Interrupting Dillon Gee’s good work and some hockey game of local interest to note Saturday’s New York Times includes an essay by yours truly on the Mets’ revival of Banner Day, coming to a ballpark near you Sunday. You can read it here.
 
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. |
On Saturday, the Mets will distribute 25,000 bobbleheaded likenesses of Daniel Joseph Staub, which is not the same thing as actual likenesses — the resemblance is primarily hair-deep — and may not be enough for the club to satisfy the honoree’s stated wish that “everyone comes out and gets one.” Nobody likes to imagine Customers […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bobbleheads, Bobby Valentine, Bones Ely, Casey Stengel, Charlie Hough, Connie Mack, Davey Johnson, Dazzy Vance, Dick Tidrow, George Foster, Jim Leyland, Larry Bowa, Longevity, Mike Torrez, Nellie Fox, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tom Paciorek, Tug McGraw In light of the dreary weather through which all concerned were compelled to muck Thursday night, the New York Mets have announced tickets from their 11-5 loss to the San Diego Padres can be redeemed for complimentary admission to tonight’s game. But only if you’ve been bad. Your conscience would have to wracked by a gaggle of […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Eric Stults, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Padres, Rain, Rob Johnson On Friday the Toronto Blue Jays made Jon Niese into their personal pinata, whacking him all over the ballpark. It was the worst start of his young career, a game that ended with Rob Johnson on the mound and doing a lot better than the guy he’d started the game catching. Today, Niese handcuffed the Pittsburgh […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dan Warthen, Jonathon Niese, Rob Johnson, Statistics Ike Davis is neither here nor there right now, which is a shame for Ike and a shame for the Mets. He’s not here in the sense of looking like he’s a part of a team when it’s having its ups, as it did Tuesday night behind R.A. Dickey’s 11 dancing strikeouts, and it’s become […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Ike Davis, James McDonald, Mike Nickeas, R.A. Dickey, Slumps I sensed trouble from the start. I’m not sure why I did — the ball Neil Walker hit to begin the bottom of the Pirates’ eighth wasn’t going out and wasn’t parachuting in. It was ticketed for short of the warning track, a quick trot at worst for either the left fielder or the center fielder. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, Pirates, PNC Park Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but given a punchless Mets lineup with too many dudes looking up at the Mendoza Line and David Wright […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brian Knight, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Umpiring The Toronto Blue Jays? They still have those? That’s not meant to be a slam on the level of Bill Terry’s notorious “is Brooklyn still in the league?” or Charlie Dressen’s equally karma-busting “the Giants is dead!” But the dynastic Jays of the early ’90s and their dome that seemed so of the moment haven’t been front […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pecota, Blue Jays, Bob Geren, David Wright, Derek Bell, Dwight Gooden, Hideo Nomo, Position Players Pitching, Rob Johnson, Robert Carson, SCTV Jason and I took advantage of our self-employed status to enjoy an ad hoc self-employed businessman’s special at Citi Field Thursday afternoon. Our respective gaggles of gigs may not guarantee the most secure of financial existences, but when you can get up and go to a weekday afternoon game, I’d have to say there are […] |
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