In the heart of the communications capital of the world, I couldn’t say for sure what was going on one borough over. You can wire yourself up to the gills so you know everything at every minute the minute it happens, but if you find yourself one story beneath the sidewalk in an edgy Greenwich [...]
 
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. |
Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball teams playing at their eponymous park Wednesday afternoon. The Mets were the other one. Neither could be seriously described as the best of the pair. [...] Perhaps I’d forgotten how baseball seasons work since the last one concluded and the current one commenced, but I would have sworn through the first twenty games of 2013 that each and every one of the Mets’ first ten wins was brilliantly uplifting while each and every one of the Mets’ first ten losses was [...] What a marvelously well-behaved afternoon the Mets provided those of us who filed into Citi Field on Sunday. Our Ron Darling bobbleheads awaited us in a pleasing stack; our fish tacos didn’t take any longer than the “few minutes” the notoriously pokey Catch of the Day promised; our shadow-situated seats were convincingly but not excessively [...] Please come to Denver Submitted for your approval…nah, scratch that. Who here would approve of anything the Mets did Tuesday night in the city that’s been their personal Twilight Zone for two decades? Not fans of the Mets. Certainly not fans of crisp, clean baseball. Perhaps fans of the Rockies, but honestly, those [...]  13 comments | |  Print This Post |  1993 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Carlos Gonzalez, Coors Field, David Nied, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doubleheaders, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young, Greg Burke, Jackie Robinson, Jeff Francis, Marlon Byrd, Michael Cuddyer, Rafael Betancourt, Rockies, Rod Serling, Ruben Tejada, Scott Atchison, Snow Look, just forget about that one. Certainly Dillon Gee would like to. I came out of Gee’s nightmare of a second inning thinking that Objects on Scoreboard Are Less Dire Than They Appear — several of the hits had just found holes, the Mets were driving balls off Cliff Lee, and it was Citizens Bank Park. But then [...] We may lose and we may win And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen. If you told me I was going to three games in a four-day span in the middle of the season, I’d say, [...] Adam Greenberg gets his second chance for a first impression tonight in Miami. The Marlins responded to his (and his filmmaker advocates’) “position wanted” campaign by saying, in essence, what the hell, it’s a great story, you’ve got a good cause, go put on a uniform, we’ll pinch-hit you in a game that doesn’t much [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Greenberg, Anderson Hernandez, Blaine Beatty, Bob Apodaca, Bobby Parnell, Butch Benton, Carlos Mendoza, Carlos Muniz, Charlie Greene, Charlie Puleo, Chris Jelic, Cleon Jones, David West, Dean Chance, Dillon Gee, Doc Medich, Don Rose, Duffy Dyer, Ed Kranepool, Fred Lewis, Glendon Rusch, Greg Goossen, Jeff Gardner, Jessie Hudson, Joe Hietpas, Joe Nolan, Joe Vitko, John Candelaria, John Christensen, John Mitchell, Jorge Velandia, Juan Castillo, Kenny Greer, Last-Picked Mets, Lee Mazzilli, Les Rohr, Mark Corey, Mike Fitzgerald, Mike Glavine, Nolan Ryan, Pat Strange, Phil Humber, R.A. Dickey, Randy Myers, Randy Sterling, Ray Burris, Robert Person, Ronn Reynolds, Roy Staiger, Scott Holman, September, Team History, Tobi Stoner, Todd Haney, Tom Parsons, Valentino Pascucci, Victory Faust Recent events suggest I was wrong about Dillon Gee. Recent events suggest I was right about Ruben Tejada. Both of these things make me happy. That’s the fun of being a sports fan — it’s fun to be right, but sometimes you’re wrong and it makes you the happiest person in the room. Last year Gee got [...] The o gers’ lone concession to competitiveness Sun ay night was sen ing the rather won erful Clayton Kershaw to the moun , but in the early going not even a Cy Young awar -winning lefty with an evil curveball was enough to ispel the funk that’s settle over o ger Sta ium for the [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dee Gordon, Defense, Dillon Gee, Dodgers, Lucas Duda |
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