Did you know Japan has a Baseball Hall of Fame too? It does — and it’s pretty neat. Here’s a report, including a Mets sighting or two.
 
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. |
The Mets and Astros combined to throw 266 pitches tonight at Citi Field. For 265 of them — that’s 99.62% of the game if you’re mathematically inclined — the results were pretty much unbearable for Mets fans. The preteen girls in the stands, most of whom were waiting to watch someone named Austin Mahone, unleashed 266,000 […]  5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Austin Mahone, Brooklyn Cyclones, Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, music, Pat Mahomes, Timo Perez Each year I find a page in a notebook and write the name of the year and METS at the top. If Opening Day is on TV, I sit there and write the players down in order of their appearance. If the Mets hit first, the players go in the book in the order they bat, and it […] Enjoy that one. The nightcap saw the Mets do absolutely nothing against entitled annoyance Gio Gonzalez, a little Daniel Murphy parachute aside. Enjoy that one. They finished the season 4-15 against the Nationals. Go a mediocre 9-10 and they would have been over .500. Enjoy that one. Zack Wheeler‘s final start was a letdown — he was […] The Braves are out of the playoffs — and their cause of death was the Mets. The Pirates beat the Brewers, and the Mets finished the deed with a 10-2 decimation that didn’t seem as close as that score suggests. Let us therefore now observe a moment of silence … whoa, I seem to have badly misspelled […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Fredi Gonzalez, Hatred, Jacob deGrom, Turner Field Your meaningful games in September update: The Mets are officially better than they were the last two years — they won their 75th game of the year tonight. For the moment at least they’re better than the Marlins, though tied in the lost column. Can they finish with a winning record after the All-Star break? They’ll need to […] Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which burned Terry Collins‘s challenge, which meant he couldn’t challenge the next play, when Ian Desmond overslid second stealing and was called […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Nationals, Travis d'Arnaud, Umpires Dare to dream headlines: Murph’s 200th Hit Caps #Mets‘ Miracle Run to Wild Card. — Jason Fry (@jasoncfry) September 10, 2014 Ha ha. Yeah. That isn’t going to happen, though it was fun to tweet. No, it really isn’t. Stop that. The problem is the Mets, despite being a daunting but not completely unimaginable 5 1/2 games out of […] It was probably the eighth inning when I realized I’d been watching the entire game between the Mets and the Rockies yet wasn’t sure I could name a Rockie who was on the field. I taxed my brain and managed to come up with Michael Cuddyer, but that was because he’d hit a home run. Beyond […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Fans, Garbage Time, Rockies, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores On Saturday night, in the second inning, Dillon Gee lofted a fly ball to left with Dilson Herrera on third and one out. Donald Lutz, a German citizen playing on German Appreciation Night, settled under the ball and caught it. Tim Teufel told Herrera to stay put and Herrera did. The Mets didn’t score — […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Jenrry Mejia, Replay, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler |
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