I had hoped Tyler Pill might be Grover Powell. Grover Powell’s first major league start, for the Mets in 1963, was a complete game shutout, which didn’t happen for Mets rookies every day in 1963, nor, come to think of it, today. Before long, Tyler Pill 2017, who reacted well to the lights in Flushing […]
 
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. |
 20 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Asdrubal Cabrera, Domingo Santana, Fog, Frank Deford, Grover Powell, Jay Bruce, Joel Youngblood, Josh Smoker, Luis Castillo, Manny Gonzalez, Mike Scioscia, Moment of Silence, Rick Anderson, Shaun Marcum, T.J. Rivera, The Mets Subconscious, Tyler Pill Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day via the most impressive thing Jim Bunning ever did for public consumption. Bunning threw a perfect game on Father’s Day […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Applause for a Visitor, Howie Rose, Jim Bunning, Moment of Silence, Perfect Games, Ralph Kiner, Shea Stadium Dallas Green, who managed the Mets through a lean period of fizzled prospects and bad uniforms, died yesterday at 82. It’s funny paying tribute to someone whose baseball resume lists more accomplishments for other franchises. Green was most definitely “ours,” a Mets pitcher in the summer of 1966 (albeit for five undistinguished innings) and then a manager for […] It was only natural that Jimmy Breslin addressed the Mets’ status at the top of the heap in 1986. Breslin covered the Mets in 1962, when they concluded their affairs eighty games from breaking even. They buried themselves so deeply beneath .500, they’re still trying to dig out in the cumulative sense. Chances are they […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, An Appreciation, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Jimmy Breslin, Moment of Silence The stars aligned for the Mets in the middle 1980s, and in his way, nobody did more to display them than Bill Webb. He caught the rising stars so we could watch them shine on Channel 9. He did for this franchise what Jason Lee as Jeff Bebe as more or less Glenn Frey asked […] Tim Raines can stop retroactively beating the Mets now. Ever since his Hall of Fame election came into view a couple of months ago, I’ve seen two clips repeatedly: Tim Raines beating the Mets with his baserunning (sliding into second base on a successful stolen base attempt) and Tim Raines beating the Mets with his […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, Collusion, Expos, Hall of Fame, Harry Minor, Moment of Silence, Mookie Wilson, Scouting, Tim Raines We didn’t tweet in 1977, but if we had, I’m sure we would have assailed the year we lived in for being #TheWorst for taking from our midst so many beloved icons (and that’s not counting the baseball business conducted on June 15 of that year). Elvis died. Bing died. Groucho and his brother Gummo. […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Bill Kent, Chris Cannizzaro, David Bowie, Dennis Byrd, Dick Smith, George Michael, Glenn Frey, Julius La Rosa, Moment of Silence, Paul Kantner, Phil Hennigan, Ralph Branca I knew Monday night’s game against the Marlins would be emotionally wrenching. I think we all did. But I wasn’t prepared for just how tough it would be, and how tough it kept being. There was the sight of every Marlin wearing Jose Fernandez‘s No. 16, and the knowledge that it would never be worn again. There was […] 31 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Dee Gordon, Giancarlo Stanton, Jose Fernandez, Justin Bour, Marlins, Martin Prado, Moment of Silence, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes Under the format that’s been in place since 2001, you usually play your division rivals nineteen times a season. As a result, you become intimately familiar with them. When the Mets play somebody from the National League Central or West or American League, it’s almost as if we’re welcoming or visiting special guest stars. You […] The Mets won their 67th game ever at Turner Field on Sunday, or as reliable sources continue to insist, “They never won there; even if you present me with a list of occasionally stirring Met victories in that ballpark, I refuse to acknowledge it.” Mets fans who prefer misery as company (and there are a […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Braves, Milestones, Moment of Silence, Peaches, Perceptions, Seth Lugo, Turner Field, Yoenis Cespedes |
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