Max Scherzer pitched seven innings of shutout ball on his 38th birthday. Of course he did. He was born to put up zeroes on the night of July 27 in the borough of Queens before a sold-out house in attendance to cheer on a first-place team. It was foretold when he first drew breath and […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1984 Mets, 2022 Mets, Destiny, Dwight Gooden, Happy Parallels, Keith Hernandez, Max Scherzer, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep, Wally Backman The temperature was in the 80s. The energy was out of the ’80s. I needed neither a weatherman nor a meter reader to know which way the wind was blowing or how much the juice was flowing. It didn’t take a meteorology degree to discern it was a warm summer day. You didn’t have to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Ceremony, Keith Hernandez, Mets Fans, Retired Numbers 1. The Mets ran this ticket special in the 1980s that was incredibly successful. For the price of one admission, you could see the most fearsome competitor in the game, a peerless clutch hitter and first base play that was as revolutionary as it was nonpareil. They were also willing into throw in for that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Keith Hernandez, Ralph Kiner, Retired Numbers, Seinfeld, Team History On August 8, 1963, the day after Jim Hickman hit for the first cycle in Mets history, the Mets won again, 3-2, with first baseman Duke Carmel (one of two Dukes to play for the Mets that day at the Polo Grounds) hitting the deciding home run in the eighth inning. Between Carmel’s big blow […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aftermath, Alex Ochoa, Cycles, Eduardo Escobar, Eric Valent, Jim Hickman, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Keith Hernandez, Kevin McReynolds, Mike Phillips, Pete Alonso, Scott Hairston, Starling Marte, Team History, Tommie Agee Keith Hernandez filled the hole between the two and four spots in the batting order for seven Met seasons. He filled holes between himself and either the first base line or the second baseman on balls that seemed destined for the outfield. He filled the hole in the knowledge base of one promising young pitcher […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Keith Hernandez, Retired Numbers, Team History The Mets were supposed to be off Monday night, but instead they wound up in D.C., playing another one of their COVID makeup dates. Jerad Eickhoff was ambushed by the crazed baseball-destroying cyborg formerly known as Kyle Schwarber and the Mets continued to espouse their philosophy of nonviolence at the plate and before you knew […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Francisco Lindor, Futile Comebacks, Gary Cohen, Gary DiSarcina, Jerad Eickhoff, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Pillar, Kyle Schwarber, Miguel Castro, Ron Darling, Ryan Zimmerman, Shifts, SNY, Stupid Nationals, Travis Blankenhorn Was Friday night’s late-night tilt against the Padres A) deeply weird; B) snoozy with a side of annoying; C) frustrating; or D) all of the above? I’m going with D. For a while it looked like Blake Snell would achieve one of the less impressive no-hitters in baseball history – he gave up a lot of solid […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Brandon Drury, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, Frustration, Gary Cohen, Howie Rose, James McCann, Joey Lucchesi, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Late Night West Coast Games, Madison Bumgarner, Manny Machado, Padres, Quinn Wolcott, Ron Darling, SNY, Umpires, Wayne Randazzo, Yu Darvish The last time I saw Citi Field, Dom Smith was bringing down the curtain on the 2019 season, connecting for a walkoff homer in Game 162. That happy memory sustained me through the winter, but nothing could sustain me once our lives ground to a halt in a surreal spring. I saw Citi Field in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Birthdays, Citi Field, Francisco Lindor, Jeurys Familia, Joey Lucchesi, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Pillar, Pandemics That’s the way Keith says it, a remnant of his California roots that’s one of his more endearing quirks, and a label worth plastering all over Saturday’s matinee against the Marlins. Jacob deGrom needed just nine pitches — all strikes — to take down the Marlins in the top of the first, blitzed through the first […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frustration, Jacob deGrom, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Keith Hernandez, Marlins, Michael Conforto, Trevor Rogers 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. In the mid-80s, while I was off at boarding school, I got a letter from my mother. That wasn’t odd, but what was inside was. My mother had sent me a folded-up article […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Gary Carter, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Noah Syndergaard, Roger Angell, Ron Darling, Smoky Joe Wood, SNY, Tim Burke |
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