Carlos Beltran is out for a projected twelve weeks — three or so months of not just not playing, but also not practicing — after surprise arthoscopic surgey on his right knee to address osteoarthritis that was causing him too much pain to continue offseason training. I say “surprise,” because it reportedly wasn’t on the […]
 
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. |
A winter’s night like this one? Twenty-five or so years ago? I would be dying for Mets news. I’d surely have checked my favorite blogs, except there were no blogs. I’d have watched MLB Network or SNY in hopes they had some information on their crawls, but there was neither an MLB nor an SNY. […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1980 Mets, Art Rust, Doug Flynn, Moment of Silence, Neil Allen, Radio, Steve Albert My 2010 plans weren’t inexorably altered when I learned the Dodgers signed Argenis Reyes to a minor league contract, but upon doing a bit of checking, I now realize we’ve lost someone whose penchant for instant winning was unprecedented. We’ve lost a Met who was able to say, longer than any other Met, that he […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Argenis Reyes, Mike Piazza, Team History, Tom Paciorek, Willie Mays, Winning Streaks Mark McGwire says he wishes he didn’t play in the Steroid Era. I have the same wish to a certain degree. From 1997 to 2001, McGwire hit 13 home runs against the Mets, batting .280 and getting on base in almost 39% of his plate appearances. Beating the Cardinals on any given day or night […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1996 Mets, 1998 Mets, 2001 Mets, Alibis, Barry Bonds, Ken Caminiti, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Steroids Longtime readers of this blog know of my quixotic pursuit of a decent picture of Al Schmelz, former Alaska Goldpanner and briefly a New York Met, along with many other momentary ballplayers in the bizarre 1967 campaign. There were 54 1967 Mets — 35 making their team debuts — and those 54 players managed 61 wins, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Al Schmelz, Alaska Goldpanners, Baseball Cards, Lost Mets, The Holy Books Yesterday Greg and I exchanged a brief flurry of emails. I found myself wanting to write something about the Montreal Expos. He had been gripped by the same need, and was already working on this. Not a surprise; stuff like that happens when you’re both baseball fanatics like-minded enough to share a blog, even when there’s […] From noon to midnight today, MLB Network will be showing Games Three, Five and Six of the 1986 National League Championship Series. That’s (spoiler alert!) the Mets beating the Astros on Lenny Dykstra’s walkoff ninth-inning home run; the Mets beating the Astros on Gary Carter’s walkoff twelfth-inning single; and the Mets beating the Astros on […] Andre Dawson’s election to the Hall of Fame conjures up a most frightening vision of a very scary slugger with a terribly lethal bat ready to destroy the next innocent baseball a New York Mets pitcher throws his way. I’ve read grumbles and snorts that Dawson’s career on-base percentage is too low to be worthy […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Dawson, Clint Everts, Craig Brazell, Endy Chavez, Expos, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Jason Bay, Jeff Kent, Jeff Keppinger, Mr. Met, Olympic Stadium, Omar Minaya, Rookie Hazing, Youppi I enjoyed this post yesterday by The Vertex’s Eric Bienenfeld about this year’s Hall of Fame ballot, which included a Met who almost was — Barry Larkin — as well as Roberto Alomar, a Met we could have done without. (Robby will probably get in next year, which would be fine with me — longtime […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Escobar, Prospects, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Steve Phillips, What Ifs, Yankee Hating One of your Mets trivia staples is, “Name the Mets players who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.” For the longest time, you had but four names to memorize if you wanted to answer in full: • Yogi Berra, inducted 1972 You understood each of these […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Duke Snider, Eddie Murray, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Nolan Ryan, Richie Ashburn, Rickey Henderson, Roberto Alomar, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra |
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