Batting cleanup in any order: Casey The Cat. Get a load of that tongue! It was like something you’d find on Shaquille O’Neal’s left sneaker. How long was it? It was so long that half the time Casey couldn’t seem to stick it back in his mouth. Or maybe he just liked to have it ready […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, Casey the Cat, Cats, Flashback Friday If you wear it, they will come…or something like that. Our own Mets Guy in Michigan Iowa, Dave Murray, bears the numbers of four New York National League legends as he looks for a pickup game against Joe Jackson and the rest of the 1919 Black Sox on a recent visit to Dyersville, site of the field from Field […] Grant would be gone not all that long after June 15, 1977. And Tom would be remembered always. Saving our Mets, however, would take a while. Popular? Original? Mets? Yup on all three, especially Ralph Kiner, now in his 46th season of handling a radio-TV assignment. Now that’s a star. Bernie The Cat, on a winter’s evening in 1994, is as ready for his closeup as he’s gonna get.Note a) the Sprockets look I sported for this photo shoot; b) our devotion to yet another cat (and his overwrought asthma-hound Chihuahua companion) from the early ’90s; and c) my enduring pride at having attended […] The Empire State Building reflects reality far better than the mainstream media. This is Willie Mays of the New York Mets as captured by Topps for 1973. I still can’t believe he played for us. Based on content, I think this is my favorite card ever. 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Baseball Cards, Flashback Friday, Willie Mays pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright pleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallrightpleasebeallright Just call us the Julio Franco and Carlos Gomez of fans. Combine an ice-cream crash and two hours of yelling and you get a tired boy destined to be dead weight on his mother’s lap from about Woodside to Grand Central. Our seats were so good this Saturday that we had at our fingertips the vaunted Metropolitan Club menu in our cup holders (hell, we had cup holders), though none of us ordered from said ritzy document. I’m hayseed enough to be intimidated by this option. Besides, even though it’s been been a part of the Shea […] |
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