1) It appears impossible to all but give away tickets to a Mets game in September, and that includes trying to all but give away tickets to people outside Citi Field who seem determined to go to the Mets game about to be played. Saturday afternoon was my annual Mets game with Jeff from Washington […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Chipper Jones, Citi Field, Jeurys Familia, McFadden's, Oddball Behavior, Pat LaFrieda, Rain, September, Sterling Awards, T-shirts, Zack Wheeler Whoa. I just woke up from the weirdest dream. The Mets were up 6-1, and it was a laugher. Totally easygoing Sunday night game, the kind you kind of stop paying attention to while still enjoying because you’re tired and starting to think about the week ahead and anyway you’ve won. All this cool stuff was […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jason Heyward, Jonathon Niese, Josh Edgin, Rob Johnson Dear brethren in Atlanta and Boston, We’ve been where you are. We know how you feel. Braves fans, on Aug. 25 your team led the Giants by 9 1/2 and were given 99.2% odds of making the playoffs. Sox fans, on Sept. 3 you were up by nine games on the Rays, with playoff odds of 99.6%. […] Sometimes it’s great when the Mets make a hash of my plans. Getting ready for today’s game, I had a promising albeit rather sorrowful blog post mapped out — it was going to deal with the Cyclones, the Sand Gnats, childhood and the inescapability of Chipper Jones. And that plan held after Chipper doubled in the […] It’s wonderful to be a Mets fan right now. It really is. While everybody tells jokes, the Mets have assembled a Quadruple-A lineup of guys who don’t do too much but do just enough, playing the game the right way, not shooting themselves in the foot and — DICKEY! WOULD YOU NOT DO THAT? I KNOW […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Balks, Braves, D.J. Carrasco, Frankie Rodriguez, Fredi Gonzalez, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Justin Turner, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston OK, actually half-bad is exactly what we are. But compared to what we were not so long ago…. It turns out nothing can stop Dillon Gee except thunder, lightning, lunatic gales and cruel but sensible precautions related to long rain delays and surgically repaired labrums. Our favorite advanced-stats conundrum mowed down the Braves for four innings, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Dillon Gee, Fans, Rain Delays, Stats, Storytelling The Mets remain the confoundingest team in the world. Tonight they beat the Braves rather handily behind R.A. Dickey’s fluttering knucklers and Jose Reyes’s regular dose of high-octane awesomeness. They did so by scoring runs early and often against Tim Hudson — enough runs to withstand their own late-inning swoon, as Manny Acosta reminded us […] Nothing like a little desperation and a helpful handful of Fredi Gonzalez to right your ship, or at least make your plane ride home from Atlanta a damn sight more pleasant than anything about your life has been in more than a week. Was it desperate to move Josh Thole into the two-hole? It certainly wasn’t […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chris Capuano, Dillon Gee, Fredi Gonzalez, Josh Thole, Managing, R.A. Dickey, Terry Collins, Winning Update: Audio! Now you can say TLDL instead of TLDR! Thought I’d post what I read at Varsity Letters’ fifth-anniversary shindig last week, for posterity but mostly because it’s a reflection on a Mets game we’d be better off to recall more often, particularly in these trying days. Odds are you’ll recognize it at once — […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Braves, Fans, Hope, John Rocker, Memories, Mike Piazza, Shea Stadium, Superstition Dad, I beg you to reconsider! Tractor pulls! Atlanta Braves baseball! Joe Franklin! The most comforting thing about watching Bobby Cox’s tenure as Braves manager end — besides knowing the Braves had lost, I suppose — was where […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, An Appreciation, Andy Griffith, Bobby Cox, Braves, Keith Olbermann, Managers, TBS, The Simpsons |
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