I like to say that all you can reasonably ask for from your team year after year is that they give you hope. To me, that has always implied that you can hope your team will contend in earnest for a postseason berth, and to do that, your team has to win more games than […]
 
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. |
 41 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Losing Record, Team History, Winning Into every life, a little Marlin must fall. And I don’t mean former teal bedbug Cody Ross. The baseball season, even a successful baseball season, isn’t fully textured until the New York Mets lose an aggravating game to the Florida/San Juan/Miami Marlins in walkoff, gnashoff, fumeoff, bleepoff fashion. After 25 such endings in the past 20 […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bullpen, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, John McGraw, Marlins, Pitchers Hitting, Rosters, Team History, Tsuris, Working Girl Some won-lost records just jump out at me. For example, the Mets losing Sunday and falling to 20-23 sparked my recognition that the Mets hit that very same mark 24 years earlier. In 1990, losing and falling to 20-23 presented a platform for firing the most successful manager in franchise history. After guiding the Mets to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1965 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2007 Mets, 2008 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Davey Johnson, Milestones, Records, Team History Well, Yankees fans hate the Red Sox … if the Cardinals win again at least Carlos Beltran gets a ring … Hmm. You know what? Never mind that for now. It’s time to welcome the latest budding immortals and dudes you’ve already forgotten who make up the THB Class of 2013. Background: I have a trio of […] The Mets on Saturday lost their third dull game in a row by the same dull score to the same dull opponent. With a win Sunday, they can forge the same dull 74-88 record they compiled last year. They still have a chance to finish in third place, which would be a step up from […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Cult of Mediocrity, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins The Mets won a truncated game in Philadelphia Saturday night. Though earlier this year we were subject to a plethora of unnecessarily lengthened contests, this version of baseball aberration — six innings and change before the rain made itself unstoppably intrusive — seems more fitting for the 2013 Mets, given that almost every 2013 Met […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, David Wright, Mets Third Basemen, Team History Prior to the All-Star Game, I heard and read that Citi Field was about to have its first “signature moment,” which I thought was a pretty misguided assessment, considering HELLO! NO-HITTER! on June 1, 2012. I’d also throw in a “hey” to that 20th win at the end of last year. I get what those takes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Citi Field, Extra Innings, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Rupert Holmes, Signature Moments You don’t gotta believe or anything crazy like that, but you gotta take stock of what’s been going on in the National League East since May 26: New York 15-14 If that’s not 1973 in miniature, I don’t know what is. We bemoan the lack of a 40th anniversary tribute from the organization that […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2013 Mets, Faith, Jeremy Hefner, Josh Satin, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets Third Basemen, Zach Lutz Bruce Springsteen once advised you can’t start a fire without a spark. Monday night and Tuesday morning, there was no spark in Marlins Park. And for several days before, there was no yield at Citi Field. The Mets can’t get anything going in any sense anywhere. They are stuck in place…fourth place, to be precise, […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bruce Springsteen, Decay, Do Something, Extra Innings, Mad Men, Marlins, Matt Harvey, May, Terry Collins, Thin Patience We may lose and we may win And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen. If you told me I was going to three games in a four-day span in the middle of the season, I’d say, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Citi Field, Collin Cowgill, Dillon Gee, Goodfellas, John Buck, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Opening Week, Scott Rice, Soup |
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