This win-one/lose-one pattern the Mets have settled into is, if nothing else, steadying. You can set your watch by it, assuming you still wear a watch. Even adjusting for rainouts, you know what’s coming. If it’s the second game on a Tuesday — and the first game on a Tuesday was a loss — then […]
 
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. |
 30 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  .500, Adam Wainwright, Jeurys Familia, Kolten Wong, Logan Verrett, Yadier Molina, Yoenis Cespedes Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we delineate our two primary states of being. The Monday before the Mets opened their 2015 season would have to go down in pencil as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Alex Torres, Blogging, Cory Mazzoni, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jerry Blevins, Losing, Matt den Dekker, Winning If a pitcher can be deemed “major league” after two starts, Matt Harvey would seem to be it. His lifetime mark has dropped to 1-1, which isn’t an accurate reflection of how well he pitched against the Giants Tuesday night and — whatever we think of the usefulness of pitchers’ won-lost records — probably doesn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Bill Denehy, Dick Selma, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Hairston, Tim Lincecum, Tom Seaver, Trades In lieu of weekend results to chew over, let us celebrate June 6, 1972, for on that Tuesday night at Shea, Tommie Agee knocked in Jim Beauchamp with the go-ahead run in the seventh inning, while Jim McAndrew and Tug McGraw combined on a five-hit, 3-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. In the short term, […] The Mets never say die, but sometimes they die anyway. They won’t say die for the next 45 games but I suspect what remains unspoken will occur more or less half the time no matter their best intentions. Of the choice between “more or less,” more would certainly be preferable. When a team that isn’t supposed […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, August, Hope, Hustle One of the formative stories for me as a Mets fan comes from 1969. As it’s told in George Vecsey’s marvelous Joy in Mudville, after the Mets reached 18-18 with a win over the Braves, reporters entered the clubhouse expecting “a wild champagne party,” but found the Mets drinking postgame beers and sodas as usual. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Jeff Wilpon, Rangers, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver |
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