 
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. |
“May I help you?” “Is this where I can buy Mets tickets?” “Yes it is.” “Great. I'd like two for Friday night, September 12 against the Braves.” “We have those.” “Say, if it rains, can I come anyway?” “Absolutely.” “And can I sit and wait for a couple of hours?” “We encourage it.” “If there's no realistic chance the game will be played, can […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 392 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 10/7/01 Su Montreal 10-9 Rusch 9 134-101 L 5-0 None […] Field Level was always aspirational. It was the part of Shea you saw on TV, the part of Shea closest to the Mets, the part of Shea that was listed first when you thought about buying tickets. Beginning in the middle of 1980, it was flaming orange, which gave it cachet (or ca-Shea) to burn. That […] I don't know what our new closer's entrance music is. I look up in the top of the ninth and he's on the mound. A few minutes later, there's a receiving line of Mets exchanging hearty congratulations. A fella could get used to this. Best wishes and speedy recovery to one William Edward Wagner, as indicated here […] As if Newsday really had to spell it out for us. “I have to go home.” “You are home.” —William Miller and Penny Lane on tour with Stillwater in Almost Famous You going to a game? You go to the game — then you go home. Not Sunday. Not the day-night doubleheader. The first rule of day-night doubleheader is it is not a doubleheader. A doubleheader is two for […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Carlos Delgado, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Johan Santana Billy Wagner used to be the closer for the New York Mets. He's going in for surgery on his left flexor pronator and MCL. I don't know what a flexor pronator is exactly, but MCL stands for Mets Closer Lost for this season and next. Wagner's contract is up at the end of '09, by […] How very strange to endure a Saturday in the middle of a pennant race with no pennant race, at least not the only pennant race that matters. It turns out, however, the baseball season continued elsewhere. Who knew there even was an elsewhere? Elsewhere… The Diamondbacks have ceded first place to the Dodgers. The Rockies are not performing […] There was this bizarre humming sound that popped up a couple of times from behind Loge on the first base side Friday night. Maybe it was audio feedback. Maybe it was the Martians homing in on Grovers Mill again. Or it could have been a monitor indicating a case of flatlining. The Mets, the crowd, all […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 387 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 9/5/98 Sa Atlanta 5-7 Jones 14 70-69 W 5-4 Before […] |
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