The barrage of Rob Manfred-encouraged ya gotta gamble on baseball! entreaties overwhelming SNY’s airwaves in some incarnation seemingly every half-inning (never mind that Major League Baseball in the minuscule personage of Bowie Kuhn once cast out Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle — in retirement — for accepting jobs that required them to golf with a […]
 
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. |
Standard numerical milestone acknowledgements aside, the proper anniversary to fondly recall Gary Carter would have been the 8th. Gary Carter wore 8 and, presumably because he wore 8, cherished 8. Marty Noble told a story about visiting Gary Carter’s house during Spring Training and encountering a keypad in order to enter the property. Noble either […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1985 Mets, 1989 Mets, An Appreciation, Gary Carter 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. And when the morning light On Wednesday night, October 2, 1985, at Busch Stadium, Tommy Herr batted for the St. […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bob Gibson, Dwight Gooden, Jerry Koosman, Sandy Koufax, Tom Seaver MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans. True, they no longer have Thom […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2020 Mets, 60-Man Pool, Chili Davis, Darryl Strawberry, Gordon Beckham, Hunter Strickland, Jared Hughes, John Pacella, Jon Matlack, Luis Rojas, Melky Cabrera, Ruben Tejada, Summer 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 His name was Dr. Lago. He left Cuba years before and wound up teaching Spanish in my junior high. He was what you’d kindly call irascible. The translation of irascible en Español is also irascible, which is good information to retain in case he calls on me. Not much […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, Irascible Junior High Spanish Teachers, Jack Reinheimer, Jose Reyes, Losing, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, The 25-4 Game, The 26-7 Game, Tommy Milone, Von Hayes What to do with a 1-0 loss? Throw stuff? Suck it up? Shrug? There are no wrong answers. It is the baseball epitome of close but no cigar. I’m not sure of the appeal of cigars, but one run sure sounded good on Wednesday. One Met run, that is. There was one National run, and it […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2008 Mets, Bob Sebra, Fernando Salas, Jay Bruce, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Mike Pelfrey, Robert Gsellman, Tanner Roark, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes It doesn’t take a Richard Henry Lee galloping down to the House of Burgesses and back (stopping off in Stratford long enough to refresh the missus) to deliver a resolution that declares unequivoca-LEE that the four-game series the New York Mets just completed against the Chicago Cubs is and ought to be considered among the […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 1981 Mets, 1985 Mets, Cubs, Edgardo Alfonzo, Records, Sweeps, Team History, Wilmer Flores 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 When they want a batter Today is Rick Aguilera’s 53rd birthday, which means it’s my 52nd birthday. We are calendar brothers, born exactly one year apart to different families in different places, but connected by the Brotherhood of December 31. Rick — or Aggie, as […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 1986 Mets, Birthdays, Calendar Brothers, Rick Aguilera |
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