1) It appears impossible to all but give away tickets to a Mets game in September, and that includes trying to all but give away tickets to people outside Citi Field who seem determined to go to the Mets game about to be played. Saturday afternoon was my annual Mets game with Jeff from Washington […]
 
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 |  Braves, Chipper Jones, Citi Field, Jeurys Familia, McFadden's, Oddball Behavior, Pat LaFrieda, Rain, September, Sterling Awards, T-shirts, Zack Wheeler “There’s nothing to fear but Faith and Fear itself!” Just as I’m the kind of fan who sticks it out at Citi Field to the ninth inning when the Mets are down by ten, I’m the kind of political junkie who stays tuned to C-Span after the prime time speeches and watches every bit of […] Party in the park! As noted yesterday, nice things can happen to people at Citi Field even when they’re not happening to the Mets. When they’re not happening to the Mets, I find myself too grumpy to dwell on them. But with the Mets on a scintillating two-game winning streak, I’m in a good […] Let’s get the part that made me mad out of the way: In the bottom of the first, Mike Baxter came to the plate for his first Citi Field at-bat since he was helped off the field on the night of June 1, after the amazing sprawling catch that preserved Johan Santana’s no-hit bid. In […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Ojeda, Citi Field, Food, Giancarlo Stanton, Mike Baxter Sunday was Father’s Day. My kid woke me up with a card he’d made. It showed us in the stands, with the figure in green with a mitt on one hand and a ball descending toward the two figures’ outstretched arms. The card read HOME RUN! Pretty nice way to start the day. We got to […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Dusty Baker, Fans, Fathers and Sons, Pepsi Porch Nobody can unearth a personal baseball milestone the way I can, yet other than acknowledging their existence — My 200th Win at Shea! My 500th Mets Game Anywhere! My 500th Regular Season Home Mets Game! — I don’t seem to do anything about them. Not this time, though. Not when I saw my 100th game at […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Commuting, Empathy, Jeremy Hefner, Milestones, Omar Quintanilla, Pitchers Hitting, R.A. Dickey, Scott Hairston, Treat Yo Self So for 10 days I was away from the Mets, but not away from baseball. In fact, there was quite a lot of baseball — through luck and a little driving, I was able to add three new ballparks to my list, bringing myself up to a respectable 15. I’ve now seen every big-league ballpark […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Stadium, AT&T Park, Ballparks, Citi Field, Fans, music, Petco Park, Safeco Field Somewhere around the poorly named 46th St-Bliss I got a little carried away: On Opening Day even the 7 local seems awesome. That wasn’t true. The 7 local is never awesome, particularly not when the MTA has decided that Opening Day at Citi Field is a fine time to do track work. But I swear it felt […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Johan Santana, Mets Opening Day, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Pastornicky “I don’t get drunk in front of people. I get drunk alone.” I might be more qualified than ever to tell you whether the Mets will sell you worthwhile food in the coming season, and not just because I took them up on their graciously issued invitation […] So one thing we knew was coming has arrived: Citi Field will shrink next year. The old walls will still be there, but in front of them will be new ones — lower and closer to home plate. They’ll more or less be in the places you read they’d be in, creating dimensions that are […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Fans, Jason Bay, Jeff Wilpon |
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