It’s not every day your favorite Major League Baseball franchise registers its 5,000th regular-season loss. The day our favorite Major League Baseball franchise registered its 5,000th regular-season loss, the skies clouded up all morning and afternoon; began to mist and drizzle as evening set in; and then began to pour down through the night. Somewhere […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1966 Mets, Braves, Carl Willey, David Peterson, Dennis Ribant, Don Bosch, Don Cardwell, Frank Lary, Kevin Pillar, Matt Olson, Max Fried, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Promise, Rain, Ron Hunt, Team History, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn 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 Mets lost their first exhibition game on Monday afternoon, but they won a ton of goodwill Monday morning by unveiling the patch they will wear on their uniforms throughout 2021 in memory of Tom Seaver. The homage presents the retired-number disc that hangs in the left field rafters at Citi Field in miniature: 41 […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Banner Day Doubleheader, Craig Anderson, Jesse Orosco, Moment of Silence, Patches, Team History, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter 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 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. When I first encountered Rod Kanehl, it was as an example of what not to be. The story is famous in Miracle Mets lore: After the Mets ascended to the lofty heights of .500 in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Rod Kanehl, Tom Seaver As any black cat could tell you, many of the seminal legends in Met lore involve the Cubs, including the go-to tale of the person who called a local newspaper sports department one fine day in 1964 to inquire how many runs the Mets scored in their […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Billy Taylor, Cubs, Down Period, Franchise Records, Jacob deGrom, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Luke Farrell, Met Lore, Pat Mahomes, Rose Marie, Strikeouts, Team History, Team Meetings, Tim Peterson, Todd Pratt When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of hitting. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 6-2, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1994 Mets, Chris Flexen, Curtis Granderson, Michael Conforto, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Odubel Herrera, Scores, Team History Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day via the most impressive thing Jim Bunning ever did for public consumption. Bunning threw a perfect game on Father’s Day […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Applause for a Visitor, Howie Rose, Jim Bunning, Moment of Silence, Perfect Games, Ralph Kiner, Shea Stadium The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter You have to love a team whose prospective greatest-hitting homegrown player ever has just tied an offensive record set by somebody from its toddler stages. What am I saying? You already do. Toward the end of a week defined by a streak, if not streakiness, we learned that when Michael Conforto doubled in the second inning at […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bryce Harper, Gnomes, Hockey, Jacob deGrom, Joe Christopher, McFadden's, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Noah Syndergaard, Potential, Rene Rivera, Team History |
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