In the Mets’ first four seasons, the club twice lost home games by a score of 13-6. The first of them, on May 30, 1962, marked the coming out party for a chant you might hear enthusiastically when the Mets are coming on strong or ironically when the Mets pausing from going down meekly: “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. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  13-6 losses, 1982 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Dick Young, Expressing Oneself, Joey Lucchesi, Middle Relief, Party Deck, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Strawberry Sunday, Team History To paraphrase the late, great Roger Angell (for neither the first nor last time in this space), specifically what he said about his presence in Boston during Game Six of the 1986 NLCS while the Mets were cheating death in Houston and baseball had “burst its seams and was wild in the streets” in New […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Roger Angell, Sleep, Thomas Szapucki Roger Angell died yesterday at 101. Greg offered his tribute here last night, shortly before the Mets and the Rockies spent the night staring out the window waiting for it to at least resemble spring. There will be many other such tributes, as there should be. To that avalanche of grief let me add my own […] “The Mets — ah, the Mets! Superlatives do not quite fit them, but now, just as in 1969, the name alone is enough to bring back that rare inner smile that so many of us wore as summer ended.” Summer, in a sense, has ended with the news that Roger Angell, who wrote the above sentence […] In Lost in America, after Julie Hagerty as Linda Howard gambles away the family nest egg at the Desert Inn, her husband David — Albert Brooks — tries to convince the casino manager, played by Garry Marshall, that the house should really give them their money back. We’re not really Las Vegas people is the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Brooks, Fall’s Arrival, Garry Marshall, Roger Angell, Summer’s Departure The Friday bulletin that the Mets were signing Taijuan Walker brought me back to something Roger Angell wrote forty years ago. Anybody who puts me in mind of something Roger Angell wrote anytime is all right by me. This particular Angell observation came from the summer of 1981, during the baseball strike, and lives on in […] 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 The Mets followed two unlikely good nights in which they got lousy, abbreviated starts but hit and relieved their way out of the mess with a thoroughly bad one: no hitting, no relief, and no help on the scoreboard. None of which is ever good, all of which is really bad when the season’s down […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Franklyn Kilome, Losses, Roger Angell, Steven Matz, Todd Frazier It was a rally or as close to a rally as the 2018 Mets could have conjured in the first week of June 2018. Wednesday afternoon against the Orioles, Todd Frazier singled to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Recently returned from a hamstring injury and […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Favorite Players, Jose Reyes, Reality, Roger Angell, Willie Mays World War II ended in 1945, yet there were handfuls of particularly stubborn Japanese soldiers in far-flung outposts who hadn’t gotten word or refused to believe what they were told about their nation’s surrender. One, Hiroo Onoda, was found to still be fighting a war that was no longer in progress as late as 1974. And […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Braves, Comebacks, Daniel Murphy, Japanese Soldiers Who Didn't Surrender, Roger Angell |
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