Late on a Sunday night in 1975, I’m watching Sammy & Company on Channel 4 because I’m up, it’s on, and nothing else is. The Sammy in question is Sammy Davis, Jr. He’s done it all in show business and now he’s hosting this syndicated not quite talk show, not quite variety show. It’s got […]
 
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. |
 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Clinchings, Closing Day, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hollering, Hooting, Jarred Kelenic, Joey Lucchesi, Karma, Mets Pop Culture, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Redemption, Sammy Davis, Screaming, Shouting, Spencer Schwellenbach, Travis d'Arnaud, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor The following is not to be construed as an endorsement of playing a regular-season baseball game on a Sunday night, particularly when that game was originally scheduled to be played on a Sunday afternoon, and it’s definitely not an endorsement of any television network that has purchased the contractual right to move this baseball game […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Closing Day, Closing Night, Edwin Diaz, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Jose Butto, Miracles, Old Friends, Pennant Race, Pete Alonso, Phil Maton, Phillies, Sunday Night Baseball, That Thing You Do, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor, Zack Wheeler By defeating Philadelphia on Saturday at Citi Field, the Mets elevated their win total to 86 while keeping their loss total at 69. Those are numbers a Mets fan likes to stare at as a playoff pursuit approaches its final turn. Invoking the two world championships in franchise history as a useful omen in the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Complete Wins, Echoes, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luisangel Acuna, Omens, Sean Manaea, Trust I can feel it coming. Maybe it’ll be this year, or in five or in 10, but it’s a when and not an if: My physician will settle himself or herself on a stool, make sure I’m paying attention, and say the inevitable words. Mr. Fry, you need to stop watching baseball. There will be alternatives offered: […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Marsh, Brandon Nimmo, Bryce Harper, Danny Young, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Luis Severino, Luisangel Acuna, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Phillies, Reed Garrett, Taijuan Walker, Trea Turner A couple of things I’ve finally figured out about pitchers in recent years of fandom: Their game logs are portraits of ebb and flow, and you assume the worst (or the best) at your peril. Jose Quintana looked like a prime candidate for “I’ll drive that guy to the airport myself” earlier this summer; his last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Buddy Kennedy, Cristopher Sanchez, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Heartbreak, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Mark Vientos, Nick Castellanos, Phillies, Pitchers, Tyrone Taylor, Weston Wilson Baseball, I’ve long insisted, is humanity’s acme of artistic expression. But that’s not to say every game is a work of art. Whatever that was that the Mets and Blue Jays foisted on us tonight would definitely not qualify. It was a mess, with Tylor Megill mowing down anonymous Blue Jay recruits (and a morose-looking Vladimir […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Danny Young, Ed Kranepool, Eddy Alvarez, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Jose Butto, Leo Jimenez, Pablo Reyes, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill LOOK WHO’S NO. 6 OK, maybe that message isn’t inspiring enough to make a September scoreboard in Queens, but it’s true: At this writing the Mets are a game ahead of the Braves for the third National League wild card, which is a fancy way of saying sixth in a league that now grants playoff spots […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Bill Spiers, Carson Spiers, Danny Young, Defense, Double Plays, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, J.D. Martinez, Jakob Junis, Jeff McNeil, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Pete Alonso, Reds, Sam Moll The Mets’ ebullient recent narrative showed a couple of cracks Friday night against the Reds. Francisco Lindor continued his hitting streak and made a nifty play at shortstop, but he didn’t walk off the Reds or solve the Middle East conflict in an idle moment between innings, somewhere between surprising and shocking given how he’s been […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexis Diaz, Brett Baty, Edwin Diaz, Elly de la Cruz, Hebrew Tattoos, J.D. Martinez, Jake Fraley, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Justin Wilson, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Reds, Reed Garrett, Sean Manaea, Spencer Steer, TJ Friedl, Walkoffs I liked it better when ballplayers talked about “turning the page” on bad days. Sometime in the past decade or so, turning the page morphed into flushing, and not the charming village in Queens whose northwestern edge we know so well. “You gotta flush it” became the page-turning mantra of choice. Maybe nobody reads printed […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Frank Deford, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Lost in Space, Pete Alonso, Sideways, Vernacular That was a bad one. A bad one as in you shut off the TV and kept fixing it with a thousand-yard stare. It’s even crueler because once upon a time that was a good one: The Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit, with Harrison Bader striking the big blow, then went ahead when Starling Marte […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Harrison Bader, Losses, Phil Maton, Starling Marte |
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