I don’t observe Christmas in the ecclesiastical sense, but I’ve watched a lot of Christmas episodes of sitcoms, both live-action and animated, so I understand assisting Santa Claus when asked is necessarily a good thing. Every year around this time, I hear that a reindeer with a nose visible in fog went down in history […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Benny Agbayani, Christmas Eve, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Doug Sisk, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Gentry, Mark Bomback, Rick Aguilera, Rico Brogna, Ron Swoboda, Rookie of the Year, Seth Lugo, Team History, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Yoshinobu Yamamoto The Mets, all $430-odd million of them, are a mess. The hitting is anemic. The starting pitching is mediocre. The record is the literal definition of mediocracy. The vibe, not an official stat but readily detectable, is a lot worse than that, with fans increasingly fuming before taking their seats, looking for someone to blame and […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Lans, Austin Gomber, Bill Pulsipher, Daniel Bard, Frustration, Gary Gentry, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Mental Health, Paul Wilson, Rockies, Shea Stadium I was five months old when the Mets completed their ascent from doormats to destiny’s darlings, and by the time I started collecting cards in 1976, the miracle makers had been largely dispersed. Just six were still Mets. The rest had become Pirates and Astros and Phillies and other questionable things, or started doing whatever […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Gary Gentry, Injuries, Pitchers Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 157th game in any Mets season, and we keep going from there until we […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bob Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, Donn Clendenon, Dwight Gooden, Ed Charles, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Lindsey Nelson, Ron Darling, Rusty Staub, Team History, The Happiest Recap Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 31st game in any Mets season, the “best” 32nd game in any Mets season, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1983 Mets, 2010 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Ike Davis, Team History, The Happiest Recap Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo |
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