Twenty-six years ago this month, Dave Mlicki ensured he would be remembered forever fondly by Mets fans, and I doubt the reason requires specific explanation here. But on the off chance anybody is just tuning into Mets baseball, Dave started the very first regular-season intracity game for New York’s National League team (which was shaking […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1997 Mets, 1998 Mets, Coleman Crow, Dave Mlicki, Eduardo Escobar, Futility, Hideo Nomo, Landon Marceaux, Slight Appreciation, Trades, Vinny Nittoli DATE: June 21, 2023 We are in receipt of your patent application for your invention, “A New Way to Lose,” and are considering its originality and efficacy. It appears your blending of many previously invented ways to lose into one enormous way to lose, culminating […] Someday in the future, a precocious Amapola Chloe Lindor might look at her birthday, consider her father’s occupation, and ask, “Daddy, what did you to in the first game you started after I was born?” And her dad Francisco will be able to rightly tell her, “I hit a home run for you. What made […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Expectations, False Hope, Father's Day, Francisco Lindor, Karma, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Marv Throneberry, Nolan Arenado, Precedent, Ralph Kiner, Team History, Tim McCarver In April, it didn’t merit our attention. In April, the Mets were the Mets who were going to make a habit of it. In April, the Mets beat the Padres one game, the A’s the next; the A’s one game, the Dodgers the next; and the Dodgers one game, the Giants the next. In April, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Cardinals, Daniel Vogelbach, Dominic Leone, Fatalism, Francisco Lindor, Josh Walker, Successive Wins Versus Different Opponents, Tommy Pham, Tylor Megill In an unusually clever bit of scheduling, Major League Baseball has sent the St. Louis Cardinals to Queens this weekend to play the New York Mets, 40 years after a player the St. Louis Cardinals sent to Queens began to play for the New York Mets, albeit in Montreal. It was on June 15, 1983, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Bob Bailor, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Mike Torres, Mookie Wilson, National League Town, Scott Holman, Team History The starter can’t hold a four-run lead in the fourth inning. Two relievers can’t maintain a tie in the sixth inning, and a third reliever is barred from the mound because of sticky hands in the seventh inning. The center fielder can’t catch a ball lined essentially in front of his glove. The five-hole hitter strikes out with […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Accountability, Brandon Nimmo, Buck Showalter, Daniel Vogelbach, Dominic Leone, Drew Smith, Five-Tool Losing, Francisco Lindor, Jeff Brigham, John Curtiss, Josh Walker, Luis Guillorme, Mark Vientos, Matt Franco, Max Scherzer, Raging Passion, Simmering Passion, Starling Marte, Sticky Hands, Subway Series, The Matt Franco Game It’s a nice enough Sunday, the Mets game from Pittsburgh is on, I’m happy to be tuned in even if I’m only sort of paying attention to the Mets trailing the Pirates. I see Luis Guillorme called out on strikes because he was a second or so late in facing the pitcher with the count […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Attention, DVD Rental, Josh Walker, Losing Streak Aftermath, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Pirates, Pitch Clock, Tommy Pham The schedule works out well for the Mets this weekend, positioning them to take advantage of their place in the standings. They are three games out of the third Wild Card spot in the National League and they are in Pittsburgh for three games this weekend to take on the team that it turns out […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bullpen, Francisco Alvarez, Grand Slams in Losing Causes, Jim Mora, Justin Verlander, Tommy Hunter, Wild Card Tough walking around New York with all that smoke wafting down from Canadian wildfires. To take our minds off the ominous skies, let’s enjoy some Mets highlights from Wednesday night in Atlanta! All of New York can see how great its Mets are doing. No delay — the game starts on time! 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brooks Raley, Delusion, Dominic Leone, Francisco Alvarez, Haziness, Hit By Pitch, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Tommy Pham As noted often in this space, I consider listening to Gary Cohen talking Mets baseball a perk of being a Mets fan. Listening to him on Saturday, both while sitting in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room as he and his fellow inductees prepared for their big moment on the field, and then from the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Citi Field Home Runs, Gary Cohen, John Sullivan, Kodai Senga, LIRR, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Bruhert, Mike Bruhert’s Brother, Moment of Silence, Pete Alonso, Roger Craig, Solo Home Runs, Starling Marte, Tomas Nido, Tommy Pham, Willie Mays |
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