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jasonfry

Claimed Blog: Faith and Fear in Flushing

BallHype Member since June 26, 2009

faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 2 days ago
The Hopefully Not Very Big Move
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — If all goes as planned, sometime next week we will be reborn on the Wordpress platform. This... should mean very little is different. Those finding us through faithandfearinflushing.com should continue to do so. Ditto for those using our blogharbor address. All our posts are being moved over. ... (more) The Hopefully Not Very Big Move

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 4 days ago
27 Minutes Outside Citi Field
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Ebbets Field was always in reach. There were obstacles — money, the policeman's shoe, a leap, the... greasy garageman — but a boy could contend with them and triumph, if he had wit and persistence and a touch of courage. It was easy and absolutely irrational to relate getting to see a Dodger game ... (more) 27 Minutes Outside Citi Field

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 5 days ago
One Fan's Renewed Enthusiasm
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Last week, when sharing Amazings NY's missive to Mets management regarding their decision not to renew a... longstanding season ticket commitment, I mentioned that if anyone wanted to weigh in from the other end of the spectrum, I'd be happy to offer their thoughts to our readers on why they will ... (more) One Fan's Renewed Enthusiasm

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 6 days ago
The Forgotten Forty
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Big-time spoiler alert. If you want to take the test that I'm about to write about, don't... scroll too far down from here just, because I'm giving away a whole bunch of answers. Otherwise, go ahead. The test in question is something I'd heard of but had never bothered to investigate ... (more) The Forgotten Forty

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 11 days ago
Omar's Alchemy's Short Shelf Life
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — I don't hold against Billy Wagner his sudden rediscovery of his inner Brave any more than I'd... fume at Brian Schneider at this point for remembering what a Phillies fan he'd always been. This is what ballplayers who aren't Chris Coste do when they go to a new ballclub. They find a reason to have ... (more) Omar's Alchemy's Short Shelf Life

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 12 days ago
Wanted: Evidence of a Plan
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Let's get the caveats out of the way early on this one. It's December 2, not even... officially winter. The hot stove is barely beginning to glow. And Greg and I have long been proud to think that we don't overreact to things. As the timing of the Johan Santana trade made clear, you don't know ... (more) Wanted: Evidence of a Plan

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 13 days ago
Six Seats Suddenly Available
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — As the Mets go about their alphabetical roster restocking — Alex Cora...Chris Coste... Chuck Cottier ? —... they'll have to do it without four of their longtime ticketholders. A Mets fan and FAFIF reader sent us the note below the other day explaining why he and his friends will not be renewing ... (more) Six Seats Suddenly Available

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 15 days ago
Davis, Save Us
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time... no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we'd have nothing more to sate our perilously low ... (more) Davis, Save Us

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 15 days ago
An Inverted Willie Randolph
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — In 2008, you'll recall, the Mets let Willie Randolph dangle on the precipice of removal, take a... flight to the West Coast, manage one game in Anaheim and then fired him (announcing it, infamously, after 3:00 AM Eastern time). It all seemed pretty shabby . Not quite eighteen months later, the ... (more) An Inverted Willie Randolph

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 17 days ago
The Fundamentalist Movement
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — If I've learned anything from the returning Keith Hernandez these past few years that he has analyzed... Mets games. it's that ballplayers like to come up with new names for old things, particularly if they save the players some syllables. Thus, it was no surprise to me when I started hearing Keith ... (more) The Fundamentalist Movement

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 19 days ago
Blue & Orange Thursday
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — The Mets used to regularly play Memorial Day doubleheaders, Independence Day doubleheaders and Labor Day doubleheaders, yet... the holiday that launched them into the public consciousness was the one we celebrate tomorrow. That's right: the Mets are as much a part of Thanksgiving as stuffing, ... (more) Blue & Orange Thursday

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 20 days ago
Uni Watch FTW
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Some folks will never forgive him for his Piazza-related tantrum, but this Paul Lukas bit nails everything... that's wrong with the current Mets regime (and what's wrong is pretty much everything) in one succinct blast: It’s all too much. The Bernazard thing, the vanilla stadium with the ... (more) Uni Watch FTW

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About the Cream, It's Clear: Close, But Not Quite
faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 20 days ago
About the Cream, It's Clear: Close, But Not Quite
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — It's an open secret that next year the Mets will have a cream-colored version of the pinstripes... uniform, though reports are all over the map about whether the white pinstripes will still exist and whether the annoying black drop shadow will remain in either or both. Like a lot of things the ... (more) About the Cream, It's Clear: Close, But Not Quite

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 23 days ago
Making Their 'Presence' Felt
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Earlier this week, esteemed FAFIF commenter Kevin from Flushing sent me a link to a video report... out of Minnesota regarding the new Twins ballpark with the following warning: "kick in the balls 23 seconds in" I didn't necessarily want a kick there or anywhere, but with a come-on like ... (more) Making Their 'Presence' Felt

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Amazin' Medley
faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 25 days ago
Amazin' Medley
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Welcome to 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 not, for the ... (more) Amazin' Medley

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 26 days ago
Sorry Is the Second-Hardest Part
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — As the fires of the season from Hell cool to a low, smoldering pain, I’ve caught myself... thinking about what the most agonizing part was, and I've figured it out. It was the anticipation of disaster. As the season wore wearily on, we were a beaten people by the middle innings. Then by ... (more) Sorry Is the Second-Hardest Part

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 26 days ago
He Got His Man
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Too bad the story is apocryphal. Too bad lefty Giant reliever Don Liddle — after retiring lefty... Vic Wertz in Game One of the 1954 World Series with two on and none out — didn't actually declare to his teammates upon being pulled in favor of righty Marv Grissom, "I got my man." It's too bad ... (more) He Got His Man

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 27 days ago
The Return of Wally Backman
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Part of being a modern baseball fan is learning to be rational. Instead of instinctively praising grit... and hustle and a dirty uniform, you look at the numbers behind the cloud of dust. Instead of automatically praising or bemoaning a move on the field or in the dugout or in the front office, you ... (more) The Return of Wally Backman

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 29 days ago
What the Breakfast Chicken Hatched
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Athletes have been known be implored to attend Bar Mitzvahs. Sometimes it's because a particular athlete is... Jewish; there's a great bit in a movie called Keeping Up With The Steins about an extraordinarily competitive L.A. family trying to get then-Dodger Shawn Green to show up at their son's ... (more) What the Breakfast Chicken Hatched

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faithandfear.blogharbor.com - 11/13/2009
The 83-79 Way
— faithandfear.blogharbor.com — Rarely has anything I've anticipated surpassed my expectations the way SNY's Mets Yearbook did Thursday night. The... 1971 highlight film immediately became the second-best thing ever aired on the channel, behind only the 2006 division clincher. The film was titled The Winning Way , which in ... (more) The 83-79 Way

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