You want home runs at Citi Field, perennially notorious as a launching pad for next to nothing? Met home runs, that is? Then slate your Saturday dates for when many are thinking that it would sure be delicious to have a ballgame with lunch. An in-depth exploration of all […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Citi Field, Home Runs, J.D. Davis, Keon Broxton, Michael Conforto, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Saturday Afternoons, Steven Matz The baseball season ended Sunday, you might have noticed. Maybe you didn’t if you’re one of those people who insists you stopped watching the Mets by June, a good month to have looked away, I suppose. I never stopped looking, never stopped noticing, never stopped doing all […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 2018 Mets, Citi Field, Closing Day, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Rain Delays, Upsell It was, admittedly, one of those Everything Has to Go Perfectly ideas: Emily and I were landing at JFK a little after 4, taking the subway home to drop our luggage, then turning around and getting back on the subway to meet her father and our niece at Citi Field to see the Mets take […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Customer Service, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Replay Review, Zack Wheeler Five of us had tickets for the entire Mets-Phillies twi-night doubleheader Monday. More than five, according to official attendance figures, but I refer specifically to myself, the three people with whom I’ve been friends longer than anybody and the son of one of those people. I showed […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Citi Field, Corey Oswalt, David Wright, Doubleheaders, Old Friends, Shea Stadium, Showers, Waiting, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores Joe Posnanski, who writes lyrically and frequently about baseball, published a breezy piece last week titled “Ranking the Stadiums,” in which he identified Citi Field as one of the majors’ “Underrated Ballparks,” alongside Comerica Park and Angel Stadium. He elaborated, “I actually don’t know if Citi Field is underrated — I suspect most people who […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Gary Cohen, Joe Posnanski, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Padres, Warner Wolf I want to believe we’ll beat the Braves on Opening Day (you never know) and finish substantially ahead of them this season (probably, but I take nothing as a given). What’s sad is that Atlanta has lifted the lid on SunTrust Park — their fifteenth home in eighteen years — by moving ahead of us in […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield, Home Run Apple, Macintosh Club, Milestone Quarry, Sandy Koufax, SunTrust Park, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Utter Foolishness I went 615 miles to see the Mets and they didn’t look any better than they do at home. More like the Mehs. Meet the Mehs, meet the Mehs A few months ago Emily and I decided on an August ballpark tour: fly to Cleveland and see a game, drive to Detroit for a […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Comerica Park, Kelly Johnson, Noah Syndergaard, Tigers You know you’re having a good night when you can get picky over what kind of mammoth win you’d like your team to post. For those of us who remained to the bottom of the ninth inning at Citi Field Wednesday night of an obviously settled affair — and why would you leave when your […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citi Field, Complete Games, Gunnison sage-grouse, Howard Johnson, Johan Santana, John Valentin, Jon Niese, Kelly Johnson, Livan Hernandez, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, Miguel Batista, Nelson Figueroa, Noah Syndergaard, R.A. Dickey, Rene Rivera, Thor-Hitter, Wilmer Flores From the Better Late Than Never Department: The best thing about Wednesday night’s tilt with the Nationals, from my admittedly parochial perspective? It was getting to talk baseball with my blog partner, something we hadn’t done since the Daniel Murphy Game last October and hadn’t really done then, since at the time we were too busy […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Juan Lagares, Memories, Yoenis Cespedes Not to look past Opening Night in Kansas City, let alone the Mets’ last chance to end Spring Training without a loss or tie already yet, but what’s incredibly hard to believe is that in a week’s time, Citi Field will be filled again. I’ve really come around on the ol’ ballpark, probably because a pennant […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Bonilla, Casey Stengel, Citi Field, Utter Foolishness |
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