Every day between October 20, 2006, and October 8, 2015, had something in common. For those 3,276 consecutive days spanning exactly 468 weeks, the New York Mets did not play a postseason baseball game. The total is a little misleading since the vast majority of those days featured no postseason baseball games, but enough of […]
 
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. |
 22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2012 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Carlos Gomez, Chris Young, Collin McHugh, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, R.A. Dickey Regardless of what the Trade Winds told us in the mid-1960s regarding the plight of displaced Southern California surfer boys, New York’s an awesome town when you’re the only baseball team around. Welcome to the autumn of our municipal content, the one featuring the Mets and, as of the completion of the Houston Astros’ shutout victory […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Elimination Day, New York, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude, Team History Maybe all the Mets needed was a little sunshine. The sun makes living things grow. The Mets appeared to be the opposite of a living thing since departing Cincinnati with a division title stuffed in their luggage. Perhaps they were under the impression they had entered the afterlife. Not quite. They had only qualified for it. […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bryce Harper, Closing Day, Jeurys Familia, Karma, Meaningful Gestures “2015 is over as far contending for a postseason spot goes, and we should just admit it.” The Mets lost their fourth consecutive game Saturday afternoon. They’re still invited to the playoffs. That doesn’t get revoked on account of style points. But the style they are finishing […] Pour yourself two fingers of your favorite morning beverage (or perhaps something stronger; no judgments) and drink to the digital flexibility of Yoenis Cespedes…and to the postseason not being over before it begins. Cespedes is nursing a bruise that covers his left ring and middle fingers after his hand got in the way of a Justin […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Contusion, Gilligan's Island, Small Favors, Yoenis Cespedes At last, I get the picture. (Photo by Andrew Richter) Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, the long dormant milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this, the tenth of ten installments, we make one last trip to our spiritual […] What can I tell you that you don’t already know? You know the Mets are the champions of the National League Eastern Division. They won that title Saturday and they maintained that title Sunday and as regards 2015, it is theirs forever. Even the NCAA can’t take it away. Every time I start to think about […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, Banner Day, Bryce Harper, Choo Choo Coleman, Day After Lineup, Jonathan Papelbon, Leon Janney, Lucas Duda, Polo Grounds, Rheingold, Rookie Hazing There have been 17 champagne celebrations for team accomplishments in New York Mets history. This is a scene from the 17th. Indulge me, Mets fans who weren’t viewers of Mad Men, as I channel Don Draper delivering — à la Matt Harvey on Saturday in Cincinnati — the most impressive pitching we had ever seen […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Division Clinching, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Complete and Utter Lack of Collapse, Mad Men, Monty Python, The Commitments A Nationals loss cut it from three to two. A powerful Mets win — Syndergaard, Duda and Granderson at the forefront — sliced it from two to one. That’s where the magic number stands now. With one more Mets win or one more Nats loss, the Mets will have officially qualified for the postseason. With one […] The fine folks of Steak ‘n’ Shake, a restaurant chain I’ve been known to patronize with a little too much enthusiasm for my optimal well-being, use as their slogan the phrase, “In Sight It Must Be Right.” Although its backstory has something to do with letting the customers see the meat that’s about to be […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Damion Easley, Jeurys Familia, Orioles, Steak 'n' Shake |
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