My primary rule for playing Sports Reference’s Immaculate Grid — my “self-imposed gamification,” as it’s been called — is I have to fill every box that can be filled by a Met with a Met. Does the Grid call for a Phillie who also played for the Pirates? Then I have to answer with a […]
 
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. |
In the opening weeks of a Mets offseason we hope doesn’t linger beyond the forthcoming winter, we have learned a new phrase, “uncapped downside scenario,” courtesy of David Stearns, who for his next press conference might want to assign one of the staff interpreters to translate his fluent POBOese into English. To be fair, Stearns […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Coaches, Comic Books, Dana Brand, Danny Barnes, David Stearns, Fantagraphics, Gordon McLendon, Henry Lenz, Howie Rose, Jeff Albert, Kevin Mahoney, Mark Simon, Michael Vassallo, Mike Breen, Paul McCartney, Radio, Ralph Kiner, Richie Ashburn, Romance, Stefanie Brand, Tim Josephs, Uncapped Downside Scenario, YouTube “I still get such a bang out of it,” John Cusack as Buck Weaver says late in Eight Men Out, the cinematic telling of the scandal that engulfed the 1919 Chicago White Sox, a team that was eliminated in the postseason, ostensibly because they weren’t trying to win. I thought of that line Wednesday night […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2026 Postseason, Eight Men Out, Elimination Day, Rays, Sheadenfreude, Spectator Interference In honor of the 75th anniversary of The Bobby Thomson Game, the 27th anniversary of The Melvin Mora Game, and the anniversaries of a few other things that happened on October 3 before Pete Alonso redefined it once more in 2024, I’m re-posting something I wrote in 2009. Hope you enjoy. (Please forgive any old links […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Baseball’s Most Magical Date, Bobby Thomson, Melvin Mora, New York Giants |
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