What was it Philippé Wynne was advising all over the radio in the autumn of 1976? Hey y’all, prepare yourself for the rubber game…win. Was that the lyric? Ah, close enough for rhythm & blues. However they heard it sung, the Mets apparently took a 43-year-old clue from the Spinners’ featured […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Adeiny Hechavarria, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Human Element, Interleague Play, JaCoby Jones, Miguel Cabrera, Rubber Games, Spencer Turnbull, The Spinners, Tigers, Zack Wheeler My deepest apologies to anybody who wanted and expected to turn in no later than midnight Saturday after a calmly resolved 6-3 Mets win over the Angels, one saved without incident by Jose Valverde. Don’t blame Valverde for the three-batter sequence that commenced with two out and nobody on in the bottom of the ninth, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Bobby Parnell, Closers, Collin Cowgill, David Freese, Doom Factor, Erick Aybar, Jose Valverde, Omar Quintanilla, Presumptuous Thinking, Raul Ibanez Seven scoreless from Jamie Moyer’s spiritual younger brother from another mother Miguel Batista…spectacular. Daniel Murphy skipping a ball between Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s strides and through the shortstop hole Gary Cohen had detected a moment earlier…delicious. Terry Collins ordering a squeeze bunt and Ronny Cedeño executing it to two-nothing perfection…wunderbar! David Wright…superlatives implied. So many marvelous morsels to chew on for […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closers, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Miguel Batista |
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