Dom Smith pinch-hit for brand new major league pitcher Drew Smith in the ninth inning of Saturday night’s Mets loss to the Dodgers, which seemed appropriate given that you can pretty much replace one Mets game with another and not even the names changing makes a tangible difference, so why even […]
 
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. |
I didn’t want to look up the last time the Mets won a laugher, because I knew the answer would be startling at first and then depressing. (It was May 15, when they beat the Blue Jays by 10.) Kind of like this season has been. Anyway, Monday night’s tilt in Colorado was only a laugher […] Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. An ace walks onto a pitcher’s mound. Throws a great game for like seven innings. Gets almost everybody out, gives up maybe one run. Somehow, by the eighth, he’s on the losing end of a one-nothing score. His team […]  21 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Disturbing Trends, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Madonna, The Knack When the Mets are mired deep in one of their patented extended funks, I tend to be asked — given that I’ve been around and remember things — some variation on the question, “Has it ever been this bad before?” The fact that the Mets have patented […] As any black cat could tell you, many of the seminal legends in Met lore involve the Cubs, including the go-to tale of the person who called a local newspaper sports department one fine day in 1964 to inquire how many runs the Mets scored in their […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Billy Taylor, Cubs, Down Period, Franchise Records, Jacob deGrom, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Luke Farrell, Met Lore, Pat Mahomes, Rose Marie, Strikeouts, Team History, Team Meetings, Tim Peterson, Todd Pratt In the ninth inning of Monday’s nightcap, which if memory serves ended about an hour ago if it’s not in fact still going on, Braves pinch-hitter Dustin Peterson tried to take first base on ball three. The various onlookers laughed; so did I. It had been a long, often ridiculous day and night that by […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Ramos, Braves, Doubleheaders, Hansel Robles, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Luis Guillorme, Rain Delays Gary Cohen called Wednesday night’s 2-1 loss “stunning” the moment after it happened. Gary Cohen makes mostly accurate statements. This wasn’t among them. The Mets had led the Marlins, 1-0, since the fifth inning. Brandon Nimmo had put us on the board […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxieties, Blown Saves, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Mickey Callaway, Not Stunning, One Run “Give it a listen. What do you hear?”
Earl Weaver, a wise man, once cracked that momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher. Games take the form of stories as they unfold, but all those stories start with the guy on the mound. If he’s got his full arsenal, recent frustrations and failures are likely to dissipate. If he’s got nothing, a run […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Ezequiel Carrera, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Paul Goldschmidt The plan was a good one: head down to Philadelphia for Saturday’s night game, for which friends had sweet tickets through a work event. I was excited to see Noah Syndergaard, our pals, the Mets, and to get another look at Citizens Bank Park, which back in the last years of Shea opened my eyes […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Asdrubal Cabrera, Buddy Baumann, Edubray Ramos, Ghosts, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Josh Lewin, Paul Sewald, Radio, Rainouts |
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Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
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