Late on a Sunday night in 1975, I’m watching Sammy & Company on Channel 4 because I’m up, it’s on, and nothing else is. The Sammy in question is Sammy Davis, Jr. He’s done it all in show business and now he’s hosting this syndicated not quite talk show, not quite variety show. It’s got […]
 
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. |
 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Clinchings, Closing Day, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hollering, Hooting, Jarred Kelenic, Joey Lucchesi, Karma, Mets Pop Culture, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Redemption, Sammy Davis, Screaming, Shouting, Spencer Schwellenbach, Travis d'Arnaud, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver “Gary Apple back in our New York studio, following the Worst Game Ever, as the Mets lose, 10-4, to the Oakland Athletics, though mentioning just the score and the opponent doesn’t do it justice, does it, Todd Zeile?” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, Acres of Foul Territory, Angel Hernandez, Blinding Sun, Clubhouse Celebrations We’d Like to See, Darin Ruf, Gary Apple, Horribleness, Jacob deGrom, Karma, Oakland Coliseum, Presumptuous Thinking, Steve Gelbs, Todd Zeile, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra Before Friday night’s absolutely useless 9-2 defeat at the hands of the Dodgers, the Mets’ record in their previous 13 games stood at 9-4. Over a span of 45 games, their mark totaled 30-15. For the season as a whole, the Mets entered Friday 76-70. Each of the “4” in the 9-4 was presumed to have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Eddie Money, Karma, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Perspective, Zen As Monday’s game and possibly the season it is a part of were getting definitively away from the Mets, I found myself particularly irked not so much by their comprehensive, soup-to-nuts on-field shoddiness but the deficiencies in their off-field communications. It’s bad enough they don’t play a good game, they’re also not up to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brodie Van Wagenen, Karma, Language, Mickey Callaway, Quotes Perhaps the reason the Mets seem on their way to their worst season since 1993 is they have too many Mets born in 1993. I wouldn’t expect a Major League Baseball team to discriminate on the basis of anything other […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 2018 Mets, Birth Years, Branon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Drew Smith, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob Rhame, Karma, Michael Conforto, P.J. Conlon, Robert Gsellman, Tyler Bashlor Maybe all the Mets needed was a little sunshine. The sun makes living things grow. The Mets appeared to be the opposite of a living thing since departing Cincinnati with a division title stuffed in their luggage. Perhaps they were under the impression they had entered the afterlife. Not quite. They had only qualified for it. […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bryce Harper, Closing Day, Jeurys Familia, Karma, Meaningful Gestures You think the Mets bringing in Rod Barajas, bringing up Ike Davis and blotting out Frank Catalanotto with Chris Carter were winning moves? Sure they were. But if this organization really wanted to do nothing but win, they would bring somebody else to the ballpark every single game. They would bring me. They want me on that […] |
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