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. |
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Wait just a little more. Now. Now you can have your Opening Day. I mean Opening Night. I mean Opening Night win. It’s yours. No strings. No hamstrings even, as far as we know. It arrived in our laps a little bruised, a little soggy and a little too late to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Buck Showalter, Designated Hitter, Eduardo Escobar, Gambling, Hit By Pitch, Jerome Hruska, Long Waits, Mark Canha, Mets Opening Day, Mets Third Basemen, Nationals, Opening Day, Opening Night, Replay Review, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Tylor Megill Sure, if you slow down video of somebody sticking his protectively guarded elbow in the general direction of a baseball passing otherwise untouched through the strike zone, it’s gonna look bad. So don’t do that. Instead, live in the moment of Michael Conforto’s right elbow instinctively jerking ever so slightly within the flight path of Anthony […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Bass, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Don Mattingly, Good Luck, Hit By Pitch, Home Opener, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Michael Conforto, Pat Jordan, Ron Kulpa, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver, Umpires 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. Guess who’s back When you are lacking it, few pitches are more alluring than boring old competence. Consider a few politicians who’ve seized on the idea of knowing what they were […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2014 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bugs Bunny, Ed Koch, Jacob deGrom, Jimmy Carter, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Dukakis, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, The Mary Tyler Moore Show Having grown up with Tom Seaver as a mortal lock to take the ball Opening Day after Opening Day, I always took it on faith that the other team was sending out to face us the closest thing they had to Tom Seaver…with the caveat that there’s only one Tom Seaver. Some opponents understood the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Mark Hendrickson, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Steve Carlton, Team History There is no such thing as a bad Opening Day win. More to the point, there’s no such thing as an Opening Day win that’s “worse” than any other. I guess that’s all self-evident, but there’s nothing run-of-the-mill about winning on Opening Day. There are no also-rans. Every Opening Day win is, at the moment […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Carter, Home Opener, Home Openers, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Team History, Tom Seaver The Mets have lost on Opening Day three times in this decade: 2011, 2014 and 2016. None of those defeats was pleasant in the moment, but with hindsight we should appreciate that they unfolded as they did. Having proof that Mets can lose on Opening Day keeps […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxieties, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jeurys Familia, Max Scherzer, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Wilson Ramos 1. Welcome aboard the first active roster of 2019 to the eight Mets who have never been Mets before: Robinson Cano, Edwin Diaz, Wilson Ramos, Keon Broxton, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Luis Avilan and Pete Alonso. We like each of you now because you’re Mets. Someday we’ll […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Danny Espinosa, Devin Mesoraco, Edwin Diaz, Gavin Cecchini, J.D. Davis, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Pete Alonso, Recidivist Mets, Rene Rivera, Robinson Cano, Ruben Tejada, T.J. Rivera, Third Base, Travis Taijeron, Uncle Floyd, Uniform Numbers, Wilson Ramos As the Long Island Rail Road was depositing me and several hundred like-minded individuals at what is still the Shea Stadium stop as far as I’m concerned late on Monday morning, I thought of all the metaphors suitable to occasions like Opening Day. A blank slate. A clean piece of paper. A coat of white […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, De Facto Designated Hitter, Eric O'Flaherty, Familiar Faces, Glenn Sherlock, Julio Teheran, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Six Feet Under, Wilmer Flores |
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