As long as I live, when I hear “manager of the New York Mets,” this 1970 Topps card is the image that will stick with me. Gil Hodges is to Mets managers what sky is to earth: he’s what’s up there above everybody else as high as you can see. I loved Davey Johnson, I […]
 
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. |
It's not losses in October or September or April through August that try Mets fans' souls. It's what goes down in the offseason. It's Lastings Milledge for Brian Schneider and Ryan Church and all the rationalizing one is forced into when it happens. Hey, Schneider's a pretty good defensive catcher. He gives us strength up the […] When all was said and done, maybe Lastings Milledge should have just kept jogging down the right field line that very firstpromising June afternoon, shaken everybody’s hand goodbye and then hit the road. For it seemed the moment he displayed a bit of verve and panache, he was on somebody’s list…and I don’t mean this extraordinarily memorable […] That was the last time Titanic saw daylight. I remember reading a quote from a young man who worked for the Al Gore campaign in 2000. The Supreme Court decision that halted all vote-counting in Florida came down on December 12, a Tuesday night. For months after, the kid confessed, he felt haunted on […] Whoever is responsible for placing advertising on mets.com has replaced the offer to download select (and purely hypothetical) games from the Mets 2007 Postseason directly to your PC with one that says you can download select 2007 Mets Full Games directly to your PC. It’s not a fine distinction and we applaud the alteration. We do, however, […] Gl@v!ne gone. Mota gone. Now the generally unlistenable Tom McCarthy has packed up his microphone for Philadelphia, where, if his slowness on the draw remains true to form, the Phillies will be clinching the 2007 N.L. East any minute now. These are marvelous consolation prizes, I tell you what. I wasn't a fan of McCarthy's. Nothing personal, […] The players were confident in mid-September. • “I can't see how we can lose unless we all drop dead,” declared one of the pitchers. • “I don't see how we can lose unless everything goes wrong,” the starting catcher predicted. • “I think we'll win now,” was the future Hall of Famer's verdict. • “We will walk in,” enthused […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, New York Giants I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you — kisses that I thought were special because of your lips and your smile and all your color and life. I used to think that was the real you, when you smiled. But now I know you don't mean any of it. You just save […] First Glavine, now Mota. Gone and gone! Ohmigod, what have we done to deserve this? Not having to root any longer for two guys I and, I suspect, most of us never wanted on the Mets must be like when your sentence is suspended by a kindly judge or president. It’s a Get Out Of […] |
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