Repeatedly as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Mets, I get slightly irked. Not by the celebration or the feat celebrated but by a tiny detail that is continually reported inaccurately. Those Mets, it keep getting said, fell ten games behind the Cubs in the National League East in mid-August before turning their […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2017 Mets, Edwin Diaz, Half-Games, Jacob deGrom, Jay Bruce, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeurys Familia, Ken Johnson, Replay Review, Rocky III, Spiritually Eliminated, Statistical Obsessions Newsradio 88, flagship station for New York Mets baseball, must be pleased the New York Mets decided to make the 8th inning their flagship inning Sunday night. “Hits and runs on the eighth.” “You give us the eighth inning, we won’t give up a lead.” The latter evokes the other news station in New York, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Basketball, Edwin Diaz, Game Shows, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Laura Branigan, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Sunday Night Baseball, The Sopranos, WCBS, Wilmer Font Up they haven’t given, though up they haven’t gotten. After every Mets loss, of which there’ve been myriad, I hear the manager and selected players tell postgame questioners, “Nobody here has given up.” That’s admirable on the surface, implicit in the job description, ineffectual in the final score. The Mets don’t give up. They come to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Braves, Grim Forecast, Jacob deGrom, Losing Streaks, Not Giving Up, Pete Alonso, Relief Pitching, Robert Gsellman, Trying Team The New York Mets have issued the following statement. The Mets sincerely regret the incident that took place with one of our beat writers following today’s game in the clubhouse. The Mets also sincerely regret the incident that took place with one of our relievers during today’s game on the mound. The Mets further regret the incident that […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Mickey Callaway, Pete Alonso, public relations, Regrets, Reversion to Form, Seth Lugo, Statements Before Tuesday’s game the Mets diverted a river into the Augean stables of their bullpen, sluicing Jeurys Familia onto the IL with a vaguely defined shoulder injury and washing Drew Gagnon out to Syracuse, in favor of Daniel Zamora and newcomer Stephen Nogosek. Mickey Callaway also called a team meeting, after which his players said all […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Broadcasters, Daniel Zamora, Gary Cohen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Stephen Nogosek, Team Meetings A leading candidate to be rerun into perpetuity by SNY during future rain delays as part of Abysmal Finishes: 2019 has received a reprieve, having been suspended in damp midair by the powers that be wanting to get to bed at a decent hour. Thus, Edwin Diaz did not blow Thursday night’s game against the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abysmal Finishes Held in Abeyance, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Suspended Games, Team History On Friday night the Mets lost, and they lost in a very 2019 Mets way: good start that felt like it should have been better, not enough offense, poor relief, a silly sideshow. The GSTFLISHBB game from Jacob deGrom, which feels like you could put an “of course” on it for ironic effect, except you could […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Antonio Senzatela, Drew Gagnon, Jacob deGrom, PItching Most of the Mets game I watched Saturday night was pretty good. Jacob deGrom was outstanding, looking more like Jake from 2018 than he has since he was making beautiful music in Miami in early April. Todd Frazier continued to bring the power despite being written off in multiple quarters as an irredeemable […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Chicklo, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Mountain Time Zone, Sleep, Tomas Nido, Waking Up to Bad Scores We may not yet know how to most accurately describe the 2019 Mets as they shift between dismal and decent, but after several hours spent witnessing some gruesome proceedings from Dodger Stadium, we are comfortable confirming the Dodgers are still quite good. They’ve got this long haul thing down […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Clayton Kershaw, Cody Bellinger, Dodgers, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Out at Home, Out at Third, Tomas Nido, Tyler Bashlor Before all the heroics — which we will revel in a couple of paragraphs down, I promise you — the Mets and Nationals played a rather odd baseball game. Max Scherzer pitched six innings, the last of them on fumes, throwing 109 pitches and giving up no runs. Jacob deGrom pitched six innings, the last of them […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Eaton, Adeiny Hechavarria, Bad Relief Pitching, Jacob deGrom, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Met Debuts, Nationals, Rajai Davis, Ryan Blakney, Sean Doolittle, Umpires |
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