Maybe Billy Joel’s Brenda and Eddie could never go back to the green, but I have no compunction about returning to scenes from my own fields of reality. Therefore, I welcome you anew to MY FAVORITE SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a series counting down just what the title implies. I started […]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1990 Mets, Billy Joel, Bob Newhart, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Magadan, David Cone, Decades, Donna Summer, Dwight Gooden, Eras, Goodfellas, Julio Valera, Kids in the Hall, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, Newspapers, Pat Tabler, Pirates, Roger Angell, The National, Wilson Phillips When your team’s going well, you call a game like Sunday afternoon’s things like “an inspiring win” or perhaps “proof of resilience.” When your team’s going badly, you just laugh at being randomly atop karma’s wheel for a day. I’m not sure what to call Sunday afternoon’s game, because I’m not sure what the Mets are. One of […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aroldis Chapman, Blown Saves, Brandon Nimmo, Colin Holderman, Comebacks, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Jose Iglesias, Luis Ortiz, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Nick Gonzales, Pirates, Sean Manaea In the early going Saturday, it sure looked like the Mets had reverted to the unholy mess they were throughout May. In the first inning they followed second and third and nobody out with a pop-out and a pair of Ks; in the second they wasted a leadoff single and then a one-out double. In […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dennis Santana, Derek Shelton, Edwin Diaz, Jack Suwinski, John Tumpane, Luis Torrens, Mark Vientos, Oneil Cruz, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Reed Garrett, Umpiring Congratulations to the New York Mets of July 5, 2024, for doing something no Mets team had ever done before in a blowout loss so bad that a position player had to pitch. On Friday night, the Mets, whose last call to the visitors’ bullpen at PNC Park would summon catcher Luis Torrens, actually stayed […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Backloaded Blowout Losses, Bill Pecota, Bryan Reynolds, Grand Slams, Home Runs, Jake Diekman, Luis Severino, Luis Torrens, Paul Skenes, Pirates, Position Players Pitching, Rowdy Tellez, Steven Matz, Team History, Ty Adcock “Don’t you just love it when you come back from the bathroom and find your food waiting for you?” Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) asks Vincent Vega (John Travolta) over dinner at Jackrabbit Slim’s in Pulp Fiction, just as she has indeed returned from (ahem) powdering her nose to find the “bloody” Durward Kirby Burger she […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Bob Murphy, Bunting, Distinctive Scores, Harrison Bader, Jack Fisher, Jeff McNeil, Pirates, Pulp Fiction, Ron Hunt, Shea Stadium, the immortal Chris Majkowski, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Stargell How do you know things are going well? Here’s a sign: You take the lead off an opposing pitcher before he even throws a pitch. The Mets somehow did that Tuesday night, the culmination of several unlikely events. They were down 1-0 to the Pirates in the seventh after being smothered by Pittsburgh’s Jared Jones and […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Drew Smith, Jared Jones, Jeff McNeil, Joey Wendle, Jorge Lopez, Jose Hernandez, Jose Quintana, Pirates, Reed Garrett The Mets are suddenly good. Well, not good exactly. Statistically speaking, they’re average. But in the vibes column — which you won’t find in your paper, on MLB.com or Baseball Reference, so don’t look for it — the Mets are killing it. They rose to average statistically and red hot vibe-istically by beating the Pirates in an […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Adrian Houser, Andrew McCutchen, Aroldis Chapman, Bud Selig, Butch Huskey, Connor Joe, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Edwin Moscoso, Harrison Bader, Jackie Robinson, Pirates, Rachel Robinson, Toby Borland It was a DJ Stewart, Rafael Ortega kind of day at Citi Field Wednesday afternoon, which wasn’t incompatible with it being a winning kind of day, for Ortega was on base four different times three different ways and Stewart socked a pair of homers and was in on a pair of sparkling defensive plays, and […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bullpen Churn, Dennis Santana, DJ Stewart, Edwin Uceta, Mets Third Basemen, Pirates, Rafael Ortega, Roster Turnover, Tylor Megill “David Peterson.” “It’s simple, I mention a name or something else, and you tell me the first thing you think of.” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Colin Holderman, Consecutive Games Played, Daniel Murphy, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, David Thompson, DJ Stewart, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grant Hartwig, Gus Bell, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, John J. Murphy Memorial Award, Jonathan Arauz, Jose Butto, Justin Verlander, Kodai Senga, Omar Narvaez, One Met Homer Only, Pete Alonso, Pirates, Team History, Winning Time Imagine being Sam Coonrod. You go to spring training with a loaded team being talked up as bound for the World Series. You’re being talked up as a prospective member of said team’s bullpen. It’s got to be exciting. But you don’t get out of March before being felled by a strained lat. The team goes north […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Garbage Time, Jonathan Arauz, Phil Bickford, Pirates, Rafael Ortega, Sam Coonrod, Trevor Gott, Tyson Miller |
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