My primary rule for playing Sports Reference’s Immaculate Grid — my “self-imposed gamification,” as it’s been labeled — is I have to fill every box that can be filled by a Met with a Met. Does the Grid call for a Phillie who also played for the Pirates? Then I have to answer 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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2026 Postseason, Baseball Digest, Brewers, Dana Eveland, Doc Medich, Immaculate Grid, Jeromy Burnitz, Jesse Orosco, Jose Quintana, Ken Sanders, Mike Cameron, Mike Marshall, Skip Lockwood, Tommy Davis What’s worse than being a team that hasn’t been good for the longest time? In the moment, probably being a team that was pretty good not so long ago yet is now experiencing the falling out of its bottom. That situation described the Mets by this time of year in 1991 and 2002, and the […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buddy Carlyle, Dana Eveland, High Fidelity, Reds It’s dangerous to saddle wins or losses with caveats. Wins are good, losses are bad. You depart from this simple equation at your peril. The Mets put themselves in an eight-run hole tonight against the A’s, as Zack Wheeler had no feel whatsoever for his curveball and iffy location with everything. (He also claimed the A’s had […] |
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