Jason and Greg on the warning track for GKR Day, our final meeting at Citi Field in 2009. Here’s to shaking hands there again with a happier place in the standings — and to keeping the Mets fires burning in these bloggy precincts this winter. Photo courtesy of the incomparable David Whitham.

Those clouds are pushing away from Citi Field, not toward it. They have to be. They just have to be.

Meant to get this picture all year, got it on Closing Day. The Mets, as we know, work hard on erasing their history, but somehow this MTA sign survives at the stop formerly known as Willets Point — Shea Stadium.

There was no stopping Ray Knight from scoring the winning run in Game Six, but the 1986 World Series MVP had no compunction against doing a stop ‘n’ chat with FAFIF reader Jim LaFemina, who visited Nationals Park Wednesday wearing his mint Faith and Fear t-shirt. Jim reports Ray, despite being in the broadcast employ […]

Today, September 28, 2009, is the first anniversary of the last game ever played at Shea Stadium. Consider this David G. Whitham photo and this post a yahrzeit candle lit in its memory.

May the places we love live on. May we always find new places to love as well.

The days grow shorter, the Flashbacks grow longer. You already know the Mets won the 1999 National League Wild Card if you read this or lived through it. I’d maintain the suspense over the outcome of the NLDS that followed, but they give it away when you walk in the Bullpen Plaza.

All of which is to […]

This photo, courtesy of Kevin from Flushing, is now my wallpaper. If I can work it out with the DMV, it will be become my driver’s license photo. Chipper is and will always be No. 1…with both birds flying.

The autumnal equinox is bearing down, which is never appreciated, but let’s hear it for the good things that come while seasons are winding down: we adopted Avery (left) on September 16, 2005 and Hozzie on September 24, 2002. Easily the two best September callups since Hubie Brooks and Mookie Wilson.