Fifteenth anniversaries don’t get much play in our milestone-mad media. Ones, Fives, Tens, Twenties and up the line, sure, they’re money. But with rare exception, nobody gets too worked up over the crystal anniversary, not named for Billy Crystal, though I can see where the potential association might be […]
 
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 |  David Cone, Ed Kranepool, Jason Isringhausen, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Metropolitan Quinceañera, Mike Jorgensen, Milestones, Team History, Tom Seaver When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of hitting. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 6-2, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1994 Mets, Chris Flexen, Curtis Granderson, Michael Conforto, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Odubel Herrera, Scores, Team History In another century, you could easily discern the difference between frontline and rear-echelon Mets. The starters were the starters and the bench guys were held in reserve until needed. When one of the bench guys got in the lineup, it usually meant a regular was aching or slumping or simply needed a blow. It was […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Bambi's Bandits, Bob Bailor, Bruce Bochy, Chris Heston, Joel Youngblood, Johnny Monell, Jon Niese, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Michael Cuddyer, Mike Jorgensen, Ron Hodges, Rusty Staub, Sergio Romo I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw Aw, how can you get mad at these Mets for being, per coach Dennis Green, who we thought they were? We thought they were going to be not very good and now we are beginning to be proven fairly prescient. It was a heckuva first half. There may be some heck left in the second half. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1984 Mets, 2010 Mets, Alex Tevino, Cal Koonce, Craig Swan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Ed Glynn, Ed Lynch, Elliott Maddox, Expectations, Frank Taveras, Gary Carter, George Foster, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Jeff Reardon, Jesse Orosco, Joe Torre, Joel Youngblood, John Pacella, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Kobel, Lee Mazzilli, Magic, Mark Bomback, Mike Jorgensen, Mookie Wilson, Neil Allen, Pat Zachry, Ray Burris, Ray Knight, Roy Lee Jackson, Steve Henderson, Tom Hausman, Wally Backman |
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