The first pitch that will carry the most weight in Game Three of the National League Championship Series will be thrown by Luis Severino. Our emotions will ride on that pitch and however many more Luis throws, each guaranteed our overwhelming support — despite Luis’s fondness for the black jerseys that will infiltrate our heretofore […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2024 Postseason, Ceremonial First Pitches, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Edgardo Alfonzo, Luis Severino, Matt Harvey, Robin Ventura, Yoenis Cespedes Today we reach that year in the MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT countdown when I have to admit I went to sleep sometime in early April and woke up sometime in early November. That must be what happened, because I don’t seem to have any memories of anything that could […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dreams, Fathers and Sons, Matt Harvey, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Noah Syndergaard, Steven Maz, Wilmer Flores, Yoenis Cespedes The primary bus scene in Bull Durham, the one in which wise, older Crash Davis informs young, wild Nuke LaLoosh that nobody gets woolly, rushed across the strike zone of the mind Friday morning, specifically the line, “You could be one of those guys.” One of the realest-life Nuke LaLooshes to have toed a rubber […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2015 Mets, An Appreciation, Bull Durham, Harvey Day, Kodai Senga, Matt Harvey, Retirements This is a nominally festive occasion. Faith and Fear in Flushing turns 17 today. The team we cover recognized this milestone by announcing they will retire No. 17 this season and reinstate Old Timers Day so the authors of this blog will feel right at home. All that the Mets and their MLB franchise brethren need […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobbleheads, Don McLean, February, Gerald Williams, Internal Affairs, Lockout, Matt Harvey, Moment of Silence, Old Timers Day, Spring Training As the Mets scored their first seven runs on Wednesday night, I felt a tinge of sadness for the Orioles pitcher who surrendered them. It wasn’t a particularly ceremonial surrender. No white flags, just pitches that didn’t have much fight left in them. I wouldn’t claim to know if the same could be said for […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy McKinney, Blowouts, Kevin Pillar, Matt Harvey, Taijuan Walker Matt Harvey was on the mound at Citi Field. Harvey’s Met teammates were scattered about: Michael Conforto and Dom Smith batting third and fifth, respectively; Jeurys Familia and Robert Gsellman chilling in the bullpen for possible deployment later; Jacob deGrom waiting out a precautionary injured list stint in the dugout, somewhere down the bench […] 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. In the 2012 offseason, the Mets made a controversial deal, sending knuckleball artist and fan favorite R.A. Dickey to the Blue Jays for a return built around a minor-leaguer who was seen as a […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 World Series, 2018 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Bret Saberhagen, Dan Warthen, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Medieval Siege Weapons, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud 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. Oh yeah FLUSHING (FAF) — Matt Harvey, one of the towering New York Met figures of his time, may opt out of participating […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2016 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Matt Harvey, Sandy Alderson, Scott Boras Welcome to the tenth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, R.A. Dickey, Yoenis Cespedes Zack Wheeler struck out eleven Phillies in the course of throwing seven shutout innings Tuesday night at Citi Field, which was extremely nice and fairly necessary. Wheeler’s a pitcher, and it’s his job to pitch very well. Replicating his trajectory of 2018, except sooner, he’s gone from shaky […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Rhame, Jeremy Hefner, Johan Santana, Matt Harvey, Mets of the 2010s, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, Team History, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler |
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