The Mets’ return to Mercury went about as well as the maiden voyage 25 years ago. On July 27, 1999, New York’s National League franchise garbed up as from the planet closest to the sun and got burned, competitively and aesthetically. They lost to the Pirates that night and looked like…let’s say not Mets. Not […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bizarreness, Jesse Winker, Mercury Mets, Ryne Stanek, Spencer Schwellenbach, Tylor Megill Ah, baseball. It’s a game of redemption, they say. The question sometimes is who gets redeemed last. Chris Taylor, normally reliable as a Dodger, has endured a nightmarish 2024 so far, one that left him hitting .029 going into Friday night’s game against the Mets. Things didn’t get much better for Taylor in his first AB: […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Taylor, City Connect, Dodgers, Francisco Lindor, Freddie Freeman, Jake Diekman, Joey Wendle, Mercury Mets, Redemption, Reed Garrett, Uniforms, Yoshinobu Yamamoto “It’s just another ballpark to me,” Jason Isringhausen told reporters before he pitched for the first time at Citi Field. “But to put the ‘Mets’ across your chest, it’s pretty special.” The destruction of the temple kind of took the edge off the symbolism in Izzy’s comma-confirming homecoming Monday night. It would be a lot more […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, 1996 Mets, Jason Isringhausen, Mercury Mets, Past, Relief Pitching, Rockies |
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