Summer and Jacob deGrom’s first big league win each arrived in good stead on Saturday. Summer, as the artificial-lemonade commercials used to tell us, is only here a short while. DeGrom, one hopes, will stick around so long that the length of his career will rival the length of his locks. Paradoxically, time of game […]
 
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 |  1964 Mets, 1974 Mets, 1984 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2004 Mets, Craig Swan, Doug Sisk, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jim Bunning, John Franco, Mike Remlinger, Mike Stanton, Milestones, Rick Wise, Summer, Team History, Tom Seaver If you are a spiritual descendant of Virginia of “yes, Virginia…” fame this Christmas Day, you may want to take the following observation with a grain of salt or at least an ounce of nog. When the Mets were done hosting Queens schoolchildren last week and the player who took on the role of Santa Claus […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Eric Young Jr., John Franco, Mets Holiday Party, Santa Claus, The Sopranos “One night against San Antonio, we announced a crowd of eight hundred and six, and I sat there during halftime and I started counting the people in the stands, and my best guess is there were really about four hundred people at the game. And I went up to Rudy Martzke, who was then the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Caesars Club, Customer Service, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, John Franco, Suspended Games, Tickets Ike Davis…he was at that Mets holiday party a couple of weeks ago, too. His attendance got kind of lost in the shuffle given the kerfuffle that was kicked up by the remarks of his (now erstwhile) teammate, but Ike’s presence at Citi Field on December 11 was both comforting and intriguing for several reasons. First […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Babylon, Camp Simcha, Ike Davis, John Franco, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Long Island, Mets Holiday Party, New York Cuban Giants, Robert Moses Not only do I root for a team that’s pitched a no-hitter in its life, but that team’s current iteration more or less seems to be in first place. It’s a three-way tie, and some percentage points don’t work in its immediate favor, but one-third of the season is complete and the New York Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, First Place, John Franco, Mets Hall of Fame I was thinking about t-shirts before Jeff Wilpon hung one in every Met’s locker today. On Friday I finally got around to enhancing my t-shirt drawers with Super Bowl XLVI wear. Meant to run right out after the Giants won and stock up…but I didn’t. That was all right for two reasons: 1) When I finally […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jeff Wilpon, John Franco, John Stearns, Motivational Tactics, T-shirts, Turk Wendell, Underdog Coming this Sunday night: The favorite football team of many (if not all) Mets fans, playing for the championship of its sport. Coming NO Sunday night in 2012, as far as we know right now: The favorite baseball team of all Mets fans, playing for anything…not even to get us closer to 2013. ESPN released its preliminary […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alejandro Pena, Alex Ochoa, Anthony Young, Bobby Bonilla, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Bret Saberhagen, Butch Huskey, Dick Schofield, Doc Gooden, ESPN, Jeff Kent, Jeff Torborg, John Franco, Kevin Morgan, Mackey Sasser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Schourek, Replacement Mets, Sonia Sotomayor, Sunday Night Baseball, Team History There was Cleon and Tommie… “I’ll track that thing down for ya.” And Tom Terrific, who they also called The Franchise… “Throw strikes.” And Little Buddy… “Let ’em hit it on the ground.” Jerry the Kooz and Jerry the Catcher… “Keep the ball down, would ya guy?” Rusty the Orange… “Hey, call me in a pinch.” And his guy Mex who wasn’t even Mexican… “A little […] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 160th game in any Mets season, the “best” 161st game in any Mets season…and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1982 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2008 Mets, Cleon Jones, Fiftieth Anniversary, Johan Santana, John Franco, Kenny Rogers, Robin Ventura, Rusty Staub, Team History, Terry Leach, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Wayne Garrett, Willie Mays You know that Toshiba ad where they ship the laptop without the shock-resistant hard drive, and there’s a nationwide power outage and a guy drinks bad milk and turns into a zombie and bites his roommate and then there are zombies everywhere? (You’re a Mets fan, you have to know it.) I imagine Major League […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, David Wright, Disappointment, John Franco, Mike Piazza, MLB, New York |
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