Bruce Springsteen once advised you can’t start a fire without a spark. Monday night and Tuesday morning, there was no spark in Marlins Park. And for several days before, there was no yield at Citi Field. The Mets can’t get anything going in any sense anywhere. They are stuck in place…fourth place, to be precise, […]
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2013 Mets, Bruce Springsteen, Decay, Do Something, Extra Innings, Mad Men, Marlins, Matt Harvey, May, Terry Collins, Thin Patience Games like these make you want to kiss the Mets logo smack between the “e” and the “t”…though maybe it would be more appropriate to kiss its “s,” considering it was Thursday’s tail end that made the whole thing so lovable. There were enough isolated incidents across the 8½ innings that preceded this happiest of endings […] Every Mets fan who watches Mad Men religiously knows Lane Pryce is one of us, thanks to the orange and blue pennant that adorns his office wall. But perhaps you didn’t know just how devoted our British compatriot is when it comes to the fortunes of the 1966 Mets. Unfilmed scenes tell the tale… “Don, do you have […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, George Feaver, Mad Men, Mets Pop Culture, Team History, Tom Seaver It’s scary that as fans, any team’s fans, we get hooked on new players and young players and changes of direction and we’re sure we’re going to benefit — if it’s March — this year or — if it’s September — next year. Yet we just don’t know. It’s the ultimate blind trust. Theoretically, the future […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Busts, Farewells, Fernando Martinez, Mad Men, Prospects On a Sunday night in late August, viewers of Mad Men (whose season finale airs tonight at 10 on AMC) discovered Lane Pryce, British financial maven for ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, had tacked on his office wall a New York Mets pennant, the period-appropriate kind he might have bought at Shea Stadium or […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 2010 Mets, Attendance, Leonard Koppett, Mad Men, Mets Marketing, Mets Pop Culture, Team History It’s a Sunday afternoon in September 1996. I’m at Shea Stadium with my best friend Chuck, diehard Met sympathizer, but better described as a bandwagon rider in terms of his actual Met fandom. Yet in September 1996, there is no bandwagon. There’s just me guilting him into joining me for a game against the Braves. […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andy Tomberlin, Anniversaries, Billy Joel, Citi Field, Citi Field Tour, Condescension Toward Customers, Mad Men, Marv Throneberry, Mets Pop Culture, Old Dogs, Paul Wilson, Pete Flynn, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium, Small Time Crooks, The Last Play at Shea, The Rocker |
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