We have reached the third installment of MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT. I can’t swear it’s the middle installment, but below you’ll find the middle portion of the list: the seasons just before the median (Nos. 33-29); the median season (No. 28); and the seasons just beyond the median (Nos. […]
 
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 |  1972 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1978 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1981 Strike, 1983 Mets, 1987 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2014 Mets, A Clockwork Orange, Brian Jordan, Change, Daily News, Jack Lang, John Mellencamp, M. Donald Grant, Mardie Cornejo, Mets Yearbook, Mike Piazza, Muse, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Shea Stadium, Sinus Headaches, Streaks, The Years After, Tom Seaver, Unresolved Mother Issues On May 9, 1972, it rained in New York, which, then as now, is an unfortunate occurrence when a baseball game is scheduled in the Metropolitan Area. The Mets were to play the Dodgers at Shea Stadium that Tuesday night, meaning that baseball game would have to be made up. The good news was the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Joey Lucchesi, M. Donald Grant, Max Scherzer, Michael Perez, Nationals Shenanigans, Rain, Team History, Willie Mays Through seven innings Friday night, the Mets-Marlins contest could have gone either way. It’s not unusual that the identities of a given game’s winner and loser are yet to be determined with two regulation innings to go, but this brand of uncertainty gnawed a bit deeper. Lose this game to the Marlins, and it’s a […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Afterschool Special, Billy Crystal, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Edwin Diaz, Leon Russell, Marlins, Old Wives’ Tales, Rusty Staub, Sandy Alcantara, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Trevor Williams, Tyler Naquin I was five months old when the Mets completed their ascent from doormats to destiny’s darlings, and by the time I started collecting cards in 1976, the miracle makers had been largely dispersed. Just six were still Mets. The rest had become Pirates and Astros and Phillies and other questionable things, or started doing whatever […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Gary Gentry, Injuries, Pitchers Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When Willie Mays returned to New York, many saw it — may God forgive them — as a trade to be debated on the merits of statistics. Could the forty-one-year-old center […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, All-Stars, Baseball Cards, New York Giants, Simply the Best, Willie Mays They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos The first-place Mets, you might say, were lucky Tuesday night. True, they lost for the fifth time in seven games — 6-2 to the Braves — but they won a valuable square foot of real estate in their march toward the National League East title when the Nationals lost to the Orioles. Their magic number […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Mets Managers, Moment of Silence, Yogi Berra And on the eleventh day, they did precisely what they’d been doing on the ten days that preceded it. They won. It’s a daily exercise with these Mets, now historically so. In front of your frozen but grateful blogger, his shivering photographer pal and scattered others who — like Sharon Chapman and me — value excellence over […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1972 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 2015 Mets, Team History, Winning Streaks On Saturday, the Mets will distribute 25,000 bobbleheaded likenesses of Daniel Joseph Staub, which is not the same thing as actual likenesses — the resemblance is primarily hair-deep — and may not be enough for the club to satisfy the honoree’s stated wish that “everyone comes out and gets one.” Nobody likes to imagine Customers […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bobbleheads, Bobby Valentine, Bones Ely, Casey Stengel, Charlie Hough, Connie Mack, Davey Johnson, Dazzy Vance, Dick Tidrow, George Foster, Jim Leyland, Larry Bowa, Longevity, Mike Torrez, Nellie Fox, Nolan Ryan, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tom Paciorek, Tug McGraw Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 121st game in any Mets season, the “best” 122nd game in any Mets season, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2006 Mets, Dave Marshall, David Wright, Fiftieth Anniversary, Lastings Milledge, Team History, The Happiest Recap |
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