We have reached the third installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. I can’t swear it’s the middle installment, but below you’ll find the middle portion of the list: the seasons just before the median (Nos. 33-29); the median season (No. 28); and the seasons just beyond the median (Nos. […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1972 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1981 Strike, 1983 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2014 Mets, A Clockwork Orange, Brian Jordan, Change, Daily News, Jack Lang, John Mellencamp, M. Donald Grant, Mardie Cornejo, Mets Yearbook, Mike Piazza, Muse, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Shea Stadium, Sinus Headaches, Streaks, The Years After, Tom Seaver, Unresolved Mother Issues To properly commemorate what would have been the 79th birthday of Tom Seaver on Friday, the New York Mets made a gift of Daniel Vogelbach’s availability to anybody who wants him. Technically, it was a non-tendering, but a gift is a gift. Vogelbach’s status as beloved Met who could deliver a hit on demand was […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Bob Murphy, Crazy Eddie, Daniel Vogelbach, Luis Guillorme, Pulp Fiction, Team History, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday, WHN Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver If you’ve ever met me outside Citi Field to go to a game, I’ve probably added a minute or two to our entrance because I always insist on detouring to check on my brick, the one that reads: OUR FIRST DATE The brick commemorates the first time my future wife and I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1987 Mets, 1993 Mets, Gene Clines, Jeff Innis, Moment of Silence, Pirates 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 was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which made a lot of sense: I loved baseball and writing, so why not put the two together? But I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Beane, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Daulton, Dave Smith, Fenway Park, Lenny Dykstra, Marty Noble, Oil Can Boyd, Phillies, Ron Darling, Wally Backman Breaking news: Mets starting pitcher actually gets win! A Mets starter hadn’t done that in 19 games, tying a club record set in the less than sterling 1980 season. Seth Lugo said “no more” Saturday night, allowing just a solo homer to Rhys Hoskins over five innings and fanning eight. Of course, if Lugo’s starting that […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 2020 Mets, Dominic Smith, Edwin Diaz, Erasmo Ramirez, Juan Lagares, Michael Conforto, Patrick Mazeika, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo, Strange Events, Todd Frazier Zack Wheeler, in his fifth major league season of actually pitching as opposed to healing, has never pitched for a Mets team that finished with a winning record. The only two good seasons during his injury-interrupted tenure were the seasons he missed with Tommy John surgery and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1999 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Over .500, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler It was a June evening, the season before this last one, at Citi Field, by one of those tables out beyond center field where you stand and you chat and you chew. The combination momentarily got the best of me as a crumb went down the wrong […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, An Appreciation, Moment of Silence, Stats for Nuts, Terry Pendleton, William Goldman, Willie McGee In light of recent staff-depleting events, I’ve found myself thinking of two names embedded in my baseball consciousness as very specific avatars relevant to our current situation: Marty Bystrom and John Candelaria. Candelaria you might recognize as a veteran pitcher who was acquired by the Mets under stressful circumstances. It was the middle of September […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Grizzled Veterans, John Candelaria, Marty Bystrom, Robert Gsellman, September, Unheralded Rookies Casey and Joan get together again for a little Mets baseball. Mets fans wait. It’s what we do. We waited through four barren seasons to have National League baseball in the first place, only to wait seven seasons stuck in ninth or tenth place. The Jobian patience mandated by the minute progress of the earliest […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Anthony Recker, Casey Stengel, Cody Ross, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, John Buck, Kevin McReynolds, Kirk Gibson, Post Traumatic Mets Disorder, Rain Delays |
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