The New York Mets currently have on their roster five pitchers who were born before their last world championship, which speaks to both the age of the pitchers and the last world championship. One, Max Scherzer, hasn’t been able to make his most recent scheduled start because of neck spasms. One, Tommy Hunter, missed time […]
 
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 |  Adam Ottavino, Age, Beauty, David Robertson, Justin Verlander, Team History 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. “Fuck, 33, too soon.” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Age, Donn Clendenon, Mortality, Steve Renko, Without My first numerical obsession as a baseball fan developed in the waning days of the 1969 regular season. There was nothing waning about late September and early October if you loved the Mets, but I did catch on, at age six, to the finite nature of the schedule, so I figured out that the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Brooks Pounders, Chuck Hernandez, Coaches, Cubs, Dave Eiland, Jeremy Accardo, Julio Franco, Pete Alonso, Phil Regan, Ricky Bones, Todd Frazier, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font He was born. He joined a baseball team that had been as bad at its profession as any group that works with baseballs had ever been. 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Age, Milestones, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver's Birthday On Monday night, the Mets got not quite enough of what they needed and a bit too much of what they didn’t. While that may sound like a description of any given one-run loss, this one struck me as quintessentially Metsian. I know I’ve seen it before, again and again. Their starting pitcher could have gotten […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Cynicism, Ike Davis, LaTroy Hawkins, Loss, Marlon Byrd, Shaun Marcum The first thing we do, let’s kill all the Moyers. Not literally, of course. If we didn’t have Jamie Moyer pitching in the major leagues at the age of 49 years, 5 months and 12 days, what would those of us who clock in at a mere 49 years and 4 months have to feel relatively […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Age, Anchorman, Crafty Lefthanders, Jamie Moyer, Johan Santana, Steve Carlton |
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