Saturday was Valentine’s Day, providing those us of who still adore from chronologically afar the occasion’s namesake a moment to recall the improvement Bobby Valentine’s Mets produced in his first full year at the helm. After finishing 71-91 in 1996 (a campaign he took over with 31 games remaining), the 1997 Mets delightfully surprised their […]
 
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. 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. |
KVELL: To beam with pride and pleasure A Mets fan generally finds himself kvetching or kvelling. It’s tempting to kvetch about the sleepy offseason that followed the signing of Michael Cuddyer or the way the Mets apparently charge […] If you’re the type of Mets fan to read a blog about the Mets in a month when the Mets aren’t playing, then you’re the type of Mets fan who should be attending an enormous Mets event in the next month the Mets aren’t playing. The Queens Baseball Convention is coming to McFadden’s Citi Field on […] Up until January 22, 1969, Gil Hodges was not a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in pretty much the same way you and I are not members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Unlike you and me, however, Hodges had played the requisite ten or more major league seasons to eventually […] Happy Election Day! It’s your Metstitutional duty to vote for the candidates of your choice. You could do worse — and no better, in this analyst’s opinion — than theoretically casting a ballot for the following slate. • Juan Lagares, National League Gold Glove center fielder. This race will be called tonight. If Juan grabs the […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Deserved Election, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Ken Boyer Jon Niese must’ve put his glove in front of his pitching arm and stabbed a sizzler of fate, for he has caught a break. He hasn’t caught a debilitating elbow injury at any rate. The presumptive first-game thrower who visits MRI tubes like less wholesome athletes might frequent strip clubs left Sunday’s game with discomfort […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, Gil Hodges, Injuries, Jon Niese, Opening Day Starters, Team History, Tom Seaver Earlier this week, Ron Davis put his proverbial fist through the Mets’ paper-thin veil of pretending they’re happy to have Ike Davis come down to St. Lucie and compete for the first base job. Ron, who was a successful major league reliever before becoming known to a later generation as Ike’s dad, made his points […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Gil Hodges, Gil Hodges Jr., Ike Davis, Mookie Wilson, Preston Wilson, Queens Baseball Convention, Randy Hundley, Roberto Alomar, Ron Davis, Sandy Alomar, Team History, Todd Hundley There was a celebration in one clubhouse at Citi Field Friday night, where somebody actually found something unusual in beating the Mets. Houston’s interim manager Tony DeFrancesco — not to be confused with ’70s heartthrob Tony DeFranco of “Heartbeat (It’s A Love Beat)” fame — had just won his first game as a major league […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Casey Stengel, George Bamberger, Gil Hodges, Joe Frazier, Team History, Terry Collins, Tony DeFrancesco, Tony DeFranco, Wes Westrum Among the many Mets bloggers carrying on for the one who couldn't make it to Hofstra were Steve Keane, John Coppinger, Taryn Cooper and yours truly. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bornstein.) Dear Dana, I either have to thank you or blame you for directing me to file my overdue report on the Hofstra Mets 50th Anniversary […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Blogging, Buddy Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dana Brand, Dave Kingman, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Vecsey, Gil Hodges, Hofstra Conference, Marv Throneberry, Mets Fans, Mr. Met, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Team History He could have been elected mayor at this moment. If you didn’t make it to the ticker-tape parade the City of New York threw for its World Champion New York Mets in 1969, then by all means click right here for a delicious two-minute, forty-one second bite of it, courtesy of NYC Media. It’s part […] |
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