Symptomatic of the proliferation of Interleague scheduling, the Mets opened their home season against the Toronto Blue Jays this past April, winning three straight. It was fun in the moment, even if the moment didn’t portend anything special for the 2025 Mets in the long run. It also didn’t indicate there were any obstacles the […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1977 Mets, Andres Gimenez, Blue Jays, Bob L. Miller, Chris Bassitt, Dale Murray, Elimination Day, Expansion, Jackson Todd, Jerry Koosman, John Olerud, Juan Berenguer, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bomback, Max Scherzer, Mookie Wilson, Nino Espinosa, Roy Lee Jackson, Team History In case you didn’t stay up Thursday night, the Mets stayed down again in Los Angeles. They lost all four games they played there this week. They lost in such numbing fashion that when they appeared on the verge of losing in a fairly professional manner, it felt like victory. Then the professionalism seeped away […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cody Bellinger, Dale Murray, George Bamberger, Jerry Blevins, Justin Turner, Paul Sewald, Pedro Baez, Steven Matz, Terry Collins Mets. Braves. Eight innings. Tie game. Rain. Suspended. Sound familiar? That’s because, per the Beatles, this happened once before. These very same clubs got through eight innings of no-decision baseball and called it quits in Queens, deciding to pick up where they left off later thanks to wet weather. It was just the same as it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Braves, Dale Murray, Jeff Reardon, Jeremy Hefner, Joe Torre, Lee Mazzilli, Mettle the Mule, Pete Falcone, Richie Hebner, Suspended Games |
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