An amusing, apocryphal anecdote alluding to Gibson’s legendary power is told about a home run he hit in Pittsburgh. The ball jumped out of the park like it was shot out of a cannon, clearing the fence and sailing out of sight. The next day, in Philadelphia, a ball came down out of the sky […]
 
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. |
“Citi Field,” according to the 2010 Mets Media Guide, is “home to one of the longest ribbon boards in baseball.” That is most definitely not one of the Top 1,000 most interesting facts to be found in this otherwise indispensable publication. For that matter, the ribbon boards, when they’re flashing advertisements that have zero to […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2008 Mets, Angel Pagan, Bill Shea Bridge, Braves, Citi Field, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Hisanori Takahashi, Ike Davis, Infield Fly Rule, Jason Bay, Joe Christopher, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Nagging Regret, Opportunity, Ribbon Boards, Ron Hunt, Sacrifice Flies, Steve Trachsel, Triples 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: Comiskey Park (New) New […] In case you haven’t turned on ESPN in the last week, the NFL Draft is in progress. It began Thursday night and it runs through late June. Makes for captivating theater, as in you’d have to hold me captive to get me to sit inside Radio City Music Hall for all 481 rounds of it. Correction: […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, David Wright, Ed Kranepool, Football, Frankie Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana Violinist Issac Stern played great music. Writer Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote great fiction. First baseman Issac Benjamin Davis made a helluva catch on a foul popup in the first inning of Wednesday’s otherwise desultory Met loss. All these Isaacs were blessed with a talent for doing something most people can’t. Stern was awarded the Presidential Medal […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Carlos Baerga, Dave Roberts, David Cone, David Newhan, Elliott Maddox, George Foster, Greg Goossen, Ike Davis, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Isaac Stern, Jim Fregosi, Joe Ginsberg, Manny Acosta, Metropolitan-American, Mike Jacobs, Norm Sherry, Scott Schoeneweis, Seaverite, Shawn Green, Tobi Stoner, Woody Allen [T]he only name anyone sings in the Yorkshire ale houses, raising their stinking jars to their stinking mouths, is Brian Clough. Brian Clough über-fucking-alles! Understand? I don’t know when it will be 2006 again for the Mets. I don’t know when we’ll have a regular season in which we praise our lads […] It’s great to be young and a Met, Ike Davis could tell you after his most successful major league debut Monday night. The 23-year-old first baseman was the toast of Citi Field from the moment he showed up wearing No. 42. If ever anybody stood out in a mononumeric crowd, it was this kid who […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2008 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Cautionary Tales, Chris Jones, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Great Starts, Hope, Ike Davis, Mark Clark, Mike Jacobs Pirates manager Jim Leyland took issue with the team’s We Play Hardball promo. “We can’t say we play hardball, I’m tired of that bleep,” he said. Adam Wainwright gave the Cardinals everything they could have asked for Sunday night: a 107-pitch complete game victory. John Maine gave the Mets everything […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Wainwright, Brent Gaff, Brian Costa, Charlie Daniels, Daveotronic 5000, Felipe Lopez, Frank Catalanotto, Hype, Iron Man McGinnity, Jerry Manuel, Joe Mather, John Maine, Jon Heyman, Luis Castillo, Major League, Marketing, Michael Kinsley, Mike Birkbeck, Mike Jacobs, Office Space, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, Raul Valdes, Rick Aguilera, Tobi Stoner Winning in 20 innings by using 24 Mets who accumulated 9 hits despite batting against 2 Cardinal position players for the last 3 of those innings has generated some truly deep thinking among our readers, as evidenced by our unusually busy (for a Sunday) comments section and in-box. It’s great stuff, particularly the following, an […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2010 Mets, Al Jackson, Bill Russell, Billy Cowan, Bob Shaw, Bobby Klaus, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Cliff Floyd, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Ernest Hemingway, Felipe Lopez, George Stone, George Theodore, J.C. Martin, Jack Fisher, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Brewer, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Karim Garcia, Ken Boswell, Marathon, Orlando Cepeda, Pete Richert, Phil Hennigan, Randy Johnson, Rusty Staub, Rutgers, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ubaldo Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson, World War I Tim McCarver called it a classic. The Baseball Tonight crawl called it a classic. Yet don’t mistake long for excellent. That was not a classic. It was certifiably long, the final result was immensely preferable to the alternative, and there were certainly aspects of it to like and even treasure, but that 20-inning Mets win […] 53 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20-Inning Game, Absurdity, Albert Pujols, Alex Cora, Artie Ziff, C.B. Bucknor, Ed Sudol, Felipe Lopez, Frankie Rodriguez, Futility, Galen Cisco, Hank Webb, Jeff Francoeur, Joe Mather, Johan Santana, Jose Oquendo, Jose Reyes, Kyle Lohse, Les Rohr, Luis Castillo, Marathon, Mike Pelfrey, Ralph Wiggum, Raul Valdes, Ron Darling, Ryan Ludwick, Tim McCarver, Tom Gorman, Tony LaRussa, Yadier Molina |
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