The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1963 Mets, 2015 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bill Haas, Claude Raymond, Danny Mendick, Dismal Present, Eric Campbell, George Weiss, Jack Fisher, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathan Arauz, Mark Canha, Phil Bickford, Potentially Brighter Future, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Royals, Special Draft, Steve Cohen, Team History Having ten days earlier properly commemorated the 50th anniversary of making Flushing my recurring personal destination, I opened my second half-century of going to Mets games Sunday afternoon by taking a left field Promenade Box eye’s view of The Great Justin Verlander proving effective enough to a) quell the Washington Nationals by a score of […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Beautiful Days for Ballgames, Billy Pierce, Conversations, Dilson Herrera, Eras, Football, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Pedro Borbon, Repurposing, Trade Deadline So much for well-intentioned inertia. The fourth-place Mets aren’t content to do nothing. Fourth-place they appear resigned to, but they’ll be damned if they don’t keep busy while maintaining it. David Robertson was not looking to be moved, yet moved he’s been, to his seventh major league team, traded late Thursday night to the Miami […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Business, Catch Me If You Can, Closers, David Robertson, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Kodai Senga, Marco Vargas, Mark Canha, Marlins, Ronald Hernandez, Trade Deadline, Trades In one of the climactic scenes of the first season of Mad Men, ad agency head Bert Cooper instructed impatient Pete Campbell, by way of exonerating a man originally named Dick Whitman for shadily assuming the identity of the late Don Draper, “The Japanese have a saying: A man is whatever room he is in, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2024 Mets, David Robertson, Mad Men, Moneyball, Ronny Mauricio, Rooms, Trade Deadline, Well-Intentioned Inertia These first-place New York Mets keep building on what they’ve accomplished. They’ve been doing it from Day One of this season. They’re still doing it. They have to keep doing it, not only because the second-place Atlanta Braves, currently three games behind us, are as formidable an opponent as the 1984 Cubs or 2022 Yankees, […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Aborted Comebacks, Daniel Vogelbach, DJ Stewart, Drag Bunts, Fenway Park, Historical Plunges, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Alfaro, Little League Home Runs, Max Scherzer, Not Quite Day-Night Doubleheaders, Offensive Pillars Not Producing, Suspended Games, The Many Home Run Balls of Max Scherzer Last week, Major League Baseball released its schedule for next year and I shrugged. It was the epitome of too soon. But last year, when this year’s came out, I figuratively unfolded it and zeroed in on one particular box in quest of pertinent information: Would the Mets be home on July 11, 2023? They would not. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anniversaries, Beeping, Bill Veeck, Camp Day, Citi Field, Fountains of Wayne, Jeff McNeil Calling Himself Safe to No Avail, Jose Quintana, Loners in a Mood, Midweek Afternoon Games, Omar Narvaez, Promenade, Shea Stadium, Stolen Glances from Ramps, Unnatural Memory for Dates, White Sox When your opponent puts double digits in the run column and you win, anyway… When you record a final score in your favor that you haven’t posted since the final months of the previous century… When the prohibitive favorite to lead your team in his signature category for a record-tying fifth consecutive season might be compelled to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1966 Mets, ABBA, Brett Baty, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Carrasco, DJ Stewart, Eddie Bressoud, Francisco Alvarez, Home Runs, Mets shortstops, Moment of Silence, New York Giants, Pete Alonso, Polo Grounds, Robin Ventura, Team History, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, White Sox One of the greatest baseball anecdotes ever repeated flew off the bat of Pittsburgh Crawfords catcher Josh Gibson, who was reported to have hit a ball out of Forbes Field “so high and so far that no one saw it come down,” leaving the umpire no choice but to call it a home run without […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Color Catchers, David Robertson, Dropped Popups, Hiro Fujiwara, Josh Gibson, Kodai Senga, Marv Albert, Max Carey, Max Muncy, Offensive Futility, Pete Alonso, Scoring Changes, Tin Cup, Unmade Double Plays On July 11, 2023, the National League defeated the American League in an All-Star Game for the first time since 2012, which added a flourish to the 50th Anniversary celebration of this correspondent’s first game at Shea Stadium, which occurred on July 11, 1973. To commemorate the seminal occasion, I dug into the Faith and […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Camp Day, FAFIF Classics, Felix Millan, First Impressions, Jerry Koosman, Jim Fregosi, Jim McAndrew, Lee May, Leo Durocher, M. Donald Grant, Marvin the Counselor, Mets Yearbook, Rich Chiles, Shea Stadium, Tommie Agee, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays If you were beginning to worry that the All-Star break would impede the Mets’ gathering momentum for a push toward playoff contention, rest easy this week. There is no momentum. There will be no playoff contention. All provisional prognostication is subject to change with the emergence of the next six-game winning streak, but by the time […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Break, Flat as a Pancake, Hit By Pitch, Joe Musgrove, Kodai Senga, Manny Machado, Max Scherzer, Tommy Pham |
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