On the Friday afternoon of May 3, 1996, while the Mets played the Cubs at Wrigley Field on the tiny TV I kept in my office for the stray Channel 9 game, something work-related pissed me off tremendously. I couldn't tell you what anymore, but in the habit I used to have that I've either […]
 
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. |
If you can’t find you or anyone like you portrayed in an overblown, cartoonishly acted eight-part series about a time you remember living through, too, relax — it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Except for one month as a telemarketer my junior year in college (we sold memberships to the Hillsborough County Police […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1977 Mets, Flashback Friday, Newsday, Shea Stadium Turnabout is foul play. Bleah, bleah, bleah…ptui! I spit out this horrible ending to what could have been a beautiful game. Willie Harris pulling an Endy out of his grabhole — leaving ample room for the shoving up of any bats we haven’t already wished plunged high, far and deep up Chipper/Teixeira way — and robbing Carlos […] Mike Bacsik, a New York Met in 2002 and 2003, gave Barry Bonds the pitch that became his 756th home run. Barry Bonds gave Mike Bacsik a bat in appreciation, inscribing it: “To Mike, God Bless. Barry Bonds” Barry Bonds can ask for a whole mess of Mets pitchers to be blessed for getting him to 756. […] Mets fans liven up every gathering, so much so that the dullest of affairs (a nondescript Washington Nationals victory, for example, for example) can become a mob scene when one of us is spotted. That’s how it went for Matt Murphy of Queens, a Mets fan who presumably couldn’t get a ticket for the big […] Barry Bonds just became baseball's all-time home run king. He hit his 756th against a slightly familiar lefty on the Washington Nationals. Some slightly familiar company he keeps: Jack Fisher gave up the home run that tied Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. Tracy Stallard gave up the home run that broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. Steve […] Why can't pitchers hit even a little better? Who knows more about pitching? Why don't catchers facing a pitcher they used to catch hit .750 against that pitcher? Who knows more about that pitcher's thinking? Why are so many pitchers so nuts about not allowing anyone to talk to them on the days they start? Will they […] Ernie Banks became famous at Wrigley Field for, among 512 other things, suggesting, “Let’s Play Two!” Dave Murray doubled up on Mr. Cub by heading to the North Side of Chicago on Saturday and wearing four…the four retired Mets numbers featured on the now classic Faith and Fear in Flushing t-shirt. As Dave recounts at the […] It was neat. That's the word my vocabulary sent up to describe the sensation of watching Billy Wagner retire Mike Fontenot and secure Tom Glavine's 300th career (and 58th New York Mets) win Sunday night. Some round numbers are more spherical than others and this one is a perfect circle. Perfectly neat. The guy's career began 20 […] Things I already admired about Tom Glavine the Met (really). A one-hit shutout of the Rockies that sounded as close to the real thing as I’ve ever heard. Two legitimate All-Star berths. Eight innings, two hits and no walks to win one for Ralph Kiner. Domination of the Dodgers and the Cardinals when it counted most. At least 15 decisions […] |
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