1) It appears impossible to all but give away tickets to a Mets game in September, and that includes trying to all but give away tickets to people outside Citi Field who seem determined to go to the Mets game about to be played. Saturday afternoon was my annual Mets game with Jeff from Washington […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Chipper Jones, Citi Field, Jeurys Familia, McFadden's, Oddball Behavior, Pat LaFrieda, Rain, September, Sterling Awards, T-shirts, Zack Wheeler Sticking with the education theme Yahoo! was kind enough to come up with for us and 29 other contributing blogs, my attention was detained this morning when I saw the following headline on mets.com: Mets’ loss to Cards a valued learning experience Say, I thought, that looks familiar. Where and when have I seen that […] It was during Willie Harris’s at-bat in the ninth inning Wednesday night that I was trying very hard, from way out in the right field corner, to will another ball out of Drew Storen so as to build the slightest of rallies and increase the slightest of chances that the crappiest of games might reverse […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Distasteful Pleasures, Drew Storen, Mathematically Eliminated, Rick Ankiel, September, Willie Harris Your USF Bulls had just seen their hard-earned lead trimmed to three points in the final minute of the fourth quarter when Notre Dame attempted an onside kick. It was still a longshot, but if they recovered, then the Irish would have the ball around their own 45 and if everything were to go spookily […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Football, Relief Pitching, Rudy, September, USF Bulls Expression of resigned exasperation with latest result. Acknowledgement that result doesn’t matter at this stage of season, yet it is always frustrating to encounter this sort of result. Link to article spelling out game details. Snarky aside. Key example of what went wrong in game. Assertion of saving grace, focusing on how this was just one game and player who […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Discouraging Developments, Embarrassment, Jeff Wilpon, Jenrry Mejia, Johan Santana, Luis Castillo, Media, Oliver Perez, Omar Minaya, public relations, Roy Halladay, Sean Green, September, Walter Reed |
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