The First No-Hitter in New York Mets History can be watched (and listened to in two languages) again and again by the five Faith and Fear readers who were first to correctly answer all 15 questions of our Monday night quiz. Congratulations to Chris D’Orso, Josh Himmelsbach, Brock Mahan, Stephen Malone and Joe Nunziata, and […]
 
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. |
***WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THANKS ALL FOR PLAYING.*** You haven’t lived until you’ve listened to the Spanish-language call of the ninth inning of the First No-Hitter in New York Mets History synced to the video. And if you’re wondering where you can do that, boy do we have a DVD for five of you! Watch. […]  1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Johan Santana, Radio We didn’t miss winning Friday night’s ballgame by much. Another inch or so batwise, and either Wright or Davis gets much more than a sacrifice fly in the first and we’re tied at three. The pitcher’s glove that deflects Jerry Hairston’s grounder away from Ruben Tejada keeps a runner off base in advance of Luis […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alibis, Explanations, Johan Santana, Jordany Valdespin, Luis Cruz, Lyndon Johnson, Matt Kemp, Theories They sold the jerseys, they sold the dirt, they sold replicas of the tickets they didn’t sell…the Mets were so anxious to cash in on Johan Santana’s no-hitter that they even put the game-used shortstop up for sale! Didn’t necessarily think there’d be any takers, but the Orioles just had to have a piece of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blasphemy, First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Johan Santana, Omar Quintanilla How is it a player named Ben Sheets never played for a team whose signature promotion involves fans carrying bedsheets? No, that’s probably not your uppermost Met concern following a very unbanner day in Atlanta, but after being subject to the worst kind of familiar — getting swept at Turner Field for the thirteenth time since […] But when my pace is falling slack I suggested to my buddy Jim we get together Friday night to watch the Mets game at this place in Rockville Centre in whose present incarnation I’d never set foot but in whose confines I’d seen plenty. […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, Carlos Marmol, Chicken Pot Pie, Ike Davis, Johan Santana, Lucas Duda, Premonitions Gone Awry, Rainmakers, Reed Johnson, Rockville Centre, Scottish Brogues, Summer Nights I guess I should be more up in Panda arms over David Wright not starting the All-Star Game despite his being not just a better all-around third baseman but probably a better cuddly zoo animal than Pablo Sandoval, yet given the system that produced this silly result, it’s funnier than it is an outrage. David […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Team, David Wright, Farce, Johan Santana, R.A. Dickey I used to watch my team’s games and hope for the best in the vaguest sense of the word. Then June 2012 came along and on its very First night, I received the best. I received the best thing a June game could give. I received the one thing I’d been waiting for my entire […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Excellence Again and Again, Johan Santana, PItching, R.A. Dickey You can lose one game to the Cubs, who are professionals no matter their record. You can appear helpless at the left hand of Travis Wood, whose command was sharp and approach was impeccable. You can waste Johan Santana’s six strong innings because sometimes great pitchers on good nights are outdone by lesser pitchers on […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Expectations, Johan Santana, Lucas Duda, Terry Collins, Travis Wood, Wrigley Field The poor Orioles are getting killed at Citi Field, and they don’t have a clue. Yesterday it was R.A. Dickey, armed with a knuckleball that was for all intents and purposes unhittable, one he used to write the latest chapter of his remarkable story. Greg chronicled R.A.’s second straight one-hitter here yesterday; today Roger Angell — our […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fans, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, No-Hitters, PItching, R.A. Dickey |
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