In retrospect, why were we surprised? Didn’t it stand to reason that David Wright would go down too? And didn’t it make sense that, having failed to injure himself sliding into third or stretching for a bag or descending the dugout steps or conducting other maneuvers that have waylaid unwary Mets, the cruel baseball gods […]
 
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 July 21, 2004, the Mets called up David Wright from Norfolk to play in their 94th game of the season. On July 21, 2009, David Wright played in the Mets’ 93rd game of this season. That means David Wright has been a big leaguer for precisely five seasons’ worth of Mets baseball. Of a possible […] Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 378 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 7/22/04 Th Montreal 12-11 Gl@v!ne 3 152-122 L 4-1 It’s […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2004 Mets, David Wright, Flashback Friday, Ty Wigginton Last week, New York magazine’s Intelligencer section noted David Wright was named the Police Athletic League’s athlete of the year…and presented a picture of former Chicago White Sox pitcher Dan Wright next to the item. This week, perhaps prompted by a flurry of complaints (or at least mine), the section wished a happy upcoming birthday […] Happy 25th birthday to No. 5 in your program and No. 1 on the backs of just about everybody who’s bought a Mets jersey in the last few years. Somehow I doubt David Wright is home playing his video game tonight. ”To be voted the most valuable player on the worst team in the history of major league baseball is a dubious honor, to be sure. But I was awarded a 24-foot boat equipped with a galley and sleeping facilities for six. After the season ended, I docked the boat in Ocean City, New Jersey, and […] When the National Leaguers take the field tonight in their previously futile quest for pride and home-field advantage, there will be a historic moment. David Wright will cross a foul line and position himself at third base as the first Met ever elected to man the hot corner in the Midsummer Classic. Don’t think that’s significant? […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Mets Third Base Song, Mets Third Basemen If we all agree on the not-such-a-stretch principle that David Wright is the best regular player ever produced by the Mets…make that if we all agree on the not-such-a-stretch principle that no regular player produced by the Mets has ever come as far as fast as David Wright has, then I won’t feel I’m rushing […] You an SCTV fan? If you are, then you’ll remember Monster Chiller Horror Theater, hosted by Count Floyd, Joe Flaherty’s version of every low-rent Friday night sci-fi filmfest emcee in every local market. What made it all the more resonant was that in its heyday, SCTV aired Friday nights at 12:30 on NBC (and is […] It has been two years, two months and a week since Edgardo Alfonzo signed with the San Francisco Giants. Not that I’m counting. I raged against the Metchine all through the winter of ’02-’03 over this crime against humanity, loyalty and good taste. The only things that got me through this dark period were the […] |
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