Those wisps of smoke visible in the autumn sky remind us that this has been a busy birthday week amid the lofty heights of the Mets’ Mount Pitchmore, with Dwight Gooden turning 58 on November 16 and the 78th anniversary of Tom Seaver being born having come around on November 17. Next date to celebrate, […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alay Soler, Bob Apodaca, Bob Moorhead, Bob Myrick, Brent Gaff, Chris Schwinden, Corey Oswalt, Craig Swan, David Peterson, Dwight Gooden, Eric Hillman, Jacob deGrom, Jason Isringhausen, Jenrry Mejia, Jeremy Hefner, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Lifetime Mets, Loopholes, Mike Bruhert, Mount Pitchmore, PItching, Randy Tate, Scott Holman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Team Records That Are Absolutely Crazy, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday, Tylor Megill, William DeVaughn MLB announced its All-Star finalists on Sunday. No Mets were mentioned. No Mets came close to being mentioned. Off all the choices that could be ranked, no critical mass ranked enough Mets for the runoff. A first-place team in the nation’s largest market has gone so under the radar on a positional basis that even […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Batting Average, Corey Oswalt, Garrison Keillor, Jeff McNeil, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Kung Fu Fighting, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rico Carty, Ron Santo, Rudy, The Odd Couple, Zack Wheeler When the word “designated” enters the clubhouse conversation, ballplayers must get a little glum. If you’re told you’re a designated hitter, it means your glove is deemed superfluous. If you’re told you’re designated for assignment, it means the entirety of you is deemed superfluous. Until somebody declares different, the NL reverts to a DH-free zone […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Ali Sanchez, Bill Withers, Brad Brach, Corey Oswalt, Designated for Assignment, Guillermo Heredia, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee If it had been at all delightful, Tuesday’s twi-night doubleheader at Citi Field could have been billed a Berra’s Delight. Anybody who could make sense of the nonsense at hand would have been admitted free. Or admitted at all. Nobody is admitted to baseball games in 2020, of course. After fourteen innings of futility, nobody who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Corey Oswalt, Doubleheaders, Home Teams Away, Jon Berti, Juan Lagares, Luis Rojas, Marlins, Mets Managers, Pandemics, Patrick Mazeika, Rick Porcello, Seth Lugo, Stealing Home, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Yogi Berra “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano Well, Mama told me there’d be days like these. My mother also knows baseball and has a head for business. So she told me some other things too. For example, she told me that days like these are a lot more likely if you’ve got cheapjack owners who can’t or won’t pay to put the best product […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Blowouts, Corey Oswalt, ESPN, Hunter Strickland, Paul Sewald, Rick Porcello, Wilpons, Zack Wheeler You know what they say: you’re gonna win a third of your games, you’re gonna lose a third of your games and apportioning 20% of your games to Jason Vargas to start is self-defeating. Why is Jason Vargas the Mets’ fifth starter? […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corey Oswalt, Dallas Keuchel, Dave Liddell, Fifth Starters, Jason Vargas, Luis Avilan, Ron Darling Ah, the THB Class of 2018! Greet ’em quick, because many of ’em are already gone! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of matriculation: Tom Seaver is Class of ’67, Mike […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Adrian Gonzalez, Anthony Swarzak, Austin Jackson, Baseball Cards, Bobby Wahl, Buddy Baumann, Chris Beck, Corey Oswalt, Daniel Zamora, Devin Mesoraco, Drew Gagnon, Drew Smith, Eric Hanhold, Gerson Bautista, Jack Reinheimer, Jeff McNeil, Jose Bautista, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Kaczmarski, Luis Guillorme, P.J. Conlon, Scott Copeland, The Holy Books, Tim Peterson, Todd Frazier, Tyler Bashlor The highlight of Friday night’s meaningless Mets-Marlins game? It was a first-pitch groundout to third. LOLMets and all that, but those of us who were there to see it were thrilled — because those 10 or so seconds represented the return of David Wright to the place he is most fully himself, the place he belongs, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Anderson, Corey Oswalt, David Wright, Hideous T-Shirts, Jose Urena, Protective Netting The Mets played the Nationals Saturday and the Nationals were eliminated from postseason contention. Unfortunately, the two events were completely disconnected from one another. The final blow to Washington’s mathematical prayers was struck in St. Louis by Tyler O’Neill, whose walkoff home run put an end to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Austin Voth, Corey Oswalt, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Nationals, Nectarines, Pete McCarthy, Radio, Sominex, the immortal Chris Majkowski, Wayne Randazzo, WCBS, WOR |
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