In addition to falling into the second base job (because legally you can’t just place an orange traffic cone between short and first), Brad Emaus seems to be the frontrunner for an award that is probably no more familiar to you than, well, Brad Emaus. He certainly qualifies as the favorite, which speaks less for […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anthony Young, Brad Emaus, Charlie Puleo, Dae-Sung Koo, Darren Reed, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Simons, Edgardo Alfonzo, Garth Brooks, Ike Davis, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, John Milner, Johnny Murphy, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Kelvin Chapman, Kevin Elster, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Lucas Duda, Mario Ramirez, Masato Yoshii, Melvin Mora, Mike Bruhert, Mike Draper, Orber Moreno, Pedro Beato, Pete Schourek, Roger McDowell, Ron Darling, Ron Gardenhire, Steve Bieser, Team History, Tim Leary, Tsuyoshi Shinjo As has become annual custom here on the day following the night the Oscars are presented, the Academy would like to pause for a moment to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. Joaquin Arias, 2010 Like my blog partner, I registered the wholly unexpected presence of Jason Isringhausen in Mets camp — and, however briefly, allowed myself to dream. Stories like Izzy’s are an object lesson in why it’s good that fans don’t run baseball teams. The reaction of the Sandy Alderson braintrust to Izzy’s availability, I’m sure, was a businesslike […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Disappointment, Generation K, Hope, Jason Isringhausen, Recidivst Mets, Team History This cold February day requires a box score to keep us warm. Thus, I shall toss upon the fire the box score from the first game of a twinight doubleheader at Shea Stadium, September 22, 1967, courtesy of Baseball Reference. It describes an 8-0 loss by the Mets to the Houston Astros, but I won’t […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Jerry Buchek, Jerry Cram, Jerry DiPoto, Jerry Grote, Jerry Hinsley, Jerry Koosman, Jerry Martin, Jerry May, Jerry Morales, Joe Grzenda, Names, Salty Parker, Team History, Willie Mays I’ve got a new piece up at the Times‘s Bats blog concerning a stealth Met icon. Learn about Pedro Feliciano’s place in Mets — and baseball — history by clicking here. Nothing could be more terrifying on Halloween than coming into contact with ghosts of Mets Who Almost Were. Tonight, with however many leftover fun size Milky Ways you choose as your companions, you’ll have the opportunity to turn on your television (your actual television) and have the blue and orange scared out of you by […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, A.J. Burnett, Ed Figueroa, Greg Olson, Halloween Hindsight Haunters, Jim Bibby, Joe Klink, Manny Lee, Mets Who Almost Were, Ned Yost, Nelson Cruz, Paul Blair, Quilvio Veras, Ron Washington, Scott Kazmir, Team History On a Sunday night in late August, viewers of Mad Men (whose season finale airs tonight at 10 on AMC) discovered Lane Pryce, British financial maven for ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, had tacked on his office wall a New York Mets pennant, the period-appropriate kind he might have bought at Shea Stadium or […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 2010 Mets, Attendance, Leonard Koppett, Mad Men, Mets Marketing, Mets Pop Culture, Team History George H.W. Bush, one of six U.S. presidents to have served while a Wilpon has been running the Mets, once attempted to combat perceptions that he was oblivious to people’s problems by declaring, “Message: I care.” Bill Clinton, the president who succeeded him when that message proved unconvincing, famously empathized with Americans, “I feel your […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Bill Clinton, Fred Wilpon, General Manager, George H.W. Bush, Hope, Jeff Wilpon, Jerry Manuel, Mets Managers, Omar Minaya, Ownership, public relations, Team History On September 28, 2010, Ruben Tejada came to bat in the bottom of the ninth inning with a pair of runners on base and the Mets down 3-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers. He belted a double to deep left field. Ike Davis scored from third. Pinch-runner Luis Castillo chugged home from first. The Mets, already […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Attendance, Bill Pulsipher, Craig Brazell, Jeff Francoeur, Jeromy Burnitz, Jerry Manuel, Jose Bautista, Lenny Harris, Luis Lopez, Mike Francesa, Mike Nickeas, One-Game Playoffs, Rangers, Rays, Ruben Tejada, Tampa Bay, Team History, The Ruben; Reds, The Simpsons, Tim Bogar, Tropicana Field, Victor Diaz, Walkoffs Just when you thought you’d never again see a 1998 Met in the big leagues — no one who knew the rare pleasure of dressing in the same clubhouse as Tony Phillips, Ralph Milliard, Todd Haney, Willie Blair and Jorge Fabregas — up stepped Jay Payton to emerge as this season’s Longest Ago Met Still […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Chen, Gary Matthews Jr., Jason Isringhausen, Jay Payton, Jeff D'Amico, John Thomson, Juan Acevedo, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scuatro, Melvin Mora, Mike Hampton, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Strickland, Team History, Ty Wigginton, Tyler Walker |
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