Prince (no relation) once referred to an electric word, life — “it means forever, and that’s a mighty long time,” he said. True enough. In my nearly half-century life, just the last fifth of it, I’ve seen four-year (Bay) and six-year (Santana) and seven-year (Beltran and, come to think of it, Piazza) deals all careen [...]
 
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. |
I don’t see much point in getting hackles raised over what’s said while a lucrative contract extension is up for grabs, because negotiations are an ends to a means, and the means are what’s meaningful in the end. Thus, when David Wright’s future as a Met went from glide path to word jumble in a [...] David Wright now stands alone atop the admittedly rather smallish peak known as All-Time Mets Hits Leaders. He got there with a third-inning tapper up the third-base line, a little excuse-me roller that was thrown away and left Wright waving — perhaps a trifle sheepishly — from second base. It was a small hit for [...] (Before moving on to our usual fun and games, our deepest thoughts and absolute best wishes go out to Shannon Forde, one of the true shining lights of the Mets organization and a great friend to the blogging community, as she battles to beat Stage IV breast cancer. Please visit Hope Shines For Shannon and [...]  1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Collin McHugh, David Wright, Jenrry Mejia, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, September, Shannon Forde, T-shirts The Mets’ playoff chances are dead, but after two months without a pulse the team itself is alive. No, it doesn’t matter. But it’s still nice to see — baseball is a far better companion when your team not only wins but plays with a little panache and offers you some hope for the future. David Wright [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Ed Kranepool, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays It’s good to know, in some perverse way, that with only two weeks remaining in the flat-out, most embarrassing second half the Mets have ever matriculated down the field, a given Mets loss can still rankle me enough to make me kick a plastic beer cup until it makes a thwack almost as loud as [...] 38 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1989 Mets, Barry Lyons, David Wright, Don Aase, Ed Kranepool, Josh Edgin, Kelly Downs, Matt Harvey, Ryan Howard, Willie Randolph So this simultaneously struck a chord and was no fun at all. What might improve things? 1) Make a date to see Knuckleball! It’s a terrific movie — a smart, sweet baseball valentine, and a wonderful character study of our own R.A. Dickey, Tim Wakefield and their forerunners as knuckleballers — Phil Niekro, Charlie Hough, Wilbur [...] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hope, Howard Megdal, Jonathon Niese, R.A. Dickey I’m at my low point as a Mets fan. It seems crazy to say it, but I really think it might be true. There have been disasters before, of course. I became a Mets fan in 1976, not knowing the team was about 14 months from becoming the baseball equivalent of North Korea. But I was a child [...] 70 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bernard Madoff, David Wright, Despair, Fred Wilpon, Howard Megdal, Jeff Wilpon After wrapping up their current series in Miami, the Mets re-enter the general baseball conversation for a little while, which has its upside and its down. The upside is everything the Mets do in their succeeding nine games against St. Louis, Atlanta and Washington potentially impacts the playoff picture. The down is that what appears [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Daniel Murphy, David Samson, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Justin Ruggiano, Kelly Shoppach, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Mike Baxter, MLB Network, Ozzie Guillen, Pennant Race, Steve Cishek |
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