If you can handle a brief diversion from achy players and tetchy managers (not to mention defendant owners), it overjoys me to report that in a rare March game that counted and got my attention, it was USF 65 Cal 54 Wednesday night in Dayton. Really, it was more like Silent Cal, as they trailed your University […]
 
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. |
Tim Byrdak is slated to miss six weeks because of knee surgery. While we wish him well, what’s six weeks when compared to 72 years? And what’s torn meniscus cartilage next to a wet schmaltz sandwich? A wet schmaltz sandwich isn’t yet another injury for which Mets doctors have no known cure. Rather, it was a […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brooklyn Dodgers, Ebbets Field, Field Of Dreams, Injuries, Paul Waner, Pirates, Rainouts, Schmaltz Sandwiches, Spring Training, Tim Byrdak You’ve all seen it: The fan who draws back from the bar or the TV with a look somewhere between shock and disbelief on his or her face, then gets it together and manages to mutter, “Oh man … THIS TEAM.” If you’re true to the orange and blue, you’ve probably muttered that yourself a few […] Mike Pelfrey’s still here, isn’t he? And if he’s still here, he’s going to be Mike Pelfrey, isn’t he? It’s a fact of life. Pelf’s gonna go out there and drive us nuts. He’s gonna put somebody on the twelfth pitch of a 3-2 count that he started ahead 0-2, he’s gonna balk him over to […] Some lineup! I haven’t had the opportunity to open a freshly waxed pack of 2012 Topps baseball cards yet (it won’t truly be spring until I do), but I got to do something just about as good, probably better, a couple of weeks ago when my friend Sharon and I visited the Met. Not the […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Giants, Pumpsie Green, Willie Mays Monday night I did something I’m certain I hadn’t done since the twilight of Fran Healy. I turned down the sound on a Mets-generated telecast so I could listen to the game on radio. GKR heresy, I know, but I gave Gary, Keith & Ron part of the exhibition season opener off so I could […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Lorn Brown, Nino Espinosa, Radio, Wayne Hagin, WFAN, Willie Montanez Johan Santana lives! I saw it for myself via two innings of televised encouragement Tuesday. He pitched to the Cardinals, he emerged with his left arm attached to his left shoulder and he wasn’t diagnosed with a rare tropical disease on his way to the clubhouse. Talk about a super Tuesday. Everything else pales in comparison […] Tonight shortly after six, when Dillon Gee faces the Nationals’ Roger Bernadina with the first pitch that pretends to matter in 2012, strike one would be most preferable. Shortly thereafter, when Long Beach’s own John Lannan returns the favor sixty feet and six inches from Andres Torres, our new center fielder is advised to take […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Andres Torres, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Fundamentals, Ike Davis, Joe Frazier, REO Speedwagon, Scott Hairston, Spring Training, Terry Collins, Valley Fever, Zach Lutz Think of one’s attitude about the 2012 Mets as a scale. Let’s say the stuff that’s bad, depressing, worrisome, etc. goes on the left, and the good, happy, optimistic stuff goes on the right. BAD STUFF The team is broke Season preview, in something approaching verse… A is for Apple B is for Bay C is for Citi D is for Daniel |
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