With so many roster transactions involving current Mets — including three more planned tonight to facilitate the deinjuring of a trio of heretofore injured Mets — we can be forgiven for not having taken note of every up and down involving former Mets. Yet we can’t let this AL Central subtraction from April 28 get […]
 
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. |
 15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Darren O'Day, Joe Smith, Justin Turner, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Ruben Tejada, Shea Stadium, Team History The Mets’ run of injuries has been Biblical — witness this recent post, from Fangraphs, noting that Mets on the injured list account for nearly 20 WAR, going by preseason predictions. That’s by far the most WAR lost in the majors and should have been a recipe for disaster. And it still might be! But not […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Brandon Drury, Braves, Cameron Maybin, Charley Smith, Defense, Dom Smith, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, James McCann, Jonathan Villar, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Taijuan Walker Dear Student: The following is your remote learning unit for May 27, 2021. Please complete each assigned exercise, derived from this afternoon’s lesson plan, and submit your answers through your personalized educational portal, using code TWOFORTHURSDAY. Please stay safe, New York Metropolitan Teaching Technologies — 1) A standard scheduled baseball game measures nine innings. How many innings would a doubleheader […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Cameron Maybin, Churves, Connor Joe, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Edwin Diaz, Jeurys Familia, Jose Peraza, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, Robert Gsellman, Rockies I went off to California for a week and while I was out there the Mets underwent some renovations, to say the very least. Deep breath. I’d barely registered the arrival of Jake Hager before he got his first big-league hit and then was subtracted from the roster. The minorly heralded Khalil Lee arrived, swung and missed […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Billy McKinney, Catchers, Edwin Diaz, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Replay Review, Ryan McMahon, The Holy Books, Tomas Nido, Yennsy Diaz It’s presumptuous to project thoughts onto the deceased. The deceased can’t speak for themselves, yet we the living haughtily decide what they might be thinking if they were still with us. I do anyway. For a decade now, I’ve done it with Dana Brand. Though it’s presumptuous as hell, I do it because I miss Dana. […] Six hits. Five for singles. Only two — the lone double, followed by one of the singles — were grouped in helpful proximity to one another, generating an entire run to cut the scoreboard deficit from gaping to yawning, but either way insurmountable most of the afternoon. Sit indoors on a sunny Sunday in New York […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | C Team, Johneshwy Fargas, Jordan Yamamoto, Robert Gsellman, Wilfredo Tovar, Yennsy Diaz Did ya see how the bottom of the eighth between the Mets and Marlins ended on Saturday? Dom Smith made a hellacious dive with two out to corral a grounder from Miguel Rojas, rolled over on his rear end and rid himself of the ball before retrieving his bearings, guiding it to Miguel Castro at […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dan Seals, Defense, Dom Smith, Joey Lucchesi, John Ford Coley, Johneshwy Fargas, Sean Reid-Foley, Tommie Agee Never mind the cliché about a team beset by injuries resembling a M*A*S*H unit. The Mets of the moment — with 16 players on their injured list — are closer to a M*A*S*H episode. A specific M*A*S*H episode in my mind, the one titled “Carry On, Hawkeye,” from the second season of the series. In […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Dae-Sung Koo, Ed Sudol, Extra Innings, Francisco Lindor, Injuries, Jake Hager, Johneshwy Fargas, Khalil Lee, M*A*S*H, Marcus Stroman, Marlins, Night Clubs, Recidivist Mets, Sugar Kings, The Pinch-Running Files, Umpiring, Wilfredo Tovar “Please cover your left eye and tell me what you saw Wednesday night from Atlanta.” “David Peterson carrying a no-hitter into the fifth inning, showing the promise that gets us so excited about him … defensive prodigy Khalil Lee making his second sensational catch in two nights … Cameron Maybin using his wheels and wits to […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cameron Maybin, David Peterson, Expectations, Frustration, Jacob Barnes, James McCann, Khalil Lee, Ronald Acuna Jr., Tomas Nido (Presented with eternal affection for the timeless creation of Ruth Roberts and Bill Katz) Meet this Met There’s Tommy Hunter Johneshwy Fargas Toe! Suddenly’s a power bat 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Katz, Bullpen Games, Cameron Maybin, Johneshwy Fargas, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee, Roster Turnover, Ruth Roberts, Tomas Nido, Tommy Hunter, Trevor Hildenberger, Wilfredo Tovar |
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