 
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. |
To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era closers. All my thoughts on our modern-era closers were laced with expletives rarely deleted. Not that I don’t […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chickens, Daveotronic 5000, Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Justin Turner, Subway Series, Tim Byrdak “Losing to the Yankees is no different than losing to Colorado. What stings is losing to the Marlins. They’re in our division.” “I can’t wait to strike out those chickens. I want to strike out the side against them. I’ve done it before.” “What […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frank Francisco, Ike Davis, Quotes, Subway Series Bravo, pretty much without exception and with only limited debate, for the 50th Anniversary Mets’ All-Time Team as revealed Sunday night at the 92nd Street Y and broadcast Thursday night on SNY. The committee empowered to choose the all-timers — Howie Rose, Gary Cohen, Marty Noble, John Harper, Mike Vaccaro and Mike Lupica — gave […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 50th Anniversary, All-Time Team, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dennis Cook, Edgardo Alfonzo, Endy Chavez, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Joel Youngblood, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Mitchell, Melvin Mora, Mike Piazza, Rick Reed, Rod Kanehl, Roger McDowell, Rusty Staub, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Terry Leach, Todd Pratt, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Turk Wendell The Patron Saints of Pleasant Surprise smile down approvingly on what they’re seeing in the standings today, for the current Mets are, in a statistical sense, at one with them. AFTER 70 GAMES For those who haven’t been scoring at home for the past several decades (or those prone […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1984 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2012 Mets, Pleasant Surprises, Team History Did the Citi Field scoreboard start every Oriole batter’s count at 0 balls and 2 strikes Monday night? You know, just to save time? I’ve seen hitters obviously overmatched by pitchers. I’ve seen hitters who it could be assumed had little chance against dominant pitchers in ungodly grooves. I’ve seen hitters who had to know it […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Unhittable “I’m not sayin’ he should’ve killed her. But I understand.” Jon Niese threw one very bad pitch very early, Jay Bruce hit it very far and Saturday night’s ballgame was very over. Unfortunately another 8½ innings needed to be played and another 8½-thousand content-free words had to be needlessly issued via the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Etiquette, Injuries, Jason Bay, Mets Fans From hauling in the last out to partaking of the first slice, he’s still Cleon Jones. 10. Jason Bay. Ohmigod, wasn’t that awful? Naked Gun awful. I’m surprised the poor bastard’s head didn’t roll into foul territory. What’s left to say? 9. Scott Hairston. The Man for a night, albeit a lousy night on the field. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Childlike Wonder, Cleon Jones, Jason Bay, Left Fielders, Pizza, REO Speedwagon, Scott Hairston From: Clueless Editor <cluelesseditor@limitedimaginationpublishing.net> Dear Mr. Plimpton: We are in receipt of your book proposal, The Curiouser Case of R.A. Dickey and regret to inform you it does not suit our needs at this time. While your lead character R.A. Dickey is richly drawn, and his […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George Plimpton, Literary License, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Sidd Finch, Team History We know best-selling author R.A. Dickey is a person as well as a top-notch pitcher, and we like that about him, because it gives us one more reason to find him, as he likes to say, trustworthy. If you’d like to discover more R.A. for yourself, as I did, he’ll be signing copies of Wherever […] And this was before the Subway Series. Movies are almost always better when there’s a Mets element to them, whether it’s outsized, as in the key 1969 scenes from the current release Men In Black 3, or subtle, as in 1987’s Moonstruck, which had nothing explicit to do with the Mets back in the day […] |
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