I’ve been to Fenway Park before — in fact, a few years ago I discovered that I saw my first-ever baseball game there, dandled (presumably) on my mother’s knee for a Red Sox-Tigers tilt in 1970 or so. I was back in the late 1990s, but with relatively few parks under my belt, my impressions […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brandon Nimmo, Brock Holt, Corey Oswalt, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Fenway Park, Jackie Bradley Jr., Paul Sewald, Red Sox, Rick Porcello, Steven Wright, Yankees Suck The independent Atlantic League, best known in Metsopotamian circles as base of operations for Buddy Harreslon’s Long Island Ducks, includes a team called the Road Warriors. You can’t go to one of their home games because they don’t have any. They are literally a travel team, existing […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Atlantic League, Corona, Daniel Zamora, Dom Smith, Dominic Smith, Drew Smith, Eric Hanhold, Ghastly Home Record, Road Warriors, Shea Stadium, Steven Matz, The 7 Train, Tyler Bashlor Perhaps the reason the Mets seem on their way to their worst season since 1993 is they have too many Mets born in 1993. I wouldn’t expect a Major League Baseball team to discriminate on the basis of anything other […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 2018 Mets, Birth Years, Branon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Drew Smith, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob Rhame, Karma, Michael Conforto, P.J. Conlon, Robert Gsellman, Tyler Bashlor Beat the Mets, beat the Mets Because the Mets are really sucking this year Growing up on Long Island, I was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Drew Smith, Home Runs, Kevin Kaczmarski, Kevin Plawecki, Long Island, Meet The Mets Dom Smith pinch-hit for brand new major league pitcher Drew Smith in the ninth inning of Saturday night’s Mets loss to the Dodgers, which seemed appropriate given that you can pretty much replace one Mets game with another and not even the names changing makes a tangible difference, so why even […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Caleb Ferguson, Clayton Kershaw, Craig Swan, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Jerry Blevins, John Franco, Matt Franco, Matt Kemp, More of the Same Nonsense, Seat Cushion Night, Willie Montanez Don’t trust what you see in September, they say. What I saw in September 2002 was a sign that life went on. It went on for almost another fifteen years. So maybe trust a little what you see in September. Hozzie the Cat, fifteen years a champ. Hosmer Mountain Beverage Cat Prince — known popularly as […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Flexen, Drew Smith, Hozzie the Cat, Lucas Duda, Moment of Silence |
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