After a brief flurry of optimism or at least acceptance, garbage time is officially back. Before the season, a late August Mets-Angels tilt looked like one to circle on the calendar. Who wouldn’t exult in the prospect of watching Pete Alonso and Kodai Senga go up against Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout on two playoff-bound […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Leiter, Angels, Casey Stengel, Danny Mendick, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, David Wright, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Gil Hodges, Howard Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Orosco, Joey Cora, John Franco, Keith Hernandez, Kelvin Torve, Kodai Senga, Last Place, Marlon Anderson, Mike Piazza, Randal Grichuk, Retired Numbers, Shohei Ohtani, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays After the Major League Baseball lockout ends; after Spring Training goes through its motions; once the regular season begins; and whenever Eduardo Escobar takes the field at third base in 2022, he’ll achieve a Met milestone instantly recognizable to viewers of An Amazin’ Era, the videocassette that commemorated the franchise’s 25th-anniversary. Pending unanticipated roster moves […] David Ortiz is in the Hall of Fame, which is great for David Ortiz and, I believe, splendid for baseball. Big Papi was a big star with big numbers who came through in big situations. That’s a Hall of Famer in my mind. Everybody else on the just-revealed Baseball Writers Association of America ballot isn’t […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 60th Anniversary, Casey Stengel, Frank Thomas, Jay Hook, Joe Christopher, Mets Hall of Fame, Old Timers Day, Roger Craig, Ron Hunt, Team History, Vestibule The following scene occurred at Caledonian Hospital in Flatbush on this very afternoon in 1962. Or so I’ve decided 59 years after the fact. I know ya might be in th’ mood t’ wail yer lungs out, young feller, what seein’ ya just got yerself born, but no need t’ be spooked. It’s just yer ol’ […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Birthdays, Casey Stengel, Ed Kranepool, Larry Burright, New Year's Eve, Possibly Apocryphal Origin Stories, Ron Hunt, Tim Harkness Buck Showalter and the other, now irrelevant candidates for the Mets’ managerial opening were reportedly summoned to Steve Cohen’s home in Connecticut for their respective face-to-face interviews. They probably didn’t travel in quite the style that Casey Stengel did when he was accepting the keys to the Polo Grounds dugout sixty years ago. “We arrived […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Buck Showalter, Casey Stengel, Experience, Mets Managers It isn’t a beautiful night at normally beautiful Wrigley Field, as the Mets have fallen further behind the Chicago Cubs, and now manager Luis Rojas comes out of the dugout to have a word with home plate umpire Bruce Dreckman, apparently ready to make a change to his lineup. After conferring with Dreckman, Luis walks […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Murphy, Casey Stengel, Cold, David Peterson, Errors, Francisco Lindor, Gil Hodges, J.D. Davis, Luis Guillorme, Luis Rojas, Pete Alonso, Position Players Pitching, Radio, Redeeming Features, Team History, Wrigley Field 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. “People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.” I became a Mets fan in 1976, when the team had […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Fans, Gil Hodges, Mayo Smith, Quotability, Rafael Ramirez, Ron Swoboda 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. Well you’re a real tough cookie In 1962, the Mets promised their fans that Shea Stadium would be ready for 1963. It wasn’t. So instead, they invited them […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Jay Horwitz, Mets Alumni, Polo Grounds, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium 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 I first encountered Rod Kanehl, it was as an example of what not to be. The story is famous in Miracle Mets lore: After the Mets ascended to the lofty heights of .500 in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Casey Stengel, Rod Kanehl, Tom Seaver On a night when the Daily News didn’t send a reporter to Citi Field to cover the Mets, the Mets didn’t necessarily make news worth covering. That is if you subscribe to the theory that mundane “dog bites man” and “Mets bite in general” events don’t much amount to news.
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