When last we were being clever about Metropolitan math, right around the beginning of this month, the Mets had just taken two out of three from the Dodgers, constituting their 30th series win of the season against 8 series losses and 3 series ties. Up ahead on the schedule were cushions, marshmallows and Milwaukee. Competition […]
 
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. |
 18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2022 Mets, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, September, Winning Series Those graphing skills you may have retained from geometry class will finally come in handy if you are yearning to illustrate the upward trajectory of the Mets’ single-season runs batted in record. 1962: 94 — Frank Thomas 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Graphing Skills, Pete Alonso, Runs Batted In, Team History, Team Records “Gary Apple back in our New York studio, following the Worst Game Ever, as the Mets lose, 10-4, to the Oakland Athletics, though mentioning just the score and the opponent doesn’t do it justice, does it, Todd Zeile?” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, Acres of Foul Territory, Angel Hernandez, Blinding Sun, Clubhouse Celebrations We’d Like to See, Darin Ruf, Gary Apple, Horribleness, Jacob deGrom, Karma, Oakland Coliseum, Presumptuous Thinking, Steve Gelbs, Todd Zeile, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra How is it possible Maury Wills stole only 22 bases at Shea Stadium? In watching a montage of the thievery that made him famous, it seemed every third clip was Maury swiping second at Shea. That probably owes to the Mets recording and preserving on film more of their game footage than those franchises outside media […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Joan Hodges, Maury Wills, Moment of Silence, Ted Schreiber Brandon Nimmo finally remembers how to steal bases and in activating his dormant skill aggravates a quad that merits exiting the game early, receiving imaging later and monitoring on a day-to-day basis. But I don’t want to talk about that. Jeff McNeil throws his body into every possible defensive play and has trouble getting up a couple […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 200 Wins, 2022 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Endurance, Francisco Lindor, Gratification, Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Tapani, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Taijuan Walker, Team History, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays Pete Alonso grabbed his lumber When Francisco Lindor That’s basically the story of how the Mets employed a Lizzie Borden-style attack in Milwaukee Tuesday night to hack their way to a 7-5 victory in the penultimate game of their series […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Brewers, Dread, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grand Slams, Penultimate Day, Pete Alonso, Streaks Glop is the word that occurred to me after sitting through the Mets and Pirates getting gloppy with one another at Citi Field Sunday afternoon. I don’t even know if I’ve ever used the word glop before, but it seems to fit. I had to look it up to make sure it really is a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Darin, Citi Field, Dan Fogelberg, Daniel Vogelbach, Dark Brandon, Hit By Pitch, Jacob deGrom, Joan Hodges, Moment of Silence, Pinch-Running, Pirates, Strikeouts, Sundays, Terrance Gore, Tote Bags A 7-1 win is, by nature, convincing. Thursday night at Citi Field, the Mets got the 7, the Pirates got the 1 — the Mets won by a lot, no doubt about it. Very convincing. Very convincing for Thursday night, at least. Every win the Mets have racked up since September 2, within the parameters of […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Convincing, Daniel Vogelbach, Francisco Lindor, John Stearns, Mark Vientos, Moment of Silence, Roberto Clemente Periodically this season the 2022 Mets have evoked statistical or emotional comparisons to some of their greatest years. On Tuesday night, the 2022 Mets welcomed our memories to 2018. You remember what would happen in 2018: Jacob deGrom would pitch very well and too much would go wrong otherwise to make anything of it. On […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1913 White Sox, 2018 Mets, Jacob deGrom, Jim Scott, Nancy Faust, Obstruction, Umpiring, Warner Wolf Angel Hernandez, a master of ruining endings of baseball games, was ready to roll early Sunday afternoon, out to ruin a baseball game that had barely begun. It took him all of five pitches to pull a Sparky Lyle by dropping trou and planting his bare bottom on the Mets-Marlins finale birthday cake. Brandon Nimmo, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Brandon Nimmo, Eduardo Escobar, Extra Bases, Mariners, Ray Knight, Sparky Lyle, Taijuan Walker, Tomas Nido, Winning Series |
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