On August 5, 2004, Victor Zambrano started his first game as a New York Met, struggled into the sixth inning but earned a win. David Wright hit his third big league home run, part of a National League warning shot six-RBI onslaught. Vance Wilson went deep. Ricky Bottalico threw 2-1/3 scoreless innings. Richard Hidalgo drove […]
 
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. |
I'd feel better about our long-term future if I hadn't learned that Mike Pelfrey is the third Met rookie pitcher to win his first two starts in the Majors and that the previous two to do so were Dick Selma and Gary Gentry. Fine fellows, representative careers: Selma was the second-best hurler to emerge from […] Eleven runs in one inning. Two grand slams in one inning. Seven walkoff wins in one month. A nine-game road winning streak. An inside-the-park home run. A cycle. A homer hit by the oldest man ever to homer. A 200th career victory. A 300th career save. Eleven pitchers start. Two stud prospects debut. Eight outfield assists by a fourth outfielder. Twenty-one consecutive scoreless innings by one reliever. Nine […] With the Mets up 7-5, I began to think in terms of The Record, the one that had stood unsurpassed for 27 seasons. It's so rare you get to see that kind of history made. We're still waiting on a 12-game winning streak to say nothing of a hitless shutout victory. Yes, we saw the […] Call it evidence of adolescence either delayed or hopelessly extended, but Stephanie and I remain aficionados of the totally awesome high school movie of the '80s and '90s. The market was flooded by the teen genre for more than two decades, yet only every few years did a really great one come along. This is […] We interrupt this Carlos Zambrano-Tom Glavine pitchers’ duel to bring you the following bulletin: Fonzie’s home. Almost. It’s just a minor league deal. It may very well amount to little more than an organizational favor to someone who still has family working as a coach in the minors. There’s no obvious spot on a first-place roster for a […] As Saturday morning is traditionally Schoolhouse Rock time, 61 is a magic number — our magic number. Any combination of Mets wins and somebody else's losses adding up to 61 makes us division champs. The Phillies have the fewest losses in the East among teams that aren't us, so they're the still the bottom half […] Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them…sort of. So I’m sitting here sorting through more 1986 memories. Just like that, it’s 27 Fridays down and only 16 Flashbacks to go. So much Baseball Like […]  2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2001 Mets, Flashback Friday Everything I needed to know I learned on the backs of my baseball cards… • Tom established himself as one of baseball's premier pitchers as he led the Mets to their amazing pennant and World Series triumphs. • Won first game the Mets ever defeated Sandy Koufax, led I.L. in ERA in 1967, and also set strikeout […] Trevor Hoffman, losing pitcher for the National League in the All-Star Game, quoted in the Post, on the chances of the New York Mets winning the World Series: You’re not just necessarily going to wrap up the trophy and send it to them. We’re three months away from that. I don’t think there is enough pitching in […] |
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