After giving injury rehab his best shot among a flock of Toronto Blue Jay minor leaguers, native Ontarian and lifelong Cincinnati Red Joey Votto announced his retirement on August 22. Johnny Cueto, who made his season debut one day earlier for the Angels, pitched exactly once more in L.A. of A garb. The Halos considered […]
 
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. |
 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1966 Mets, Alex Young, Bob Murphy, Danny Young, Darrell Sutherland, Double Plays, Fran Healy, Gerry Arrigo, Huascar Brazoban, Jesse Winker, Larry Bearnarth, Longevity, Met Equity, Ralph Kiner, Rich Hill, Shea Stadium, Team History, Walks, Winning Streaks These days… I’m tempted to offer no notes on what feels, now that it’s been put in the books, like a perfect win. The Mets never trailed. When the score grew close, the Mets added on eventually. When the score grew close again, the Mets prevented it from becoming even — then added on immediately. The […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 000 Maniacs, 10, Bad News Bears, David Peterson, Feelings, Francisco Lindor These days, you don’t have to be in the New York area — or the outer limits of AM radio range — to keep up with the Mets. You just need an MLB account and a certain amount of cell service. Well, and a little luck. The beginning of the Mets’ game against the Red Sox found […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Giveaways, Howie Rose, Keith Raad, Luis Severino, MLB At Bat, Phil Maton, Red Sox Without knowing what they paid, I’d say the Mets got an excellent rate on their weekend spa treatment. They’ve rarely entered a Monday appearing more relaxed and ready to face whatever awaits them. In this case, it’s a playoff chase in September. The 2024 White Sox will make anybody look and feel fantastic. The 2024 White […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Francisco Lindor, Garrett Crochet, Pablo Reyes, Sean Manaea, September, Spa Treatment, Steve Carlton, Sweeps, Tom Seaver, White Sox The Mets beat the White Sox behind back-to-back homers from Pete Alonso and Jesse Winker, with Jose Butto surviving a decidedly shaky ninth to secure the save. That’s the brief, pertinent-facts-only recap of a game I absorbed in fits and starts — I’m out here in Tacoma getting my kid moved back into a dorm room, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Davis Martin, Futility, Jesse Winker, Jose Butto, Pete Alonso, White Sox The authors of this book are drawn to baseball’s great losers. Not to individuals, but to entire teams. We prefer our calamities as the product of collective effort, a shared culpability not unlike Watergate. […] Besides, to err is human, to screw up royally requires a team effort. 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, J.D. Martinez, Legends, Tylor Megill, White Sox, Worsts I liked it better when ballplayers talked about “turning the page” on bad days. Sometime in the past decade or so, turning the page morphed into flushing, and not the charming village in Queens whose northwestern edge we know so well. “You gotta flush it” became the page-turning mantra of choice. Maybe nobody reads printed […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Frank Deford, Jose Butto, Jose Iglesias, Lost in Space, Pete Alonso, Sideways, Vernacular That was a bad one. A bad one as in you shut off the TV and kept fixing it with a thousand-yard stare. It’s even crueler because once upon a time that was a good one: The Mets came back from a 4-0 deficit, with Harrison Bader striking the big blow, then went ahead when Starling Marte […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Disasters, Edwin Diaz, Harrison Bader, Losses, Phil Maton, Starling Marte You can never outguess baseball. Last time we saw the Mets, they were getting walked off in excruciating fashion by the Padres, a wrenching reversal that denied them a series win and an off-day on which to exhale. Next up: the other National League team threatening to run away and hide in the wild-card race. The […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Pfaadt, Diamondbacks, Geraldo Perdomo, Pete Alonso, Sean Manaea After their 131st game, the 2024 New York Mets accomplished something Sunday they hadn’t managed to do after their previous 130: they posted their first Unique Record of the year. With their loss to the Padres, they appear in the standings at 68-63. No Mets team has ever been 68-63 after 131 games. I can’t say […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George H.W. Bush, J.D. Martinez, Jose Iglesias, Jose Quintana, Leon Russell, Mark Vientos, Padres, Team History, The Simpsons, Unique Records, WCBS, White Sox |
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