If the 2010 Mets get off to a bad start on the field or once again demonstrate that they’re incompetent and/or tone-deaf about treating injuries, building ballclubs or relating to fans, we’re going to get typecast. We’ll be fans of the Big Team That Can’t, the grizzled, paranoid saps who trudge around accompanied by our […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2010 Mets, Citi Field, Ike Davis, Jason Heyward, Spring Training Continuing the recent theme of leaning forward into the schedule of meaningless exhibitions until we are so close to Tradition Field that we’ll be called out for fan’s interference, there’s a game today. Today has a game. A baseball game. A Mets game. It’s Today’s Game. Today’s Game is scheduled to start at 1:10. Today’s Game will air on […] The building that contains the Fry manse has had a tough winter. First the heat was kaput for several days. Now, following the season’s 242nd blizzard, the roof is leaking. Through a quirk of intrabuilding geography that I find less than delightful, the water’s chosen route was to descend three floors and pool […] The Department of Sudden Realization is reporting the New York Mets will play the Atlanta Braves in two days. Well, it’ll essentially be random fellows wearing Mets uniforms versus unknown guys wearing Braves uniforms after the third or so inning, and it won’t count in any serious standings, and the outcome will be forgotten minutes […] In a post to Twitter, Rick Coutinho of ESPN Radio says RHP Sean Green has modified his delivery, and his sidearm motion is even more pronounced than it was last year. Anybody who was caught up in the peer pressure of seventh grade in the […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, Al Leiter, Batting Orders, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Daveotronic 5000, David Sloane, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Fred Wilpon, Happy Days, Henry Winkler, Jerry Manuel, Joe Cocker, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Mike Jacobs, Pat Morita, Rod Barajas, Saturday Night Fever, Sean Green, Spring Training, Team History, Willie Randolph, Yusmeiro Petit If the meaningless games in March take on occasionally deeper meaning, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. “The baseball exhibition! The baseball exhibition!” That was my roommate talking. He didn’t know anything about baseball, but he knew that the proper phrase was “exhibition game,” a nugget that had thus far eluded […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Al Lang Stadium, Flashback Friday, Spring Training It has to mean something that up here in the grimopolis that is February in New York, a nasty afternoon shower has given way to a rainbow outside my office window. Not a metaphorical — or even a METaphorical — rainbow, but an actual Judy Garland-lovin’ arch o’ stripes in the eastern sky. If pitchers and […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Darryl Strawberry, First Posts, Spring Training …another season of faith and fear in Flushing. We won the Hot Stove League championship, or at least went to the Hot League playoffs — again. Of course it’s hardly the first time, and what has it gotten us, besides the opportunity to boo Roberto Alomar? But — and maybe it’s just the spring training talking […] |
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