For the diehard Mets fan who pined away through 1,725 regular-season games awaiting the return of Jason Vargas — and there’s bound to be one of you out there somewhere — congratulations. You got exactly what you were missing.
On July 3, […]
 
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. |
 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Al Jackson, Bill Pulsipher, David Cone, Frank Lary, Jason Vargas, Jon Niese, Recidivist Mets, Starting Pitching, Team History, Tom Seaver The Mets flirted with history several times on Sunday. Losing two in a row for the first time in 2018 would have been historic. No need to make that kind of history. Noah Syndergaard approached Tom Seaver’s major league record for consecutive strikeouts. Tom, as every schoolchild […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Chris Jones, Jackie Robinson, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Three or More Walkoff Home Runs, Walkoffs, Weekend Walkoff Homers, Wilmer Flores, WOT Remember that bruise on Kevin Plawecki’s mitt hand from Wednesday night’s game, the one that was declared just a bruise once x-rays were reported as negative? You will when you look for Plawecki behind the plate and see no trace of him. The hand, we learned from the Post’s Mike Puma Friday morning, is broken from […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Ruiz, Catchers, Dan Rather, Injuries, J.T. Realmuto, Johnny Monell, Jose Lobaton, Kevin Plawecki, Mets Catchers, Miguel Montero, Mike Piazza, Ron Hodges, Team History, Tomas Nido, Travin d'Arwecki, Travis d'Arnaud In the annals of New York Mets Squad Goals, none has loomed as more aspirational than Best Ten-Game Start in Franchise History, provided the Mets have tied their best nine-game start in franchise history, and the tenth game is the next to be played.
The second chapter of the perfect season completed itself Saturday, confirming that every good vibe we felt on Thursday was accurate. The Mets are 2-0 after beating St. Louis at Citi Field, 6-2. Clearly, they’ve gotten the hang of baseball and need only repeat everything they’ve done […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Gonzalez, Al Weis, Alberto Castillo, Danny Heep, Endy Chavez, Jacob deGrom, Joe McEwing, Juan Lagares, Matt Franco, Opening Day, Opening Day Lineups, Phillip Evans, Players Who Didn't Start on Opening Day, Ray Knight, Rod Kanehl, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Travis d'Arnaud They scheduled a baseball game in the northeastern United States for March 29 and snow was on the ground within a week of its first pitch. Imagine that. You’ll have a harder time imagining the baseball being played under climate conditions ideally associated with the sport in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jason Jacome, Jay Hook, Moment of Silence, Nino Espinosa, Noah Syndergaard, Opening Day Starters, Ray Burris, Second Game Starters, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Tracy Stallard Since New York and environs have been subject to the whims of nor’easters lately, let’s amble out to the northeast of the standard baseball field diagram and consider right field and its most practiced Metsian occupants thereof. We could forecast the weather, but the weather is revealing […] The Oscars were handed out Sunday night. Thus, per Monday morning-after tradition, the Academy pauses to remember those Mets who have, in the baseball sense, left us in the past year. ADAM ROBERT WILK
The old adage “if you wanna win a ballgame, you gotta be able to triple” doesn’t exist, but based on foundational Mets lore, maybe it oughta. In their first nine games of existence, the Mets totaled 68 hits. Eight were doubles, twelve were homers, the rest were singles. All of the games were losses. In […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2009 Mets, Al Leiter, Amed Rosario, Bobby Gene Smith, Brandon Nimmo, Brett Butler, Bud Harrelson, Cory Sullivan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Eric Cammack, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Lance Johnson, Marlon Anderson, Mookie Wilson, Ruben Tejada, Sammy Taylor, Team History, Triples, Victor Zambrano, Willie Montanez When the expansion draft rolled around on October 8, 1961, the one conceived to simultaneously create and cripple the New York Mets as a nominally competitive entity, George Weiss attempted to build a winning pitching staff from not too many wins. The seven pitchers he chose — Roger Craig, Craig Anderson, Ray Daviault, Al Jackson, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ambiorix Burgos, Erstwhile 18-Game Winners, Jane Leavy, Jason Vargas, Mickey Lolich, Pitcher Wins, Sandy Koufax, Team History |
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