The Mets lost their first exhibition game on Monday afternoon, but they won a ton of goodwill Monday morning by unveiling the patch they will wear on their uniforms throughout 2021 in memory of Tom Seaver. The homage presents the retired-number disc that hangs in the left field rafters at Citi Field in miniature: 41 […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, Banner Day Doubleheader, Craig Anderson, Jesse Orosco, Moment of Silence, Patches, Team History, Tom Seaver, Willard Hunter “Sure we’ll be better. How in hell could we be worse?” As Spring Training prognostications coming off losing seasons go, no Met ever nailed it any better than Roger Craig did in 1963. Following a grand total of 40 wins in 1962, a pledge to not make that inaugural year look good by comparison was all […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 2021 Mets, Happy Horsespit, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Michael Conforto, Roger Craig, Spring Training Welcome to the eighth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Bobby J. Jones, Bobby Jones, Glendon Rusch, Jay Payton, Joe McEwing, Jose Valentin, Lenny Harris, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Hampton, Pedro Feliciano, T#m Gl@v!ne, Tom Glavine, Turk Wendell Welcome to the seventh chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Heilman, Derek Bell, Francisco Rodriguez, John Maine, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Cameron, Oliver Perez, Orlando Hernandez, Todd Pratt, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Xavier Nady Welcome to the sixth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Braden Looper, Chris Woodward, Desi Relaford, Marlon Anderson, Melvin Mora, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Bordick, Mike Pelfrey, Moises Alou, Rey Ordonez, Rick White Welcome to the fifth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Darryl Hamilton, Dennis Cook, Duaner Sanchez, Julio Franco, Kevin Appier, Mets of the 2000s, Pedro Astacio, Roberto Hernandez, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton When the word “designated” enters the clubhouse conversation, ballplayers must get a little glum. If you’re told you’re a designated hitter, it means your glove is deemed superfluous. If you’re told you’re designated for assignment, it means the entirety of you is deemed superfluous. Until somebody declares different, the NL reverts to a DH-free zone […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Almora Jr., Ali Sanchez, Bill Withers, Brad Brach, Corey Oswalt, Designated for Assignment, Guillermo Heredia, Jonathan Villar, Kevin Pillar, Khalil Lee Welcome to the fourth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bruce Chen, Damion Easley, Darren Oliver, Gary Sheffield, Jason Phillips, Kaz Matsui, Lastings Milledge, Mets of the 2000s, Pat Mahomes, Ramon Castro, Vance Wilson Welcome to the third chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Bubba Trammell, Dae-Sung Koo, Jae Seo, Jeff Francoeur, Mets of the 2000s, Mike Jacobs, Richard Hidalgo, Ryan Church, Shawn Green, Victor Diaz The Friday bulletin that the Mets were signing Taijuan Walker brought me back to something Roger Angell wrote forty years ago. Anybody who puts me in mind of something Roger Angell wrote anytime is all right by me. This particular Angell observation came from the summer of 1981, during the baseball strike, and lives on in […] |
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