Some wins you’ve got to have. You traverse an ocean and lose the first of two scheduled high-profile games, you’ve got to come home with the second contest in your carry-on. You catapult ahead from what the odds termed prohibitively behind, you’ve got to remain ahead until the end. You’ve got this reputation for inevitably […]
 
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. |
 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Defensive Walkoff Wins, Drew Smith, London Series, Luis Torrens, Mets Third Basemen, Phillies, Self-Esteem, Soccer, Team History, Time of Day Welcome to the United Kingdom. Before you enter the country, you must fill out this customs form. NAME: New York Mets OCCUPATION: Major League Baseball Team PRIMARY DESTINATION WHILE VISITING: London Stadium REASON FOR VISIT: Baseball Games (2) WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DECLARE? • We declare we have swept our three most recent baseball games, from the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Customs, Danny Young, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Joe Hudson, Jose Iglesias, London Series, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Momentum, Pete Alonso, Taxi Squad A relatively stress-free win in which the Mets executed most facets of the sport at a higher level than their opponent for nine innings…was that too much to ask for? It was not. The Mets defeated an amorphous blob of unrefined talent better known as the Washington National Tuesday night, 6-3. They didn’t have to accidentally stumble […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Competence, David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, DJ Herz, Harrison Bader, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams I got chills several times on Saturday afternoon. The weather was beautiful, but there was something else in the air. A distinct hint of Strawberry. Darryl Strawberry’s No. 18 was retired by the New York Mets, the sixth time in the past nine seasons that the franchise has raised a number to the rafters. In the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Aging, Chills, Darryl Strawberry, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Retired Numbers, Sean Manaea The alchemy of desperation works in mysterious ways. The Mets… say their murky goodbye to Jorge Lopez; have an accountability meeting; decide they can do better for part-time catching and hitting with Luis Torrens than they any longer will with Omar Narváez; opt to provide regular reps for Christian Scott at Syracuse rather than let the rookie’s momentum stall […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alchemy, An Appreciation, Darryl Strawberry, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Retired Numbers, Starling Marte A 4:10 weekday start to conclude a home series against the Dodgers evoked, however briefly, one of the few peaks of the Mets baseball experience in the 2020s. On September 1, 2022, the Mets and Dodgers began play at Citi Field as leaders of their respective divisions. L.A. was running away with the West. The […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, 2024 Mets, Dodgers, Eras, Interludes, Jorge Lopez, Jorge Lopez’s Glove, Truth John Olerud was at Citi Field for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May, just as he was at Shea Stadium for the Mets game on the fourth Sunday in May a quarter-century before…though “just as” might be a stretch. In 2024, Olerud was a visitor, sitting in the stands, brought to the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Adrian Houser, Brett Baty, Curt Schilling, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Gary Cohen, Harrison Bader, James Schapiro, John Olerud, Joy, Logan Webb, Omar Narvaez, Pinch-Running, Sean Manaea, Starling Marte, Tyler Rogers, Walkoffs They’re probably not this bad, are they? How could they be? Twenty-two losses in thirty-one games seems to give us all the answer we need, as does the 3-12 stretch that’s unfurled since their last pairing of consecutive wins, not to mention the active streak of five defeats during which the most recent collapse or […] FLUSHING (FAF) — Scientists anxiously monitoring activities at the Flushing Meadows National Laboratory expressed amazement Friday night at the discovery of yet another way for the New York Mets to lose a baseball game, this time by blowing a sizable eighth-inning lead to the San Francisco Giants and then loading the bases in the bottom […] If things were going better for them, the Mets would have won a game in Cleveland, maybe two, possibly all three. I realize that’s akin to invoking the old saying that if Carlos Mendoza’s aunt’s frog had wings, then every day would be Christmas; there are a lot of old sayings tantamount to declaring things […] |
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