The Mets, losers of seven consecutive ballgames, will win again. They may win their next scheduled date this very afternoon against the Brewers. Jacob deGrom is still one of the finest pitchers around and the Brewers are still — despite taking the first two games of this series — a last-place team with the worst […]
 
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 |  Frankie Rodriguez, Jimmy Nelson, Losing Streak It was the “Mambo No. 5” game. That’s one of the two ways I differentiate it from all the other games I’ve attended. In the seventh-inning stretch, they played “Mambo No. 5,” the very contemporary and very kitschy song Lou Bega was making famous late in the summer of 1999. I don’t know why they […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, Darryl Hamilton, Lou Bega, Moment of Silence I must have been inspired by the incessant promotional buzz generated by those Steve Miller Band concert spots, because in the spirit of the narrator of “Abracadabra,” I tried to conjure some rah. Maybe even some rah-rah. Undeterred by the six deadly frames that preceded them, I threw myself into the seventh, eighth and ninth […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Escobar, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer, Steve Miller Band, Sweeps The Mets work on Father’s Day, so it’s not surprising to look back and find they occasionally did something memorable come the third Sunday in June. Marv Throneberry legendarily didn’t touch first (or second) in 1962. Jim Bunning didn’t allow any Met to touch first in 1964. Somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, Ralph […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Father's Day, Fathers and Sons, New York Giants, Team History In case you hadn’t heard, the Mets made a trade in December 2012. Nobody ever mentions it every five minutes, so it might be unfamiliar to you. The Mets sent R.A. Dickey, the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner, plus two catchers with very large mitts, to the Toronto Blue Jays. Here is who the […] “In ‘reel’ life,” Jeff Merron noted in an ESPN critique of Bull Durham’s depiction of how baseball actually works, “[Nuke] LaLoosh is promoted from A ball to the majors in the span of a few months.” But in reality, “It’s almost unheard of — especially for a pitcher who struggled part of the season in […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Bull Durham, Moment of Silence, Nelson Doubleday And then I fell in love Then one day And when I didn’t 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Champions, Dillon Gee, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Matt Harvey, Peggy Lee, Rico Brogna, Stephen Stills, Tom Seaver Blue Jays came a-courtin’ Monday night. They know how to woo the Mets on the Mets’ home turf, especially as the hour grows late. As they had on nine previous Shea-based occasions, they brought a ripe opportunity for the Mets to win. The Mets graciously accepted what the Jays presented them and said “thank you […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Barry Bonnell, Brett Cecil, Danny Valencia, Lucas Duda, Mark Buehrle, Michael Cuddyer, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores This, too, was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been subconsciously groping for, the game embedded in our DNA. This was the game that signaled perhaps prosperity is neither illusory nor fleeting. This was the game that allowed us to quit looking over our shoulders to see if the worst was gaining […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Darrell Ceciliani, Dave Lemanczyk, Dillon Gee, Dilson Herrera, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Mike Foltynewicz, Paul Foytack, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud This was the game we’d been waiting for, the game we’d been dreading, the game we knew in our bones was coming. This was the game that you couldn’t hide inside the supposedly reassuring (and likely temporary) confines of first place. This was the game that came tumbling forcefully out of the closet of Metropolitan […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Torres, Bobby Parnell, Cameron Maybin, Carlos Torres, Danny Muno, Darrell Ceciliani, Dilson Herrera, Eric Campbell, Jack Leathersich, Jacob deGrom, Overmatched, Shelby Miller |
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