I like to say that all you can reasonably ask for from your team year after year is that they give you hope. To me, that has always implied that you can hope your team will contend in earnest for a postseason berth, and to do that, your team has to win more games than […]
 
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. |
 41 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Losing Record, Team History, Winning I can’t take me anywhere. I can, but I can’t depend on me to respond as social norms suggest I should. I took myself to Citi Field Tuesday night at the invitation of a friend. The ostensible lure was the manifestation of that old Wilponian chestnut, Meaningful Games In September, MGIS for short (mishegas for our […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Cleon Jones, Dee Gordon, Fred Wilpon, Marv Throneberry, September, Tom Koehler, Tom Seaver, Uniforms World War II ended in 1945, yet there were handfuls of particularly stubborn Japanese soldiers in far-flung outposts who hadn’t gotten word or refused to believe what they were told about their nation’s surrender. One, Hiroo Onoda, was found to still be fighting a war that was no longer in progress as late as 1974. And […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Braves, Comebacks, Daniel Murphy, Japanese Soldiers Who Didn't Surrender, Roger Angell Bartolo Colon presumably sets eight or nine major league records every time he steps on a major league field, so it’s understandable if this one escaped the bookkeepers’ notice. To be fair, it’s probably not a record, but I’m gonna say it is. By defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-2, on a rain-delayed Thursday night/Friday morning at […] For consistency’s sake, we shall continue to refer to the state of affairs in which we’ve been thoroughly immersed as a pennant race, even if ours is the only team any longer racing. Mathematical niceties demand we maintain on our faces an expression of severe purposefulness when the subjects of games ahead and games remaining arise. […] 40 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Black Cat, Bryce Harper, Clint Robinson, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Howie Rose, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Matt Williams, Michael Conforto, Pennant Race, Ron Swoboda, Stephen Strasburg, Yoenis Cespedes The team that was a surefire bet to cruise to another division title got off to a rocky start. But then they began to right the ship, they had their pitching lined up, and once September rolled around, they took dead aim at first place, inching closer and closer day by day until they were […] 47 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Dario Alvarez, David Wright, Erik Goeddel, Hansel Robles, Jeurys Familia, Jon Niese, Michael Stanley Band, Rich Sauveur, September, Yoenis Cespedes Throughout my childhood and into my adolescence, if I had to see the dentist, I was dragged from Long Beach to some deteriorating section of Brooklyn. We stayed loyal to our family dentist even though our family had left that deteriorating section of Brooklyn six months before I was born (later I’d find out that […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braden Looper, Darryl Strawberry, David Aardsma, Dorothy Hamill, Dwight Gooden, Matt Harvey, Reggie Jackson, Shaun Marcum, T#m Gl@v!ne Into every life, a little Marlin must fall. And I don’t mean former teal bedbug Cody Ross. The baseball season, even a successful baseball season, isn’t fully textured until the New York Mets lose an aggravating game to the Florida/San Juan/Miami Marlins in walkoff, gnashoff, fumeoff, bleepoff fashion. After 25 such endings in the past 20 […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bullpen, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, John McGraw, Marlins, Pitchers Hitting, Rosters, Team History, Tsuris, Working Girl We now interrupt the Mets’ first pennant race in seven years to race all the way around the bases for the first time in five years. We won’t pause to do so, however, for this is one of those plays in which you can’t hit pause. You hit and you run, or as Tom Hanks […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Nola, Albert Achievement Awards, Angel Pagan, Bad News Bears, Bud Harrelson, Charlie Neal, Damion Easley, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Domonic Brown, Don Hahn, Doug Flynn, Edgardo Alfonzo, Gil Flores, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Inside The Park Home Run, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Kevin Elster, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bradley, Marlon Anderson, Richie Ashburn, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Steve Henderson, Team History, That Thing You Do, Tim Bogar, Timo Perez, Wally Backman, Warner Wolf In the land of small sample sizes, the curious factoid is king, so all hail this minuscule nugget: The current series against the Red Sox represents the first series in which the Mets have dropped the first two home games versus Boston since the 1986 World Series. Obviously, a world championship is just days away. Until then, […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Bobbleheads, Eric O'Flaherty, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Joe Kelly |
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