The Mets’ slump has become a full-fledged rut, one of those stretches where a team seems suddenly incapable of doing any of the things it just recently did so well. Met hitters are expanding the strike zone and flailing their way through frantic at-bats, Met fielders are being alternately impetuous and butter-fingered, Met starters are faltering and Met relievers are […]
 
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. |
 32 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Baseball Cards, Fans, Moment of Silence, Panic City, Pennant Race, Yogi Berra The first-place Mets, you might say, were lucky Tuesday night. True, they lost for the fifth time in seven games — 6-2 to the Braves — but they won a valuable square foot of real estate in their march toward the National League East title when the Nationals lost to the Orioles. Their magic number […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 1973 Mets, Mets Managers, Moment of Silence, Yogi Berra It was the “Mambo No. 5” game. That’s one of the two ways I differentiate it from all the other games I’ve attended. In the seventh-inning stretch, they played “Mambo No. 5,” the very contemporary and very kitschy song Lou Bega was making famous late in the summer of 1999. I don’t know why they […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, Darryl Hamilton, Lou Bega, Moment of Silence “In ‘reel’ life,” Jeff Merron noted in an ESPN critique of Bull Durham’s depiction of how baseball actually works, “[Nuke] LaLoosh is promoted from A ball to the majors in the span of a few months.” But in reality, “It’s almost unheard of — especially for a pitcher who struggled part of the season in […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Akeel Morris, Bull Durham, Moment of Silence, Nelson Doubleday If you played for the Worst Teams Money Could Buy, plural, then chances are you ended your evenings on the short end of a lot of baseball scores. By that standard, the universe might owe Jeff McKnight a handful of high-fives. Few Mets played as many games as McKnight did and lost a larger percentage of […] This here’s a story about Charlie Williams, a young pitcher who seemed destined for if not big, then definitely specific things. Consider what can be gleaned about C.W. from his C.V. • Born in Flushing fourteen years before ground was broken on the stadium that would make that Queens village world-famous. • Matriculated at Great Neck South […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, Charlie Williams, Moment of Silence, Willie Mays Ernie Banks on a 1969 baseball card shot at Shea Stadium. No way it wasn’t a beautiful day. We know what Ernie Banks, Mr. Cub, had to say about doubleheaders. Yet I thought it might be fitting to remember there was more to the man who passed away Friday eight days shy of his […] “It’s pretty hard to say goodbye to anything.” On September 28, we were prepared to say goodbye to the 2014 baseball season and one of its featured players. If the Mets were listed like a movie cast, Bobby Abreu would have been presented last, with a generous “AND” preceding his credit. He was […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Abreu, Cafe Edison, Eric Young Jr., Farewells, Hockey, Home, Moment of Silence, RIchie the Cop Sad news out of Long Island: Sy Berger, the father of modern baseball cards, died today at 91. Berger didn’t invent baseball cards — they date back to 19th-century “trade cards” and were first popularized by cigarette companies. But Berger made them the empire they became. In 1947 he started working as a marketer at Brooklyn-based Topps, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Moment of Silence, The Holy Books As a seven-year-old Mets fan in my first full season of rooting, I gravitated to Ray Sadecki, who passed away Monday at the age of 73, as my favorite Met pitcher who wasn’t Tom Seaver. Seaver ascended to a permanent pedestal on a level all his own in 1969, so in the vast space between […] |
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