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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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Collin McHugh, David Wright, Jenrry Mejia, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, September, Shannon Forde, T-shirts I sensed trouble from the start. I’m not sure why I did — the ball Neil Walker hit to begin the bottom of the Pirates’ eighth wasn’t going out and wasn’t parachuting in. It was ticketed for short of the warning track, a quick trot at worst for either the left fielder or the center fielder. [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, Pirates, PNC Park Tim Byrdak is slated to miss six weeks because of knee surgery. While we wish him well, what’s six weeks when compared to 72 years? And what’s torn meniscus cartilage next to a wet schmaltz sandwich? A wet schmaltz sandwich isn’t yet another injury for which Mets doctors have no known cure. Rather, it was a [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Field Of Dreams, Injuries, Paul Waner, Pirates, Rainouts, Schmaltz Sandwiches, Spring Training, Tim Byrdak To be clear, I love Ken Burns — I’m a sucker for every move in his arsenal, from the slow pans of old photos to the sage talking-head in his (or her) study. And I read Bart Giamatti’s invocation of baseball and the seasons at least once a year and wind up sniffling. What I [...] Was it the lure of the Mets that crammed PNC Park’s third-largest crowd into the home of the Bucs the way only Greece, Ecuador and soccer draw throngs to Citi Field? Was it the promise of fireworks and Huey Lewis & The News postgame? (Can Huey Lewis really be considered “news” 27 summers after Sports?) [...] Kinda busy, kinda distracted. Mets score a run in the top of the first on no hits, I hear out of one ear. That’s nice, I think. But why didn’t we get any hits? Three straight Pirate hits and the tying run right after, it is mentioned while I’m still doing something else. Damn, I think, [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Morton, Dillon Gee, Jack Fisher, Luis Rivera, Manny Acosta, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, Tim Bogar, Tim Byrdak Call it hindsight of the sharpest degree, but I swear I had a feeling about today’s game when it was 7-0, and that feeling wasn’t all about the different vessels I considered packing Mike Pelfrey into and what destinations I would have liked him shipped. Well, that, too, but after Pequeño Pelf finished the third [...] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Comebacks, Daniel Murphy, Hunches, Mike Pelfrey, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, Terry Collins, Willie Harris Dillon Gee wasn’t supposed to be here. Neither was Justin Turner. Or Jason Pridie. Or Ruben Tejada. Willie Harris wasn’t supposed to start. Daniel Murphy wasn’t supposed to play first. Yet the Mets still won, beating the surprising Charlie Morton and the relatively surprising Pittsburgh Pirates with a flurry of singles and overcoming their usual woes [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Greg Maddux, Pirates, Rick Reed, Stats SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1999 GARY COHEN The last of the ninth inning in the final regular-season game of the year. The Mets and Pirates locked in a one-one duel. The Mets needing a win to guarantee there will be a tomorrow. Greg Hansell, a well-traveled twenty-eight year-old righthander, will pitch the bottom of the ninth [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Bob Murphy, Bobby Bonilla, Brad Clontz, Edgardo Alfonzo, Gary Cohen, Greg Hansell, John Olerud, Melvin Mora, Mike Piazza, Pirates, Radio, Salute to Baseball, WFAN Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: PNC Park One of the best episodes [...] |
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