Some Met folklore a fan accepts without wondering about beyond what he’s already picked up. A bit of Metsiana that’s been with me for more than fifty years concerns some activity that preceded Game Four of the 1969 World Series. I picked up on it in 1971, a little late, but forgive me, I was […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, A.M. Gittlitz, Carlos Delgado, Dom Smith, Donn Clendenon, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Movements, Pamphlets, Protests, Team History, Tom Seaver, Vietnam, Yippies You might grab a nap. You might grab a shower. You might grab one of your top prospects and send him to the mound in front of the home folks to make his major league debut and watch him succeed. There are plenty of ways to feel refreshed. The Nolan McLean version proved most effective Saturday. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Denehy, Confidence, Dick Rusteck, First Starts, First Wins, Mennen Skin Bracer, Moment of Silence, Nolan McLean, Steven Matz, Team History It throbbed. It pulsated. It got down with the beat, not to mention the Bear. It lit up like crazy, so much so that they shot off every last firework within reach. Maybe this is what the Ritchie Family was referring to in 1976 when they paid homage to the best disco in town. Citi Field […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Home Run History, Home Runs, Milestones, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Team History They changed personnel. They changed locale. Their results didn’t much differ. The post-trade deadline New York Mets lost, 4-3, at Citi Field on Friday night to a San Francisco Giants team that looked familiar, and not just because they were who the Mets took on last weekend, the last time the Mets won a game. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Brian McRae, Carlos Beltran, Cedric Mullins, Center Fielders, Cleon Jones, Darryl Hamilton, Del Unser, Don Bosch, Don Hahn, Jay Payton, Jeff McNeil, Jim Hickman, Juan Lagares, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Cameron, Mookie Wilson, Richie Ashburn, Team History, Tommie Agee, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Mays Let us not move into this final week before the All-Star break without acknowledging we have three All-Stars. Congratulations to Pete Alonso, Edwin Diaz and, most of all, Francisco Lindor. We extend most-of-allness to Francisco because this is his first time he’ll go to an All-Star Game as a New York Met — as the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Longest Waits, Pete Alonso, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tug McGraw I hope SNY, having sat Jose Reyes in the studio co-anchor chair next to Gary Apple this weekend, never gives our old shortstop any “how to be on TV” lessons, because he’s wonderful as is. On the postgame show Friday night, following the Mets’ 9-1 loss in Pittsburgh, Apple asked Reyes about falling victim to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Blade Tidwell, Cliff Cook, Colin Poche, Craig Anderson, Galen Cisco, Jay Hook, Jim Marshall, Jose Reyes, Mets Alumni, Mitch Keller, Names, Pirates, Rick Herrscher, Scores, Team History, Vinegar Bend Mizell Maybe you remember The Game-Ending Unassisted Triple Play Game, or TGEUTPG. If a game earns its name from a particular event within, it stands a pretty good chance of maintaining notoriety, with “notoriety” in this case being used correctly. TGEUTPG concluded with Luis Castillo on second base, Daniel Murphy on first, and Jeff Francoeur batting in […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, David Wright, Eras, Eric Bruntlett, Four-Inning Saves, Gary Rajsich, Inflection Points, Jeff Francoeur, Jeff McNeil, Long-Term Progress, Nadirs, Paul Blackburn, Pete Alonso, Plateaus, Pummelings, Rockies, Strides, Team History, Unassisted Triple Play, Under .500, West Wing The Unicorn Score Monitor went on high alert in the middle of the eighth inning Monday afternoon after the Mets increased their lead over the Nationals to 15-0. That score rang a bell for not having rung a bell in my head, a repository that also serves as the unofficial institutional memory of New York […] Monday was Jesse Orosco’s birthday, so for a moment I thought the Mets were honoring him by nearly but not quite blowing a formidable ninth-inning lead. In the mind’s eye, Jesse flirted with disaster a lot in his not quite best years. In his best years, he was infallible in the mind’s eye. The mind’s […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Almost Blown Saves, Baseball, Closers, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Inherited Runners, Jesse Orosco, Jesse Winker, John Buck, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey, Max Kranick, Phillies, R.A. Dickey, Reed Garrett, Saves, Team History, Tylor Megill No doubt as the Mets’ traveling party gathered for its team Seder on Saturday evening in Sacramento, one of the elder statesmen at the table — my guess is bench coach John Gibbons — noted that the 3-1 score by which the club lost in the afternoon was the first 3-1 loss the Mets had […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, A's, Athletics, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Baty, Carlos Mendoza, Catfish Hunter, David Peterson, Faith, George Stone, Jeremy Hefner, John Gibbons, Jose Siri, Mark Vientos, Passover, Sacramento, Starling Marte, Team History, Team Seders, Tom Seaver, Unleavened Offense, West Sacramento, Yogi Berra |
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