The new Metropolitan standard of excellence by way of archaic statistics is Five Wins and Six Losses. That’s right, 5-6. Never mind the likes of 25-7, 19-10, 22-9, 24-4 or 20-6. Move over, Messrs. Seaver (those first three), Gooden and Dickey. You were Amazin’ in your respective […]
 
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 |  5-6 Pitchers, Carlos Torres, Charlie Williams, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Kobel, Pedro Martinez, Ron Darling, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tug McGraw Fifteenth anniversaries don’t get much play in our milestone-mad media. Ones, Fives, Tens, Twenties and up the line, sure, they’re money. But with rare exception, nobody gets too worked up over the crystal anniversary, not named for Billy Crystal, though I can see where the potential association might be […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Ed Kranepool, Jason Isringhausen, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Metropolitan Quinceañera, Mike Jorgensen, Milestones, Team History, Tom Seaver For the diehard Mets fan who pined away through 1,725 regular-season games awaiting the return of Jason Vargas — and there’s bound to be one of you out there somewhere — congratulations. You got exactly what you were missing. On July 3, […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Bill Pulsipher, David Cone, Frank Lary, Jason Vargas, Jon Niese, Recidivist Mets, Starting Pitching, Team History, Tom Seaver I really wanted Jacob deGrom to set the Mets record for most consecutive starts with a win, especially once I discovered that such a record exists and that Jake had tied it. I’m keenly aware of many Mets records. Some it’s never occurred to me to commit to memory. Most Consecutive Starts Won lands a […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Jones, David Cone, Jacob deGrom, Streaks, Team History, Tom Seaver Friday night in Phoenix didn’t offer enough positive developments to encourage the pessimistic yet likely didn’t dampen the stubborn enthusiasm of the optimistic. Jon Niese pitched well enough to win until he fell behind. From there, the bullpen pitched poorly enough to ensure he’d lose. Oh, and once again nobody hit. Or “nobody” hit, as […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Lyons, Charlie O'Brien, David Cone, Dick Schofield, Double Vision, Eddie Murray, John Mayberry, Kevin McReynolds, Kevin Plawecki, Matt Harvey, Ruben Tejada, Ryan Thompson, Team History, Tim Teufel, Twin Digits, Uniform Numbers, Vince Coleman You know what Doc Gooden’s typical pitch count was when he was regularly registering double-digit strikeouts in 1984? Neither do I. It never occurred to me to ask. The only pitches any Mets fan was counting 29 years ago were the ones that resulted in strike three. That was the fun of the greatest new […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Eric Young Jr., Instant Replay, Juan Lagares, Tom Seaver, Zack Wheeler I’m pretty sure the Mets won their game Friday night. Score says they did. My memory says they did. Eric Young, Jr., tossing his helmet into the air before stomping on home plate amid a sea of orange-trimmed blue jerseys says they did. So why doesn’t it feel more festive? Probably because, in descending order of […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amos Otis, Carlos Torres, David Aardsma, David Cone, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ed Hearn, Eric Young Jr., Interleague Play, Joe Foy, Pedro Feliciano, Royals Gentle Reader: The topical hook of this column is incredibly outdated, but the historical stuff is still keen! *** Michael Bourn. Not a Met. Not yet. Maybe never. Maybe soon. It’s not a story that seems to include resolution. (EDITOR’S NOTE: Resolution came.) But if Bourn is gonna be one of ours soon, he’s gonna start his […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Brady Clark, Brandon Lyon, Chan Ho Park, Chris Aguila, Clem Labine, Clint Hurdle, Dale Thayer, Dan Wheeler, Dave Kingman, David Cone, David Lamb, Dennis Springer, Dick Stuart, Don Aase, Elmer Dessense, February Finds, George Foster, Hisanori Takahashi, James Baldwin, Jason Isringhausen, Jason Pridie, Jay Bell, Johan Santana, Jose Lima, Livan Hernandez, Luis Alvarado, Luis Hernandez, Mark Johnson, Marlon Byrd, Michael Bourn, Mike Glavine, Mike Jacobs, Nelson Figueroa, Pedro Feliciano, Recidivist Mets, Ricardo Rincon, Rich Rodriguez, Ricky Bottalico, Rod Barajas, Ron Taylor, Scott Erickson, Team History, Todd Zeile David Cone, a Met from 1987 through 1992 and again for a spell in 2003 (we don’t know what he did most of the years in between), is lending his celebrity to help to help those still hurting in the aftermath of stupid storm Sandy…which I’m tired of dignifying as “super”. Coney will be guest-bartending […] Now he’s at 18. Now this is getting to be a whole other kind of fun. Oh, it was good, clean, dry fun — no rain, please; it disturbs everything for which he stands — from early on this season. And it was a veritable overflowing fountain cup of fun in the middle of the year […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bobby Ojeda, David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Jerry Koosman, R.A. Dickey, Tom Seaver |
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