Care for an omen? The Mets lost their last game of the season in 1968, a home game. They then lost their first game of the season in 1969, also a home game. That particular unpromising strand of homestanding Closing Day/Opening Day synergy hadn’t transpired again until they lost, 9-1, at home last October 1 […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Ojeda, Brewers, Buttleyness, Drew Smith, Freddy Peralta, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Lopez, Jose Quintana, Ken MacKenzie, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Omens, One-Hitters, Rhys Hoskins, Starling Marte, Team History Anyway, it’s turned cold and rainy here lately, but I like winter. Pending iffy weather, the Mets are positioned to carve a statistical triptych of despair this afternoon in Philadelphia. Thursday night, they clinched a losing record for the season. Friday night, they were […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Brett Baty, Dillon Gee, Historical Plunges, Mathematically Eliminated, Sideways, Statistical Triptych of Despair, Team History, The Years After, Tylor Megill I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to baseball. When I was a kid, the issue at hand was helpfully childlike in its simplicity. It went something like […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Al Leiter, Bartolo Colon, Bobby Jones, Bobby Ojeda, Craig Swan, Dillon Gee, Don Cardwell, Dwight Gooden, Jack Fisher, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Koosman, Johan Santana, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mike Hampton, Mike Pelfrey, Mike Scott, Mike Torrez, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Pat Zachry, Pedro Martinez, Pete Harnisch, Randy Jones, Roger Craig, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, Tom Seaver “And when the twelfth-largest company in the world controls the most awesome, goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?” When last we visited with Howard Beale on DiamondVision more than six years ago, he was urging us to get up right now, sit […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bobby Ojeda, Network, Poochie, SNY, The Simpsons Bartolo Colon, who won Tuesday night’s game, is old (by baseball player standards), portly (check out this self-administered belly-fat check) and never seems to be taking himself all that seriously (though of course he is). Colon doesn’t have a blazing fastball anymore, but what he does have is pinpoint location and a deep reservoir of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Bobby Ojeda, Juan Lagares, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler Congratulations to proven Amazin’ research maven Mathias Kook and talented Metsian writer William Akers for understanding the 1986 World Series was a Fall Classic Sly Stone probably adored, for almost Everybody [Was] A Star. As noted here, 26 of the 43 players who played in the last truly great World Series — parochially speaking — […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bobby Ojeda, Danny Heep, Doug Sisk, Kevin Elster, Mookie Wilson, Rafael Santana, Roger McDowell, Tim Teufel, Wally Backman ***WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THANKS FOR PLAYING.*** One of the defining moments of the 1986 World Series occurred almost a year before the Fall Classic to end all Fall Classics was played. On November 13, 1985, the Mets sent John Christnesen, Calvin Schiraldi, Wes Gardner and LaSchelle Tarver to the Red Sox in exchange for Bobby […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Bobby Ojeda, Calvin Schiraldi, John Christensen, John Mitchell, MLB Productions, Red Sox, Wes Gardner Just for an instant, a halo formed around the 2012 Mets. It happened when Bryan Petersen swung through Bobby Parnell’s two-out, one-two pitch in the bottom of the ninth at Marlins Park early Wednesday evening. It was strike three, but Kelly Shoppach couldn’t hold onto it. Petersen dutifully took off for first, but Shoppach found […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Closing Day, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fans, Scott Hairston Now he’s at 18. Now this is getting to be a whole other kind of fun. Oh, it was good, clean, dry fun — no rain, please; it disturbs everything for which he stands — from early on this season. And it was a veritable overflowing fountain cup of fun in the middle of the year […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Bobby Ojeda, David Cone, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Jerry Koosman, R.A. Dickey, Tom Seaver Forty seasons of home games at Shea Stadium and Citi Field. Literally hundreds of visits. Wins. Losses. Elation. Heartbreak. The gamut of human emotions. The whole bit. Except for a ball. I had never gotten a ball from the field of play. Not foul, not fair, not batting practice. Mine. But that has changed. Thirty-nine years […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Actual Baseball, Batting Practice, Blogging, Bobby Ojeda, Carlos Lee, Greg Dobbs, LOOK OUT |
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