Come Monday, the Mets are slated to introduce nine men who’ve never been Mets before. When the names Scott Atchison, John Buck, Greg Burke, Marlon Byrd, Collin Cowgill, Latroy Hawkins, Brandon Lyon, Anthony Recker and Scott Rice are called, I’ll applaud because they are now part of my team. Some may disappear from the roster […]
 
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 |  2013 Mets, Bobby Smith, Moment of Silence, The Spinners I’ve decided there are three junctures of the Spring Training schedule that make the endless nature of the exhibition interregnum worthwhile. First, there’s that inaugural Spring Training broadcast, when those voices you value most greet you for the first time in a proper context in months. You might have heard them announcing hockey or college basketball […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Collin Cowgill, Jordany Valdespin, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Marlon Byrd, Matt den Dekker, Mike Baxter, Outfield, Spring Training I’m David Wright My best’s what I’ll give This is a great honor My face is familiar “When you’re dating,” Shrevie (Daniel Stern) advised Eddie (Steve Gutenberg) in 1982’s Diner, “everything is talking about sex. Where can we do it? Why can’t we do it? Are you parents gonna be out so we can do it?” I was having conversations like those in 1982, though my “it” was usually different from the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Brandon Lyon, Contenders, Diner, Ike Davis, Michael Bourn, Ramon Ramirez, Sandy Alderson The New York Mets have thus far this offseason, when not trading reigning National League Cy Young Award winners, procured the services of the following players with non-Mets major league experience: Josh Rodriguez, infielder, 28 years old, 7 MLB games (2011); Jamie Hoffmann, outfielder, 28 years old, 16 MLB games (2009, 2011); Anthony Recker, catcher, 29 years old, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Andrew Brown, Anthony Recker, Brandon Hicks, Brian Bixler, Carlos Torres, Collin Cowgill, Greg Burke, Jamie Hoffmann, Josh Rodriguez, R.A. Dickey, The Breakfast Club At 3:59 PM EST this afternoon, New York Mets baseball will step outside, see its own shadow and scurry back indoors for what will seem like another couple of centuries of winter, but fret not. It will be at that very moment that we have reached the Baseball Equinox, that juncture on the Spherical Horsehide Calendar […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Aaron Laffey, Baseball Equinox, Giancarlo Stanton These days SNY’s broadcasts are a showcase for not only horrific baseball but also acres and acres of unoccupied green seats. The Mets are touting increasingly desperate ticket plans — you can get into Citi Field for a steep discount by bringing a child, a Pepsi can, enthusiasm for R.A. Dickey or, quite possibly, a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Marketing, Opening Day Deals, Sales It seems more than a trophy and some t-shirts should be at stake when you wear the title “World Champions”. I wanna see some real consequences, some real responsibilities. So, San Francisco Giants — if you are indeed championing all of us in this world, what the hell are you going to do about this […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, 2013 Mets, Giants, World Series Ending Just for an instant, a halo formed around the 2012 Mets. It happened when Bryan Petersen swung through Bobby Parnell’s two-out, one-two pitch in the bottom of the ninth at Marlins Park early Wednesday evening. It was strike three, but Kelly Shoppach couldn’t hold onto it. Petersen dutifully took off for first, but Shoppach found […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Closing Day, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fans, Scott Hairston To paraphrase the sentiments first expressed on the cusp of the Great Depression by folk musician Blind Alfred Reed, how can a Mets fan stand such times and live? The Mets rarely win after the All-Star break; they never win at Citi Field; they haven’t won more than they’ve lost in four years; they haven’t […] |
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