It was sometime after nine o’clock in the morning Thursday. Seattle and Oakland were playing the second game of the regular season in Tokyo. The date was March 21. The year was 2019. Ichiro Suzuki was being celebrated for concluding a career that spanned two continents and […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Free Agency, Future Shock, Ichiro Suzuki, Japan, Mike Trout, Rules Changes, Tom Seaver The phone rang while I was catching up on my Nashville — Juliette Barnes is quite the handful — after I finished watching whatever it was I watched the bulk of Wednesday evening. It was the copy desk calling. Apparently I was keeping them waiting. “Yeah?” 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ichiro Suzuki, Jack Leathersich, Losing, Michael Cuddyer, Nashville In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores |
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