Sometimes you stumble into something that catapults you toward something else. Shortly before the Mets, amid Sean Manaea’s off afternoon and a surfeit of Bobby Witt, stumbled Saturday into their 11-7 loss to the Royals, I stumbled into a nugget of information totally new to me. Sixty years ago, on April 13, 1964, the Mets […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, Blockbusters, Dana Brand, Doc Gooden, Dwight Gooden, Hofstra, Jerry Koosman, Retired Numbers, Tom Seaver The season began with plenty of warning, yet I found myself scrambling in the hours before and after Opening Day to update all the things I keep track of once the season is underway. The files I maintain for my and occasionally your amusement/edification looked like the aftermath of a party nobody had bother cleaning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Braves, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Jose Quintana, Keeping Track, Luis Guillorme, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor By some stroke of coincidence, the Mets have visited Atlanta on the 30th, 40th and 50th anniversaries of Hank Aaron’s 715th career home run, which is swell, because what decent baseball fan doesn’t adore and revere the legacy of Hank Aaron? The Mets have to play the Braves at some point of every season. Might […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2004 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Cole Sulser, Comebacks, Dan Wheeler, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Hank Aaron, Harry Parker, Jake Diekman, John Milner, Jorge Lopez, Julio Teheran, Reed Garrett, Scott Erickson, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays “I was very fortunate to win three-hundred and eleven games, and not many people in the wonderful history of baseball were able to go past three-hundred,” said the man in the suit at the podium. “And you wonder why it happened? All you have to do is look at the individuals that were sixty feet, […] As soon as you understand that a manager is going to try to “stay away” from using the relievers he relies on most, you also understand you’re going to need either a spit-ton of runs from your lineup or a comparable amount of innings from your starting pitcher. By the middle of the sixth inning […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jake Diekman, Luis Severino, Moment of Silence, Pat Zachry, Reds, Relief Pitching, Unease, Yohan Ramirez It had rained for forty consecutive nights. The Mets had lost their previous fifty games. They had been no-hit for sixty innings in a row. Their most storied slugger was so desperate to effect change that he swung at a pitch seventy feet below sea level. With one crack of the bat, the earth shook (eventually) […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Houser, Carlos Mendoza, Desperation, Doubleheaders, Earthquakes, Endearng Nicknames, First Wins, Jose Butto, Michael Tonkin, Pete Alonso, Reed Garrett, Tigers, Tyrone Taylor Three games into the new season, and I already don’t want to dwell on the most recent baseball game the Mets played and lost. For the record, Tylor Megill labored for four innings Sunday and left with tenderness in his shoulder, slating him for an MRI. Carlos Mendoza served a suspension for Yohan Ramirez throwing […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Dance Metsmerized, Get Metsmerized, Mets Marketing, Queens Crew, Team Songs, Utter Foolishness 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 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Ojeda, Brewers, Buttleyness, Drew Smith, Freddy Peralta, Jeff McNeil, Jorge Lopez, Jose Quintana, Ken MacKenzie, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Omens, One-Hitters, Rhys Hoskins, Starling Marte, Team History “What a break,” the player said. “Wow! This is great. I can hardly believe it. Imagine going to a club like the Phillies. I feel like I’ve been born again.” The player was Buddy Harrelson, on the occasion of his trade from the Mets in Spring Training 1978. The Mets were founded in 1962 and were […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2024 Mets, Adrian Gonzalez, Adrian Houser, Bud Harrelson, Buddy Harrelson, Dom Smith, Harrison Bader, Home, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Luis Severino, Mark Vientos, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Michael Tonkin, Opening Day, Patches, Sean Manaea, Tyrone Taylor, Yohan Ramirez, Zack Short Today we reach that year in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown when I have to admit I went to sleep sometime in early April and woke up sometime in early November. That must be what happened, because I don’t seem to have any memories of anything that could […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dreams, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Maz, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes |
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