Beautiful Wrigley Field isn’t quite so beautiful when it is lit by electric as opposed to natural means. Ever since the Mets had their lights turned out on August 9, 1988, losing to the Cubs in what became Wrigley’s first official night game (following a rainout the ballyhooed night before), it seems mostly bad befalls […]
 
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 |  1962 Mets, 1989 Mets, An Appreciation, Andrew Brown, Dallas Green, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Eric Campbell, Jeff McKnight, Mike Conforto, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Rick Wrona, Third Base, Wrigley Field Every baseball fan worth her salt knows it’s one of the fundamental rules of fandom: You extrapolate from Opening Day at your peril. Collin Cowgill‘s grand slam on Opening Day 2013 didn’t kickstart a 162-0 season and a World Series title, or keep Cowgill in the major leagues until early May. On Opening Day 1969 Tom Seaver […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Bobby Parnell, Collin Cowgill, David Wright, Fans, Hope, Opening Day After eight and a half innings, I had a little roadmap of tonight’s post scrawled on a bit of scratch paper: Another chapter of Mets payroll football, starring Sandy Alderson as Charlie Brown 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Gary Cohen, Giants, Josh Satin, Juan Centeno, Matt den Dekker, The Holy Books, Zach Lutz Lucas Duda spent the spring trudging around left field until an intercostal strain and a dose of reality dictated that he stop. He then spent the summer in Las Vegas. When he returned, he went from left field to left out, with first base occupied by fellow reclamation project Ike Davis. Then Ike strained something (the […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Brad Hand, Giancarlo Stanton, Lucas Duda, Rick Ankiel When Dillon Gee pitches, the Mets maintain an excellent chance to win even though he doesn’t overpower hitters. And when multiple Mets hit home runs when a pitcher of Gee’s caliber pitches…well, look for yourself in case you forgot there was a game Wednesday afternoon. I didn’t, because I generally don’t, and I enjoyed the resulting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Al Moran, Andrew Brown, Choo Choo Coleman, Dillon Gee, Duke Carmel, Ed Kranepool, Home Runs, Joe Hicks, Leonard Shecter, Lucas Duda, Pumpsie Green, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tim Harkness, Tracy Stallard First reaction: We endured more than we won. And man were the other guys dopey. If Miguel Montero doesn’t drop the ball at home plate on Josh Satin’s single with one out in the ninth, Marlon Byrd is out by seven or eight feet and we probably lose in regulation and mutter a lot. Up one […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Brown, Cody Ross, John Buck, Kirk Gibson, Terry Collins The New York Mets have thus far this offseason, when not trading reigning National League Cy Young Award winners, procured the services of the following players with non-Mets major league experience: Josh Rodriguez, infielder, 28 years old, 7 MLB games (2011); Jamie Hoffmann, outfielder, 28 years old, 16 MLB games (2009, 2011); Anthony Recker, catcher, 29 years old, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Andrew Brown, Anthony Recker, Brandon Hicks, Brian Bixler, Carlos Torres, Collin Cowgill, Greg Burke, Jamie Hoffmann, Josh Rodriguez, R.A. Dickey, The Breakfast Club |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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