In one of those Faith and Fear traditions known only to me, I like to present a list as long as Eric Hillman’s left arm when my birthday falls on a Sunday. Since we’ve been doing FAFIF, my birthday has fallen on a Sunday twice, in 2006 and 2017. Today is the third time. I’m […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1974 Mets, 1977 Mets, 1979 Mets, 1982 Mets, 1992 Mets, 1993 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2017 Mets, 2020 Mets, 2023 Mets, Armando Benitez, Birthdays, Bob Hope, Bob Murphy, Daryl Boston, Dave Kingman, Empty, Esix Snead, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, High School Musicals, Jesse Orosco, John Olerud, Jon Matlack, Lenny Randle, McDonald’s, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Peanuts, Richie Hebner, Stephen Jay Gould, Superstripe, Travis d'Arnaud, Turtle Wax, Wristbands I looked at Jon Matlack from a Promenade’s distance on Saturday and thought of the Jon Matlack game I inevitably think of when I think of Jon Matlack: the 1-0 loss to Chicago on the final Sunday in 1973, emblematic of tough luck among very good Mets pitchers and a reminder that a 1-0 loss, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Old Timers Day, Steve Dillon, Thrills Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling Well, that wasn’t much fun. The Mets were forced to start TBD — again! So they turned to Jerad Eickhoff — again! And it didn’t go well — again! Eickhoff, you may recall, had already been DFA’d twice by the Mets this year. He opted for free agency, but signed another minor-league deal and reported for duty […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Austin Riley, Braves, Carlos Carrasco, David Peterson, Jacob deGrom, Jerad Eickhoff, Jon Matlack, Nightmarish Pitching Performances, Noah Syndergaard, Rich Hill 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. One day in the spring of 1987, I chatted on the phone with my mom. This wasn’t noteworthy — I was a senior in boarding school, and in the era before cellphones we’d take turns […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Andre Dawson, Calvin Schiraldi, Charlie Kerfeld, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter, John Boccabella, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Randy Sterling MLB’s “Summer Camp” has not only been named, it’s been sponsored, by a company called Camping World. Perhaps when the streamlined sixty-game schedule is announced, the reveal can be sponsored by Thom McAn, considering we’re all kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop on baseball’s best-laid, half-assed plans. True, they no longer have Thom […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1975 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2020 Mets, 60-Man Pool, Chili Davis, Darryl Strawberry, Gordon Beckham, Hunter Strickland, Jared Hughes, John Pacella, Jon Matlack, Luis Rojas, Melky Cabrera, Ruben Tejada, Summer On September 15, 1983, a 33-year-old lefthanded pitcher from West Chester, Pa., appeared in a major league baseball game for the 361st time in a career that dated to July 11, 1971. In 318 games, he was the starting pitcher. This wasn’t one of those games. On this day, a Thursday afternoon in Oakland, Jonathan […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Contiguity, Edgardo Alfonzo, Jon Matlack, Mets Hall of Fame, Ron Darling Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team getting your spot. But never mind that Jacob deGrom was the most stellar Met of the first […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Bobby Bonilla, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Who've Won All-Star Games, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Ron Hunt, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays What to do with a 1-0 loss? Throw stuff? Suck it up? Shrug? There are no wrong answers. It is the baseball epitome of close but no cigar. I’m not sure of the appeal of cigars, but one run sure sounded good on Wednesday. One Met run, that is. There was one National run, and it […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 losses, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2008 Mets, Bob Sebra, Fernando Salas, Jay Bruce, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Mike Pelfrey, Robert Gsellman, Tanner Roark, Team History, Yoenis Cespedes Once upon a time, the spring of 1969, to be precise, the New York Mets were in the market for a hitter. Sure, other GMs told their Met counterpart Johnny Murphy, we’ll give you somebody. Names like Joe Torre, Richie Allen, even Frank Robinson were floated. All it would cost the Mets was young starting […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2015 Mets, Donn Clendenon, Fair Exchange, John Gant, Johnny Murphy, Jon Matlack, Michael Fulmer, Steve Renko, Team History, Trades, Yoenis Cespedes |
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