The Wednesday morning news where Detroit was concerned was good. The Spinners, the enduring, melodious R&B group out of Ferndale, Mich., had made it at last to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their most fervent fans — a cohort that surely includes me — had been waiting what felt like forever to hear […]
 
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 |  Day-Night Doubleheaders, Eric Haase, Javy Baez, Jimmy Yacabonis, Joey Lucchesi, Max Scherzer, Miguel Cabrera, Team History, The Spinners, Tigers, Zach Muckenhirn What was it Philippé Wynne was advising all over the radio in the autumn of 1976? Hey y’all, prepare yourself for the rubber game…win. Was that the lyric? Ah, close enough for rhythm & blues. However they heard it sung, the Mets apparently took a 43-year-old clue from the Spinners’ featured […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Adeiny Hechavarria, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Human Element, Interleague Play, JaCoby Jones, Miguel Cabrera, Rubber Games, Spencer Turnbull, The Spinners, Tigers, Zack Wheeler Come Monday, the Mets are slated to introduce nine men who’ve never been Mets before. When the names Scott Atchison, John Buck, Greg Burke, Marlon Byrd, Collin Cowgill, Latroy Hawkins, Brandon Lyon, Anthony Recker and Scott Rice are called, I’ll applaud because they are now part of my team. Some may disappear from the roster […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bobby Smith, Moment of Silence, The Spinners Pervis Jackson, the founding Spinner who cemented the deepest of foundations for my favorite group ever, has died at the age of 70. He was diagnosed only days ago with liver and brain cancer. Pervis was performing as recently as July. If you know the strangely parenthesed No. 24 Song of All-Time, “They Just Can’t Stop It The (Games […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Moment of Silence, Pervis Jackson, The Spinners, Top 500 Songs When we paws to remember those who made our world a more joyous, more loving place, it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear and Flushing. The Aikens family of Seneca, S.C. had the right idea. One fall day in 1954, not long after the New York Giants swept the Cleveland Indians for the world championship, they […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Casey the Cat, Cats, Flashback Friday, The Spinners Let me see if I’ve got this straight. If Rex Grossman sees his shadow, we get eight more weeks of winter. If Peyton Manning earns a trip to a theme park, we get eight more weeks of winter. Yeah, that’s about the size of it. One football team will beat another tonight and 56 nights hence […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Henderson, Football, Moment of Silence, The Spinners If it’s the final Friday of the month, then it’s the first installment of the special Top 10 Songs of All-Time edition of Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Bud Harrelson was breaking his hand. George Theodore was colliding with Don Hahn. Jon Matlack was not avoiding a line drive. In the spring […] |
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