The Mets won their 67th game ever at Turner Field on Sunday, or as reliable sources continue to insist, “They never won there; even if you present me with a list of occasionally stirring Met victories in that ballpark, I refuse to acknowledge it.” Mets fans who prefer misery as company (and there are a […]
 
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. |
 26 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Braves, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Peaches, Perceptions, Seth Lugo, Turner Field, Yoenis Cespedes That’s what I was thinking in the 10th inning, with the Mets trying everything in their bag of tricks to keep the Braves from winning the game and kicking them — let’s hope temporarily — out of the second wild-card spot. I’m not sure I’m emotionally tall enough to ride this attraction. In the early going, Saturday […] 33 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adonis Garcia, Braves, Ender Inciarte, Josh Smoker, T.J. Rivera, Turner Field, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes If the season had ended on July 9, the New York Mets would have been the undisputed second Wild Card in the National League, a status that could not be applied to them again until nearly two months later, last night, September 8. So it’s good thing the season didn’t end, because it would have […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballpark Goodbyes, Half-Games, Team History, Turner Field What was Chipper Jones doing in the Mets clubhouse before Saturday night’s game at Turner Field? Presumably signing over the deed on the joint to the visiting team. Remember when Larry was loathed and Turner was terrifying? Vaguely. Like the Atlanta Braves who made the National League Eastern Division their private hunting preserve, it all seems […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1997 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Amazin' Again, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobby Jones, Braves, Butch Huskey, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Greg McMichael, John Franco, Juan Lagares, Neil Walker, Steven Matz, Sun Trust Park, Team History, The Shawshank Redemption, Turner Field, Worms That Turn For the first few games of the season happiness at having baseball back outweighs what actually happens on a given night. But then there’s a game that leaves you disgusted and sputtering profanities. Baseball, you think, is being very, very bad to you. For me, tonight was that night. It was Dillon Gee handing out doubles […] The Braves are out of the playoffs — and their cause of death was the Mets. The Pirates beat the Brewers, and the Mets finished the deed with a 10-2 decimation that didn’t seem as close as that score suggests. Let us therefore now observe a moment of silence … whoa, I seem to have badly misspelled […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Fredi Gonzalez, Hatred, Jacob deGrom, Turner Field I’m not even mad anymore. What’s the use? A couple of quick factoids: The Mets are horrible in one-run games — a hard-to-accomplish 10-20. (Only the Royals are comparably bad at 9-16, which is pretty much the difference between them and the Tigers.) Some of that — quite possibly a lot of that — is probably buzzards’ luck. But it counts, and it’s […] What a kick in the ol’ Brian Bohanons that was Monday night in Atlanta. Three pitches in, the Mets lead on a Curtis Granderson home run. Three innings in, the Mets are ahead, 3-0. Zack Wheeler isn’t sharp but he isn’t exactly shaky, either, at least once he gets going. The Mets, per usual, stop […] I’m still trying to confirm that Veterans Day has an April Fools component to it, because the bit I read Monday about the Braves moving out of currently 17-year-old Turner Field three years from now makes for quite the doozy, the whopper and the priceless gag. Hats off, fellas, I wanna say. But it’s apparently real, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Braves, Cobb County, Time, Turner Field There’s an old joke about an inveterate optimist and a pile of horse manure, the punch line of which is, “There’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere.” And indeed, you’d think that after the last 18 innings of steaming, redolent folderol in Atlanta, the least the Mets would be able to pull out of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, C.B. Bucknor, Dale Scott, Fox, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, R.A. Dickey, Tim Byrdak, Turner Field |
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