, Marv Throneberry, Mets Fans, Mr. Met, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Team History Well it’s lonesome in this old town How many pitchers does it take to replace Mike Pelfrey? More than one, we can now state with absolute certainty. The front office that we reflexively tag with the genius label didn’t exactly have a [...] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Casey Stengel, Chris Schwinden, Embalmed, Mike Nickeas, Mike Pelfrey, Mosquitoes, Routine, Sandy Alderson We can all agree Niese didn’t have it and the Mets did little against Happ and missing the Astros is something that sounds good in theory, but at this moment they can’t move to the American League soon enough for our tastes. The Mets, a pretty good club in April, started May by losing again [...] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Rubin, Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Gregg Jefferies, Hofstra Conference, Howie Rose, Jack Lang, Language, Let's Go Mets, Marty Noble, Mike Vail, Rheingold, Victor Diaz It hasn’t been the greatest offseason for following Mets’ news in our family — Joshua’s REYES jersey is gone, though I can’t bear to dismantle the diptych of Reyes and Wright above his bed — but the beat does go on. This winter, Joshua and I (often with Emily alongside) watched all of Ken Burns’s [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Bonds, Casey Stengel, Family Tradition, Fathers and Sons, Jackie Robinson, Ken Burns, Roger Angell, Team History The last two nights, the Mets offered us a stirring reminder that while the playoffs may be out of reach, there’s still plenty of baseball to be enjoyed, whether you’re out at Citi Field, parked in front of the TV or wandering around with the radio as your companion. They played scrappy, fundamentally sound ball, [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Dan Napoleon, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins I love being a Mets fan, but I hate rooting for the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate supporting the Mets. I love being a Mets fan, but I hate investing any faith whatsoever in the Mets as a baseball team or as an organizational entity. But I do love being a [...] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Australia, Casey Stengel, Condescension Toward Customers, David Wright, Delusions of Contention, Futility, Hanley Ramirez, Marlins, McFadden's, Mess, Mets Fans, VIP I was no fan of Whitey Herzog’s when he was The Enemy in the middle and late 1980s. Man, did I hate those Cardinal teams, probably more than I hated the Bobby Cox Braves of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Durocher’s Cubs, Leyland’s Pirates or Charlie Manuel’s Phillies of recent vintage. That’s a lot of [...] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Casey Stengel, Davey Johnson, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Managing, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History, Whitey Herzog |
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