I’ve always been fascinated by one-and-done Mets. Like Joe Hietpas and his one ninth-inning appearance behind the plate on the last day of the 2004 season. Like Mike Hessman and his one Mets home run across two months of 2010 despite his being billed in advance as the minor league home run king of minor [...]
 
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. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Greenberg, Brett Hinchliffe, Cubs, Garrett Olson, Joe Hietpas, Mike Glavine, Mike Hessman, One At Bat, Ray Searage Mets alumni news you’ve probably heard this spring: • Jose Reyes is a Miami Marlin. Mets alumni news you might have missed: • Lastings [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Ochoa, Benny Agbayani, Bruce Boisclair, C.J. Nitkowski, Chris Carter, Craig Brazell, Don Zimmer, Edgardo Alfonzo, Felix Millan, Gary Rajsich, Ike Hampton, Japan, Jon Nunnally, Kelvin Torve, Kevin Mitchell, Lastings Milledge, Mark Carreon, Matt Franco, Mike Fyhrie, Mike Hessman, Mike Marshall, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Tom O'Malley, Wayne Garrett, Yu Darvish It’s not our pennant race, but we were about to make a potentially legendary impact on it. That would’ve been fun. In the bottom of the second, already behind by two, Chris Schwinden couldn’t have appeared much more in danger. Infield hijinks, bloop warfare and the temptation of hitting Rafael Furcal that was just too good [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Chris Schwinden, Jaime Garcia, Josh Satin, Losing Record, Mike Hessman, Spoiler, Willie Harris Lucas Duda just blasted one out of Whatever It’s Called Stadium, his second homer, meaning Club Hessman loses yet another temporary member. Population of One Met Homer Village: 69 again. If only it was ’69 again. In other updating-type news, the war of attrition has claimed another victim: Bobby Parnell, out for the season with inflammation and [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Injuries, Lucas Duda, Mike Hessman, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman The Mets got to see how the other half lives, dies and resurrects itself Friday night. The Mets got to see what it’s like for a team to be fighting for its playoff life. The Mets got a real good look because, except for one half-inning, they were mostly spectators. Remember pennant races and the Mets’ [...] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Also-Ran, Bobby Cox, Braves, Frustration, Lucas Duda, Mike Hessman, Spoiler Amid an eighteen-run Met explosion, how could there not be a few bangs, pops and whiffs off the bat of the object of my offensive obsession, Mike Hessman? The best news where Hessmania was concerned Sunday is the admission into Club Hessman — One Met Home Run and One Met Home Run Only — of a [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darren Reed, Fernando Martinez, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, Kevin Roberson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Offensive Explosion, Ruben Tejada In this new post-realization era of 2010 Mets baseball — in which we fully realize we’re toast — 7-6 losses of games which we once led 3-0 should seem, as R.A. Dickey might eloquently put it, inconsequential. For the big picture, sure, but in terms of leading by three and losing by one, it’s pretty [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake DeWitt, Carlos Marmol, Edward Hopper, Jenrry Mejia, Josh Thole, Lucas Duda, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, Omar Minaya, R.A. Dickey, R.B. Greaves, Steve Goodman, Tim Leary, Tim McCarver, Tin Tin, Wrigley Field, Xavier Nady While we wait for Mike Hessman to resign the presidency of Club Hessman (players with exactly one Met home run, current membership 68), we notice he suffers from a touch of Dave Kingman. But just a touch. See, Mike strikes out a lot…while lagging 153 Met home runs behind SkyKing. If you’re going to strike out [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eli Marrero, Kaz Matsui, Mike Hessman, Strikeouts, Team History R.A. Dickey’s initial preparations really paid off, eh? The knuckleballer’s erudition, real or imagined, reads even better when you can find his name among the National League leaders in Earned Run Average…which you now can. It wasn’t his earned runs allowed that were keeping him out until now, but rather his relatively few innings pitched, [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abraham Nunez, David Wright, Ike Hampton, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Josh Thole, Ken Henderson, Luis Hernandez, Mike Hessman, R.A. Dickey, Sandy Alomar Sr., Shane Halter, Team History, Tim Corcoran Lost, perhaps, in the euphoria over R.A. Dickey’s one-hitter on Friday night was the astounding arrival of Mike Hessman into the land of triples. As noted previously, Hessman’s first four Mets hits have been a veritable cycle: a double in his first start; a single the next day; a home run eight days later; and [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cora, Billy Baldwin, Cory Sullivan, Daniel Murphy, David Newhan, Jesus Feliciano, Jim Tatum, Jose Reyes, Mike Hessman, Mike Phillips, Mookie Wilson, Pat Tabler, Team History, Triples |
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