If there’s no clock in baseball, why is the time of game listed? Seems antithetical to the spirit of the enterprise. Then again, Shea Stadium’s original scoreboard reserved prominent space for a clock bearing the Longines logo, and later its auxiliary scoreboards flashed the digital time from Armitron. If we truly weren’t supposed to be […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Wright, Josh Beckett, Marathons, Team History, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Time Some won-lost records just jump out at me. For example, the Mets losing Sunday and falling to 20-23 sparked my recognition that the Mets hit that very same mark 24 years earlier. In 1990, losing and falling to 20-23 presented a platform for firing the most successful manager in franchise history. After guiding the Mets to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Davey Johnson, Milestones, Records, Team History A couple of years ago I went on book tour in April and added three new parks — Safeco, AT&T and the Big A — to my ledger of stadiums visited. I just got back from another book tour, one that followed the Johnny Cashian itinerary of Indianapolis-Chicago-St. Louis-Seattle-Carlsbad-San Francisco-Phoenix-Houston-Nashville, leading me to conclude that recently […] Zack Wheeler will be 24 years old on May 30. This is easy to forget, but we’d do well to remember it. He’s a work in progress. Wheeler lost today against the Nationals, victimized by Wilson Ramos, dimwitted baserunning by his teammates, Ian Desmond and his own command. There’s no particular shame in falling prey to […] FREE [SO-AND-SO]!!! It’s a common cry when things start to go south for a team, meant to rally the segment of the fanbase that self-identifies as sensible, but it can be used in different ways. Sometimes it’s a sabermetric cudgel for bashing those whose reliance on “old” stats keep them from seeing an underutilized player’s true value. […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Abreu, Eric Young Jr., Juan Lagares, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores The place: Cooperstown, New York. Let’s listen in… It would be easy to look back on my career, filled as it is with Gold Gloves, MVP awards and world championship rings, and say it was predestined. […] Subway Series wins used to exhilarate me to a 52 on a scale from 1 to 10. The wins from this past Monday and Tuesday rated a 9.8 and a solid 7, respectively. Not bad, but not Matt Franco. Subway Series losses, when the Subway Series was new, cast black clouds all about me. From […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Derek Jeter, Jacob deGrom, Subway Series There are nights when you love how much you love sports. And then there are nights like Wednesday when you prefer to drown your sporting sorrows in prime time soap operas. The Nets, who occasionally lift my spirits in spite of my knowing that eventually they will find a way to pull them down, mishandle them […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Josh Edgin, Kyle Farnsworth, Masahiro Tanaka, Nashville, Rafael Montero, Relief Pitching, Subway Series Just for an evening, it would be pretty fun to be a big-league ballplayer. I don’t mean as a walk-on — a Joe Boyd thrust onto a stage not normally yours. I mean, wouldn’t it be fun to be an invisible traveling companion — someone who could see what the player sees, hear what the […] GAME NOTES: The Mets scored nine runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … The Mets belted four home runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … Curtis Granderson, Eric Young and Travis d’Arnaud all took advantage of Yankee Stadium’s extremely generous right field dimensions, each hitting a short-porch […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric Young Jr., Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mets Win, Rafael Montero, Saul Katz, Subway Series, The 7 Line, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees Lose |
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