Met offense is moping along as Met offense has made a habit of doing since its founding in 1962. Then amid the mopery emerges some genuine hope in the form of a Triple-A outfielder who brings to New York a bat loaded with hits, making things a little less mopey, at least for a spell. […]
 
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. |
 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1963 Mets, Hamilton, Joe Hicks, Moment of Silence, Polo Grounds The Original Mets were stocked primarily by a legendarily threadbare expansion draft that left the Mets capable of winning one of every four games they’d play in their first year. With a full season’s experience under their collective belt, the Slightly Less Original Mets took the field for their second year and won eleven more […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2015 Mets, Anthony Recker, Bill Haas, Claude Raymond, Danny Mendick, Dismal Present, Eric Campbell, George Weiss, Jack Fisher, John Mayberry Jr., Jonathan Arauz, Mark Canha, Phil Bickford, Potentially Brighter Future, Rafael Ortega, Reed Garrett, Royals, Special Draft, Steve Cohen, Team History Look at Dan Napoleon On May 11, 1969, the New York Mets woke up in as good a situation as they’d ever enjoyed after 28 games: 13-15, a mark they’d reached previously only in […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, 1967 Mets, 1969 Mets, Amos Otis, Charley Smith, Felix Mantilla, Jim Hickman, Ken Boyer, Mets Outfielders-Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen, Mets Third Basemen-Outfielders, Team History The following scene occurred at Caledonian Hospital in Flatbush on this very afternoon in 1962. Or so I’ve decided 59 years after the fact. I know ya might be in th’ mood t’ wail yer lungs out, young feller, what seein’ ya just got yerself born, but no need t’ be spooked. It’s just yer ol’ […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Birthdays, Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Larry Burright, New Year's Eve, Possibly Apocryphal Origin Stories, Ron Hunt, Tim Harkness Bill James recently tweeted, “Things happen in baseball every day of the season which haven’t happened before. It isn’t ‘History’ unless someone writing a history of baseball or a history of the franchise or some such would bother to mention it. Otherwise, it’s just an oddity, or trivia.” In that case, I’m here to mention […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1989 Mets, Bill James, Billy McKinney, David Cone, Duke Snider, Johneshwy Fargas, Juan Samuel, Rich Hill, Rod Kanehl, Roel Ramirez, Stephen Tarpley, Team History, Tommy Hunter, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores “Sure we’ll be better. How in hell could we be worse?” As Spring Training prognostications coming off losing seasons go, no Met ever nailed it any better than Roger Craig did in 1963. Following a grand total of 40 wins in 1962, a pledge to not make that inaugural year look good by comparison was all […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2021 Mets, Happy Horsespit, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Roger Craig, Spring Training Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Well you’re a real tough cookie In 1962, the Mets promised their fans that Shea Stadium would be ready for 1963. It wasn’t. So instead, they invited them […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Jay Horwitz, Mets Alumni, Polo Grounds, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium “You don’t know how to ease my pain…” The Mets lost 7-3 to the Diamondbacks on Friday night, one night after losing to the Diamondbacks, 6-3. Three runs scored on each of two consecutive nights might very well be taken […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2006 Mets, Chris Beck, Diamondbacks, Dom Smith, Godley & Creme, Imaginary Sandy Alderson, Jose Reyes, Kevin Plawecki, M*A*S*H, Mickey Callaway, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Seth Lugo, Stream of Consciousness, The West Wing, Wilmer Flores, Zack Godley Jimmy Piersall and the Mets might not have been the best fit when they came together for 40 games in 1963, but no .194 hitter ever left behind a more camera-ready legacy. The story’s been told as much as any from the second season of New York Mets baseball. Piersall, who had his talents and […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Casey Stengel, Dallas Green, Jimmy Piersall, Josh Edgin, Moment of Silence, Neil Walker, Replay Review, Seventh-Inning Stretch, Terry Collins, Tim Harkness, What Now With This Team? For nine innings Saturday night, you might have believed you were watching the Mets perform in historically frustrating fashion, better known as just another game from the past eight weeks. On April 30, the Mets had risen to eight games above .500, Michael Conforto was soaring atop an OPS of 1.118 and the only change […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1963 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1985 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Dario Alvarez, Darryl Strawberry, Extra Innings, Frank Lary, Jacob deGrom, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, Jim Hickman, Jim Maloney, John Tudor, Johnny Lewis, Julio Teheran, Kelly Johnson, Ken Dayley, Larry Bearnarth, Moment of Silence, Parks & Recreation, Recidivist Mets, Ron Darling, Team History |
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