The Mets throw all sorts of obscure statistics on their scoreboard in the hours before a game starts, including how they’re doing at home on a given day of the week. For example, before the Mets opened against the Rockies, word was posted that the Mets were 9-0 this year on Tuesday nights at Citi […]
 
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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bar Mitzvah, Citi Field, Faith and Fear Book, Marv Throneberry, Melvin Mora, Mets Hall of Fame, Ryder Chasin, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Small World, Tug McGraw In February 1998, Al Leiter became a Met. He couldn’t have been happier to join the team he said he rooted hard for during his childhood, which he once referred to as “the Mike Vail years”. This is really exciting for me. I feel like a little kid. All it took was Wayne Huizenga dismantling the World […] Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Bobby Thomson, Closing Day, Flashback Friday, Melvin Mora In one of the legendary exchanges of 1969, Leo Durocher dismissed the challengers nipping at the heels of his frontrunning club after his team salvaged the final game of what must have been, from the standpoint of the visitors’ clubhouse at Shea Stadium, a very demoralizing series. “Were those the real Cubs today?” a reporter asked […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Glendon Rusch, Jason Isringhausen, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Team History I’m going to Friday night’s game against the Orioles. I have three standing ovations planned. One will be for the home team, returning to its headquarters office after the road trip from heaven. One will be for Melvin Mora. It will be his first appearance at Shea since he was traded away in 2000. He was one […] |
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