Everybody misplaces their Mojo from time to time. In the summer of 1999, Austin Powers had to chase his Mojo all the way back to 1969. A couple of months later, the 1999 Mets’ Mojo experienced dizzying spikes and frightening declines despite Jim Morrison’s advice that it should keep on risin’. For a night-and-a-half in […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1999 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Austin Powers, Bloated Pitching Staffs, Brewers, Chasen Shreve, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Hunter Renfroe, J.D. Davis, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Mark Canha, Mojo, Nick Plummer, Pete Alonso, Pinch-Running, Robin Ventura, Seth Lugo, Short Benches, Starling Marte, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Tylor Megill “Grind you till you break” is Chris Bassitt‘s phrase, first uttered after his debut in blue and orange and the Mets having come back from being knocked down by sundry Nationals to win by doing terrible things to pitchers, spoken of earlier on this trip, and of course immortalized as part of that equal parts […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blake Snell, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Bassitt, Cycles, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, J.D. Davis, Luke Voit, Mark Canha, Padres I was in L.A. Thursday morning through Monday night attending Star Wars Celebration (and probably getting COVID, but we’ll see), and felt the usual guilt about abandoning my post. Though I didn’t, really — the Mets kept sneaking into the picture, as they have a way of doing. There they were for the last couple of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, First Place, Hope, Starling Marte, Trevor Williams “Kid, we’re short of staff this weekend. I need you to go out to Citi Field and cover Sunday night’s Mets-Phillies game. The main thing is the lede. Watch what happens, and when you think you know what the main story is, type up a graf and shoot it back to the copy desk. We […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Chris Bassitt, Comebacks, Drama, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Nick Plummer, Starling Marte, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoffs Once upon a time the Mets were down six runs in the seventh and with my eyes on bedtime I composed a minor recap I knew wasn’t a classic but thought did its duty well enough, particularly grading on the curve for West Coast night-owl duty. It was called “Ten Commandments for a West Coast […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Giants, Joc Pederson, Madness, Stephen Nogosek, Walkoff Losses The Mets needed lengthy starting pitching in their Saturday afternoon makeup of Friday night’s snowout, since it was to be followed by a regularly scheduled Saturday night game, and they pretty much got it. Carlos Carrasco, in his first Coors Field start (and probably the first game he’s pitched on May 21 that was postponed […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Coors Field, Day-Night Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Necessities, Patrick Mazeika, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Snow, Starling Marte, Unswept The Mets have now played the Mariners 16 times in their history, but such a matchup will always feel a bit like a videogame showdown with a weird little cousin. “You want to be the Mariners? C’mon, really? It’s the AL West — I don’t know any of those names. Hell, half of them look […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Drew Smith, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Winker, Marco Gonzales, Mariners, Paul Sewald, Pete Alonso, Rob Manfred You get an early lead, which is good. You sweat an early lead, which is natural. You hold an early lead, which is satisfying. You do it all over again a couple of hours later and you’ve really got something there. In a parallel universe, perhaps the Braves come back on the Mets in one or […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Carlos Carrasco, Confidence, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Pete Alonso, Seth Lugo No-hitters can leave you speechless in the moment but have you saying all kinds of things you hadn’t previously uttered in the days, weeks, months and years that follow. As Mets fans, we found ourselves speaking both excitedly and differently after June 1, 2012. When your focus turns from “when are we gonna get one […] Back in the endless days of weird frustration before Johan Santana, before IT HAD HAPPENED, I had a thought that would sneak into my head — despite my earnest attempts to shoo it away — when a Mets pitcher was in doomed pursuit of the franchise’s seemingly unobtainable first no-hitter. Please don’t let our first no-hitter […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Black Jerseys, Buck Showalter, Chris Heston, Combined No-Hitters, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Gary Cohen, J.T. Realmuto, James McCann, Jim Abbott, Joely Rodriguez, Johan Santana, Len Barker, Max Scherzer, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Philip Humber, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Tom Seaver, Tylor Megill |
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