Mr. 1973, you can come in now. It’s time for you to meet your grandseason. His name is 2016. Do you see the resemblance? Yes, right there, it’s in his trajectory. Pick him up. Hold him. Have a gander at his late August. Normally for a bouncing baby playoff team, it would be much higher. […]
 
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. |
 40 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2016 Postseason, Amazin' Bloodlines, Wild Card, You Gotta Believe The 2016 New York Mets will play a 163rd game. We know that much, even as we’re desperate to know more. The Mets beat a lifeless-looking Phillie team on an odd night at Citizens Bank Park, with a brisk, chilly wind knocking down anything hit to center or right. In the early going Ryan Howard tried to hit […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Fernando Salas, Jay Bruce, Pennant Race, Robert Gsellman, Ryan Howard, T.J. Rivera, Wild Card The forces of good were temporarily foiled Thursday night in St. Louis by Yadier Molina and dunderheaded officiating. Like havoc wreaked by rain on the late-September schedule, hardy perennials are hard to avoid. The Cardinals and Reds were locked in a 3-3 tie in the bottom of the ninth. The Cards had Matt Carpenter on first […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Elimination Day, Giants, Rain, Sam Rice, Sheadenfreude, Ties, Umpiring, Video Review, Yadier Molina Wednesday night’s win over the Marlins was full of encouraging signs for the Mets, and left me feeling something I’ve rarely felt in a tight race’s last few days: a sense of calm. Seth Lugo looked shaky early, struggling to command his pitches and reminding us that for all his meritorious service, he’s written an out-of-nowhere story that makes Jacob […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, James Loney, Jay Bruce, Pennant Race, Seth Lugo The Mets are 84-74. They have never, in the history of the franchise, been 84-74 before. There is no inherent significance to having achieved this statistical milestone. It’s simply something I deduced after staring at their record for a moment. To have ever been 84-74, the Mets would have — in the segments of their past […] 29 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curt Gowdy, Endings, Jay Bruce, Juan Lagares, Lucas Duda, Noah Syndergaard, Records, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes I knew Monday night’s game against the Marlins would be emotionally wrenching. I think we all did. But I wasn’t prepared for just how tough it would be, and how tough it kept being. There was the sight of every Marlin wearing Jose Fernandez‘s No. 16, and the knowledge that it would never be worn again. There was […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Fernandez, Justin Bour, Marlins, Martin Prado, Moment of Silence, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes A Unicorn romps around Flushing. Sunday was ostensibly Closing Day at Citi Field. More like Door Left Ajar Day, I suppose. On paper — the glossy, accordion-foldable kind that fits easily in your pocket — it was what it sometimes is. September 25 versus the Phillies was definitely the final scheduled home game of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Closing Day, Robert Gsellman, Shutouts, Unicorn Scores Under the format that’s been in place since 2001, you usually play your division rivals nineteen times a season. As a result, you become intimately familiar with them. When the Mets play somebody from the National League Central or West or American League, it’s almost as if we’re welcoming or visiting special guest stars. You […] The standings do not recognize moral victories. A 2-0 perfect game counts the same as some hideous crapfest against a second-division opponent that you win 9-6 despite walking the ballpark. The same goes for losses — the manager turning over the buffet after sending the backup catcher to the mound doesn’t mean the defeat was hideous enough to cost […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gavin Cecchini, Lucas Duda, Michael Mariot, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud Met pinstripes are magical. Put any player in them and they perform wondrous feats. Players you’d all but forgotten about. Players you’d barely heard of before. Players on whose backs it would not occur to you to pursue a postseason berth. They’re all here, whoever they are, and they’re wearing Mets uniforms in the service […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Gabriel Ynoa, Improvisation, Michael Conforto, Sean Gilmartin, Travis d'Arnaud |
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