In addition to falling into the second base job (because legally you can’t just place an orange traffic cone between short and first), Brad Emaus seems to be the frontrunner for an award that is probably no more familiar to you than, well, Brad Emaus. He certainly qualifies as the favorite, which speaks less for […]
 
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 |  Anthony Young, Brad Emaus, Charlie Puleo, Dae-Sung Koo, Darren Reed, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Simons, Edgardo Alfonzo, Garth Brooks, Ike Davis, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, John Milner, Johnny Murphy, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Kelvin Chapman, Kevin Elster, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Lucas Duda, Mario Ramirez, Masato Yoshii, Melvin Mora, Mike Bruhert, Mike Draper, Orber Moreno, Pedro Beato, Pete Schourek, Roger McDowell, Ron Darling, Ron Gardenhire, Steve Bieser, Team History, Tim Leary, Tsuyoshi Shinjo Looking back, you could see that as the last moment when the sports business was at human scale, a club where everybody knew who was who. Why wouldn’t you want to be around baseball in December? It’s so much better than everything else December has to offer. Tuesday, December 14, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Media, Mets Holiday Party, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Winter If I’d told you back in March that September 28’s game would come down to whether somebody named John Axford could survive ninth-inning confrontations with Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Josh Thole and Ruben Tejada, you probably would have deduced that September 28’s game wouldn’t mean very much. And you would have been right, for this […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Corey Hart, Ike Davis, Nick Evans, Ruben Tejada In my last job I shared an office with Steve, an Englishman who was a passionate fan of Liverpool. Liverpool, Steve explained, was the football equivalent of the Mets — badly run, generally luckless and often an object of derision for other football fans. Steve loved them as much as I love the Mets, and […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Mike Nickeas, Ruben Tejada, Youth The audience may have dwindled to diehards who think Citi Field is marvelous on a misty, unseasonably cool evening and we hardcore devotees on our couches, but the Mets rewarded that smaller population of interested parties with a hell of a ballgame. It had Met pluck and verve and some Marlin pluck and verve too, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, Hanley Ramirez, Ike Davis, Luis Castillo On Umbrella Day at Citi Field, R.A. Dickey shielded Mets fans everywhere from the elements. Let the Phillies have Roy Oswalt (the big snot). No way he’s as perfect a righthanded addition to their rotation as R.A.’s been to ours. Kudos to Omar Minaya for making the under-the-radar acquisition of the century last December. Kudos to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ike Davis, R.A. Dickey, Rick Reed, Roy Oswalt, Terry Leach Fourteen out of fifteen isn’t bad, and, considering from how far back we traveled to get as far as we did, 8-7 in 13 isn’t inexcusable. But it still sucks to lose that way. Or lose at all. I hadn’t forgotten the feeling, no matter how unusual it had become to experience in 2010. The Streak — the […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Anthony Young, Blogging, Ed Kranepool, Eddie Murray, Ends of All Good Things, Ike Davis, Jaime Garcia, Johan Santana, Mike Hessman, Overmanaging, Ryan Thompson, Tony La Russa, Winning Streak “The Mets, who are desperately in search of a victory,” I just heard Gary Cohen say in the truncated version of Sunday’s rebroadcast, “have had their ace step up big-time,” which got me thinking, “Well, I wouldn’t call me their ace…” All right, I knew he was talking about Johan Santana, but c’mon — the Mets […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cora, Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Frankie Rodriguez, Ike Davis, Johan Santana, Winning Streak So the Mets lost a tight one to the Atlanta Braves tonight … and you’d assume it’s time for us all to jump off a bridge. Four games out and the Phillies came off the gurney to beat the Reds and Cliff Lee’s a Yankee Ranger and ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod ohgod. Except I can’t seem […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Cox, Braves, Chipper Jones, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Michael Tucker, R.A. Dickey, Rivalries, Team History, Yunel Escobar Word is it was 99 in the shade at Citi Field Sunday, yet right here, it feels a bit like ’99 in the Shea: The Mets are hot on the Braves’ heels, Bobby Valentine is basking in the media’s glare and the Mets’ infield has been warming to its task with uncommon aplomb. Highly uncommon, but […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Al Moran, Amos Otis, Anderson Hernandez, Argenis Reyes, Best Infield Ever, Bobby Heise, Bobby Pfeil, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Craig Brazell, David Wright, Dick Smith, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Expectations, Gary Rajsich, Homegrown Mets, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jason Hartdke, Jeff Gardner, Jim Hickman, Joe Moock, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Ken Boswell, Kevin Collins, Marco Scutaro, Nick Evans, Rey Ordonez, Rich Puig, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Salty Parker, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Tim Foli, Ty Wigginton, Wayne Garrett, Wes Westrum |
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