The fans try so hard. I can say that as an observer rather than as a participant on Saturday, sitting as I was in the zone of detached decorum known as Citi Field’s press box. I couldn’t react, except in my head, to every entreaty from the A/V squad that urged the crowd to keep […]
 
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. |
What a spectacular top of the first inning in Philadelphia Thursday night! And what a moving eight innings of respectful silence in the top halves of each frame that followed. That was pretty much that where the current Mets were concerned in their sixth consecutive loss. Thus, let us turn our attention to Mets of yore. […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1969 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, Art Shamsky, Benny Agbayani, Ed Kranepool, Harrison Bader, Ike Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jim Bethke, Jim Marshall, Mets Alumni, Moment of Silence, Todd Zeile I hope SNY, having sat Jose Reyes in the studio co-anchor chair next to Gary Apple this weekend, never gives our old shortstop any “how to be on TV” lessons, because he’s wonderful as is. On the postgame show Friday night, following the Mets’ 9-1 loss in Pittsburgh, Apple asked Reyes about falling victim to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Blade Tidwell, Cliff Cook, Colin Poche, Craig Anderson, Galen Cisco, Jay Hook, Jim Marshall, Jose Reyes, Mets Alumni, Mitch Keller, Names, Pirates, Rick Herrscher, Scores, Team History, Vinegar Bend Mizell Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Well you’re a real tough cookie In 1962, the Mets promised their fans that Shea Stadium would be ready for 1963. It wasn’t. So instead, they invited them […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Jay Horwitz, Mets Alumni, Polo Grounds, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium It was reasonably fitting that Jay Payton stopped by the SNY booth in the bottom of the fourth inning Friday night. Jay and Butch Huskey are this weekend’s special guest alumni at Citi Field. If you haven’t noticed, every Friday the Mets welcome home a pair of former players to meet the press, sign autographs […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Jay Payton, Mets Alumni, Timing, Trade Deadline, Zack Wheeler |
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