Considering the surfeit of extra-inning affairs the Mets have brought us in 2013, you might think something called the Citi Field Sleepover would seem superfluous. Yet the Mets scheduled one (as you may have picked up on from the handful of commercials they ran for it every five minutes), and a hardy band of Mets […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field Sleepover, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Ryder Chasin I didn’t know much about Wilmer Flores before his promotion last week, primarily because I cultivate a state of plausible deniability where the Met minor leagues are concerned. I remain mostly blissfully ignorant about Met prospects because, quite frankly, I don’t want to know. With a handful of exceptions at the Harvey-Wheeler level, I figure […] The fan’s instinct is to choose the following: • Pursuing the extra base over playing it safe. • Letting the starter pitch as long as he can. • Extra innings in the event of a tie score in the bottom of the ninth on the road. • Staying awake postgame in order to watch AMC’s Breaking Bad Season Four […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Bad, Cody Ross, Cynicism, Heath Bell, Instincts, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, John Buck's Baby, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, Patrick Corbin, Paul Goldschmidt FLUSHING, N.Y. (FAFIF) — The Jaws of Defeat expressed bafflement after being certain it had secured the New York Mets within its formidable bite at Citi Field Tuesday night. “Huh?” the bewildered Jaws of Defeat asked. “Where did the Mets go? I was sure I had them.” The Mets indeed appeared all but ensconced inside the Jaws […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Blackmon, Cliches, Defense, Eric Young Jr., Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, LaTroy Hawkins, Manny Gonzalez, Rockies, Wilmer Flores, Yorvit Torrealba Jordany, we hardly knew ye. Actually, we knew ye surprisingly well for someone who played relatively little — though I guess for all the exhibitionist Instagrams and clubhouse clucking, we didn’t know everything relevant there was to know. Now we know for certain we won’t be seeing you in September at Citi Field…though we could’ve […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Biogenesis, Frankie Rodriguez, Jonathan Papelbon, Jordany Valdespin, Marlon Byrd, PEDs, Suspension So I went to Saturday’s Mets baseball game — it was 1973 Playing Cards Day, for gosh sake, the Wilponian equivalent of 52 tiny old-timers shuffling out of a plastic-coated, Caesars-branded pack for our brief nostalgic reverence — and a marathon broke out. Yup, another long one from those wonderful folks who brought you the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Chen, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Hosmer, Extra Innings, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, Royals, Sandy Koufax I’m pretty sure the Mets won their game Friday night. Score says they did. My memory says they did. Eric Young, Jr., tossing his helmet into the air before stomping on home plate amid a sea of orange-trimmed blue jerseys says they did. So why doesn’t it feel more festive? Probably because, in descending order of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amos Otis, Carlos Torres, David Aardsma, David Cone, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ed Hearn, Eric Young Jr., Interleague Play, Joe Foy, Pedro Feliciano, Royals Previously on The Newsroom… SEPTEMBER 23, 2011 WILL CHARLIE WILL *** DON 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Aaron Sorkin, High-Toned Cable Drama Plots Byrderers Row lives. Was it worth the call from the governor? The energized, fun-size Mets…the ones with an honest-to-god top of the order…the ones whose outfield is no longer a punch line but is arguably a strength…they remain as they’ve been for the past six or so weeks. These are the Mets on which Marlon Byrd […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Young Jr., Jeff Duncan, Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Mets Executive Hall of WTF?, Outfield, Pat Howell Congratulations to proven Amazin’ research maven Mathias Kook and talented Metsian writer William Akers for understanding the 1986 World Series was a Fall Classic Sly Stone probably adored, for almost Everybody [Was] A Star. As noted here, 26 of the 43 players who played in the last truly great World Series — parochially speaking — […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bobby Ojeda, Danny Heep, Doug Sisk, Kevin Elster, Mookie Wilson, Rafael Santana, Roger McDowell, Tim Teufel, Wally Backman |
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