Soon enough, we will concern ourselves with Spring Training hellos, including those from the Mets’ most recent flurry of somewhat tentative acquisitions. There’ll be first-pitch greetings from Shawn Marcum, Scott Atchison and LaTroy Hawkins; first-catch greetings from Landon Powell; greetings for the first time in a little while from previously dispatched Omar Quintanilla; greetings for [...]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Woodward, Danny Heep, Ed Charles, Football, Going Out On Top, J.C. Martin, Kevin Mitchell, Landon Powell, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Masato Yoshii, Octavio Dotel, Omar Quintanilla, Pedro Feliciano, Ray Knight, Scott Atchison, Shawn Marcum, Team History They sold the jerseys, they sold the dirt, they sold replicas of the tickets they didn’t sell…the Mets were so anxious to cash in on Johan Santana’s no-hitter that they even put the game-used shortstop up for sale! Didn’t necessarily think there’d be any takers, but the Orioles just had to have a piece of [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blasphemy, First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Johan Santana, Omar Quintanilla Good luck outguessing baseball: After kicking the ball around and losing two out of three to the Nats and then getting kicked around by the Yankees for a horrifying sweep, the Mets absolutely flattened the Tampa Bay Rays for a sweep of their own, turning an imminently horrific 1-5 road trip into a respectable 4-5 [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Hudgens, David Wright, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Lucas Duda, Omar Quintanilla We want the Mets to get up now… “I just kind of felt dead tonight,” said Dillon Gee after losing to the Yankees, 4-2. Didn’t we all inside? Didn’t everybody in a Mets uniform, with the possible exception of provisional savior Omar Quintanilla, look like Dillon felt? Enough playing dead. Rise from the dead already. It’s Sunday. It’s as [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, No Pulse, Omar Quintanilla, Subway Series I’m off to Red Sox country for my 25th high-school reunion tomorrow, so today’s game was a radio affair while working, with Howie and Josh painting the word picture from their perch in the ionosphere above Nationals Park. With R.A. Dickey on the mound, the game passed by like the cool breeze from an ambling, [...] This just in: Bud Selig has declared first place in the National League East vacant, pending location of a geographically suitable team that can play three hours of anything resembling baseball. That description suited the Nationals somewhat more than it did the Mets, as the two clubs bashed away at each other spastically, exchanging errors and [...] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Debacles, Elvin Ramirez, Horribleness, Jordany Valdespin, Omar Quintanilla, Ruben Tejada Nobody can unearth a personal baseball milestone the way I can, yet other than acknowledging their existence — My 200th Win at Shea! My 500th Mets Game Anywhere! My 500th Regular Season Home Mets Game! — I don’t seem to do anything about them. Not this time, though. Not when I saw my 100th game at [...] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Commuting, Empathy, Jeremy Hefner, Milestones, Omar Quintanilla, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston, Treat Yo Self Some Metsian bookkeeping from Memorial Day 2012, when the caps were ugly and Jon Niese didn’t look much better: • Jack Egbert, a righthanded reliever with a last name reminiscent of a weird comic I recall from my childhood (all the single-panel action took place in utero), pitched two-thirds of the ninth inning, making him the [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jack Egbert, Mets Third Basemen, Omar Quintanilla, Scott Hairston, Ty Wigginton, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman, Vinny Rottino The Mets are only enlisting a “turnaround consultant” now? Where was this service in September 2007? August 2002? May 1993? June 1977? The Mets have definitely been in need of a few sharp 180s in their storied history. You’d figure they’d have a “turnaround consultant” on call 24/7. The “turnaround” in question isn’t directly baseball-related, though [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corey Wimberley, Jeff Stevens, Omar Quintanilla, Ownership |
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