When it comes to last-inning lightning striking where you traditionally don’t want to be standing during a regular-season Subway Series — under a tree in the middle of the Mets bullpen — I can remember the Yankees taking it to John Franco in 1997, Armando Benitez in 2002 and 2003, Braden Looper in 2005, Billy […]
 
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. |
 24 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Lucas Duda, Mad Men, Mariano Rivera, Subway Series Lucas Duda reclaimed Utley’s Corner. Shawn Marcum finally completed Extended Spring Training. Ike Davis shredded his boarding pass for Flight .143 to Las Vegas. The Mets reaffirmed former NFL commissioner Bert Bell’s theory that on any given Sunday, any team can beat any other team. Bell was talking about professional football, wherein teams traditionally play […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bert Bell, Ike Davis, Lucas Duda, Shaun Marcum, Sunday Night Baseball “One night against San Antonio, we announced a crowd of eight hundred and six, and I sat there during halftime and I started counting the people in the stands, and my best guess is there were really about four hundred people at the game. And I went up to Rudy Martzke, who was then the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Caesars Club, Customer Service, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, John Franco, Suspended Games, Tickets Mets. Braves. Eight innings. Tie game. Rain. Suspended. Sound familiar? That’s because, per the Beatles, this happened once before. These very same clubs got through eight innings of no-decision baseball and called it quits in Queens, deciding to pick up where they left off later thanks to wet weather. It was just the same as it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Braves, Dale Murray, Jeff Reardon, Jeremy Hefner, Joe Torre, Lee Mazzilli, Mettle the Mule, Pete Falcone, Richie Hebner, Suspended Games Well, that was inconclusive. I would love to exult in a thrilling Mets victory or, barring that, dissect a frustrating Mets loss. Instead, let’s just all stare out the window and wait for 6:10 PM, for we have ourselves a suspended game, something I don’t know the Mets have had at home since Ed Kranepool couldn’t […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Anthony Varvaro, B.J. Upton, Cliffdwellers, Dan Uggla, Daniel Murphy, Ed Kranepool, Evan Gattis, Fireworks Night, Freddie Freeman, Golden Sombrero, Greg Burke, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, John Buck, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Upton, Kris Medlin, LaTroy Hawkins, Lenny Randle, Lucas Duda, Oral Surgery, Rick Ankiel, Ruben Tejada, Scott Rice, Suspended Games, Team History, Terry Collins, Ties, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Wes Westrum I was gonna bitch about Ike Davis specifically or the bleak state of affairs surrounding our woeful, third-worst-in-baseball, 17-27 Mets (45-76 since July 8, 2012) generally, but I figure we’ll have Ike and the Mets to kick around for months to come. So I decided to go in a different direction. Back. Back to happier times. […] On Monday night, the Mets got not quite enough of what they needed and a bit too much of what they didn’t. While that may sound like a description of any given one-run loss, this one struck me as quintessentially Metsian. I know I’ve seen it before, again and again. Their starting pitcher could have gotten […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Cynicism, Ike Davis, LaTroy Hawkins, Loss, Marlon Byrd, Shaun Marcum I’m picturing Mets marketing types watching the games from St. Louis and Chicago this week. They see the deep-seated allegiance in the home crowds set against the respective backdrops of Cardinalia and Cubbishness. There are symbols and there are statues and there is total engagement between the fans and the franchises, one of which has […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Mets Marketing, Shortsighted Decisions They walked on Ninth Avenue, with Harvey and the two friends in front, his sister and her husband behind them. When they arrived at the restaurant, his sister was laughing about what had just happened on the street. “Do you know how many people just did the second take on you?” she said to her […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gerry Arrigo, Harveysteria, Ike Davis, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Pitchers Hitting, Sid Fernandez, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver When the Mets interrupt one of their concentrated spans of ineptitude with a rare show of net-competence — such as that displayed Thursday afternoon at Busch Stadium in an unlikely 5-2 victory over the exalted St. Louis Cardinals of Keith Hernandez’s fundamentally sound fantasies — I am moved to recall an exchange from the 1984 […] |
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