 
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. |
In the bottom of the second inning last night, the umpires made R.A. Dickey cut two small friendship bracelets off the wrist of his glove hand — bracelets his daughters had given to him in January, before he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. Yes really. My suspicions — and those of probably every other Mets fan — immediately focused [...]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anger, Dusty Baker, Hopelessness, James Hoye, MLB, R.A. Dickey, Reds, Umpires Carlos Beltran is wearing black and orange, like he was shorn of blue in a Citi Field makeover. It looks weird. It will for a couple of days, and then it won’t much matter. By then, I presumably won’t be listening to Giants-Phillies games just because Beltran’s a part of them. The post-Beltran Mets can help [...] Now that was a fun game. A mess, to be sure — a big, brawling, unpredictable, crazy game, with lots of reversals and no guarantees, particularly if you were a Reds pitcher asking your defense to get a freaking out already — but a fun mess. For four innings Jonathon Niese looked untouchable, coolly sawing Reds apart [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Hope, Jason Pridie, Justin Turner, Miguel Cairo, Names, Reds, Ronny Paulino, Terry Collins, Yonder Alonso Welcome to a special Monday edition of 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: Great American Ball Park 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, Al Leiter, Flashback Friday, Great American Ball Park, Reds |
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