What was it Philippé Wynne was advising all over the radio in the autumn of 1976? Hey y’all, prepare yourself for the rubber game…win. Was that the lyric? Ah, close enough for rhythm & blues. However they heard it sung, the Mets apparently took a 43-year-old clue from the Spinners’ featured […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Adeiny Hechavarria, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Human Element, Interleague Play, JaCoby Jones, Miguel Cabrera, Rubber Games, Spencer Turnbull, The Spinners, Tigers, Zack Wheeler “Did you get everything we need for the party? I don’t think these painfully bland t-shirts we promised are going to excite anybody.” 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Amed Rosario, Drew Gagnon, Ervin Santana, Hector Santiago, Home Runs, Matt Kemp, Miguel Cabrera, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Tigers, Wild Parties, Wilson Ramos The Mets are 4-0 in the last four; were 0-5 in their previous five; and were 3-0 in the three before that. I’d say they’re streaky, but that doesn’t seem to cover a team that expertly wavers between exhilarating and exasperating. Are the Mets good enough to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 2007 Mets, Carlos Gomez, Dominic Smith, George Foster, Long Island, Paper Lace, Parkways, Recidivist Mets, Robert Caro, Shawn Green, Steven Matz, Sweeps, Wilson Ramos One of the benefits of going to a baseball game rather than watching it on television is there’s no seven-second delay. Everything that happens happens and, as the spirit of Walter Cronkite might suggest, you are there. But Tuesday night at Citi Field, which is where I […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Backpacks, Citi Field, Citi Pavilion, Friday Night Lights, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Manufacturers Hanover, Not Backpacks, Pete Alonso, Pocket Schedules, Walter Cronkite, Zack Wheeler What you want as a fan is for your team to be its best self always. Of course you do. Win. Win 162 times and then eleven more times and then shower us in confetti. Be so best en route to the Canyon of Heroes that our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Best Selves, Carlos Gomez, Fun, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Marlins, Mickey Callaway, Not Fun, One-Hitters, Pablo Lopez, Robinson Cano, Robinson Cano's nonsense, Steven Matz Hello, sir or madam, I am calling today from Metropolitan Research Inquiries, or MRI. Your name has been chosen at random from a database of fans of your baseball team to determine which ways you’d prefer your team to lose. Results will go into helping create potential […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Frustration, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Keon Broxton, Losing, Market Research, Michael Conforto, Zack Wheeler They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos The Mets are an ordinary ballclub. They’re definitely not very good, they’re probably not very bad, even if five losses on a six-game road trip leaves you believing they couldn’t be much worse. They could be. They could also be better. It’s a long season. Teams that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brodie Van Wagenen, Getaway Games, Hunter Renfroe, Jeff McNeil, Manuel Margot, Matt Strahm, Ordinary Baseball Team, Padres, Robert Gsellman, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido, Tyler Bashlor, Wilmer Font Pete Alonso was National League Rookie of the Month for April and National League Rookie of the Night on Tuesday. He is a veteran in kid’s clothing any time you hear him speak. He is a franchise player exploding all around us.
With the possible exception of Angel Hernandez, moral failings are undetectable after the fourteenth inning. They don’t call it “free baseball” only because conductors don’t come around to collect a step-up fare (though I can’t imagine Rob Manfred hasn’t contemplated implementing such a revenue-generating opportunity and labeling […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Angel Hernandez, Chris Flexen, Extra Innings, Jeff McNeil, Late Night Rationalizations, Miller Park, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Braun, Seth Lugo, Zack Wheeler |
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