The old adage “if you wanna win a ballgame, you gotta be able to triple” doesn’t exist, but based on foundational Mets lore, maybe it oughta. In their first nine games of existence, the Mets totaled 68 hits. Eight were doubles, twelve were homers, the rest were singles. All of the games were losses. 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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 2009 Mets, Al Leiter, Amed Rosario, Bobby Gene Smith, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Butler, Bud Harrelson, Cory Sullivan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Eric Cammack, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Lance Johnson, Marlon Anderson, Mookie Wilson, Ruben Tejada, Sammy Taylor, Team History, Triples, Victor Zambrano, Willie Montanez It would be out of character for me to not cheerlead the return of Jose Reyes to the New York Mets for his twelfth non-consecutive season in orange and blue, so RAH-RAH, I say, that Reyes is back without having gone anywhere. If I could grandfather in the four seasons he was elsewhere (and fully excise from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Continuity, Ed Kranepool, Jose Reyes, Ty Kelly, Warren Spahn A time to be born, a time to die Baseball gives you what came before, what’s going on and what will come next. Life does that, too, I suppose, but as Casey Stengel might have […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Brad Emaus, Closing Day, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins It’s the ninth inning of the Mets’ eighty-first and final home game at Citi Field, the last chance I will have to watch up close a team I’ve seen too much of for six months. I am here out of a sense of obligation, though not a real obligation, rather a longstanding rule I have […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, Closing Day, Closing Night, Jose Reyes, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins Sunday afternoons and Citi Field haven’t gotten along in 2017. Far be it from me to horn in on the middle of their mysterious feud, but sometimes you gotta go where you gotta go, and on this last home Sunday afternoon of the 2017 season, I went to Citi Field. It was not like asking […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Billy Joel, Bobby Darin, Dominic Smith, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Hansel Robles, Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Phil Evans, Quality Starts, Rafael Santana, Sundays, Victor Robles We’ve rooted for good Mets teams in Septembers when they’ve lost ballgames badly. When every game matters in pursuit of the playoffs, every loss stings deeply. One loss can be all it takes to end the chase for which we as fans live, so of course we’re gonna take it hard when it lands on […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dominic Smith, Hansel Robles, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Mad Men, Paul Sewald, Reds, Replay Review, Sal Romano, Scott Schebler, Sundays, Travis d'Arnaud The Mets posted a message on their videoboards prior to Friday night’s game at Citi Field: WELCOME 2017 GROUPS. Judging from the clusters of onlookers scattered throughout the stands, it could have as accurately said WELCOME 2,017 PEOPLE. Demand for tickets doesn’t spike when the home team doesn’t readily supply a steady stream of wins. Eventually, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Groups, Jeopardy, Jimmy Rollins, Jose Reyes, Phillip Evans, Seth Lugo, Sports Management, Tommy Milone, Travis Taijeron, Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Youth of America There’s something about these New York Mets, these New York Mets of 2015, 2016 and 2017 that doesn’t let you turn your back completely on them. If we were realtors, we’d marvel at their good bones. We’re Mets fans, so we figure that’s just asking for trouble and a visit from Ray Ramirez with that […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, 2017 Mets, Asdrubal Cabrera, Bobbleheads, Comebacks, Hansel Robles, Instant Replay, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Josh Smoker, Lucas Duda, Mets Third Basemen, Third Base, Travis d'Arnaud, Walkoffs, Wilmer Flores Todd Hundley was at Thursday’s Mets game. He suited up and strapped it on in the bottom of the second when Lucas Duda added him to his pass list. Duda hit a home run that admitted one Hundley. Lucas’s blast evoked from the past the catcher who still owns half of the Mets’ single-season home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2005 Mets, Armando Benitez, Dan Wheeler, John Franco, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Mookie Wilson, Roberto Alomar, Roger Clemens, Team History, Time, Todd Hundley, Trades, Victor Diaz Trevor Rosenthal’s been a pitcher for nine professional seasons. (I’d throw in college and high school, but turns out he’s a converted shortstop.) I’m not sure how many times that means he’s practiced covering first, but let’s just say it’s a lot. After all PFP — that’s pitcher’s fielding practice — is part of the grind in […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jose Reyes, Seth Lugo, Tim McCarver, Trevor Rosenthal |
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