“It’s great to be young and a New York Giant.” —Larry Doyle, 25, in 1911 “I love being a Met. It’s truly one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my entire life.” —Jonah Tong, 22, in 2025 Here’s to the kids through the ages. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/31/t...

I may be old enough to know better than to fall in love with the next fledgling youth movement, but I’m also old enough to know it’s not much fun getting older without a few Met futures to anticipate. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/31/t...

Get down on your knees and thank your maker for a podcast like @funforallages.bsky.social

“It’s great to be young and a New York Giant.” —Larry Doyle, 25, in 1911 “I love being a Met. It’s truly one of the coolest things I’ve ever done in my entire life.” —Jonah Tong, 22, in 2025 Here’s to the kids through the ages. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/31/t...

I may be old enough to know better than to fall in love with the next fledgling youth movement, but I’m also old enough to know it’s not much fun getting older without a few Met futures to anticipate. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/31/t...

Remember the most obscure Mets season? It’s OK if you don’t. It was destined for instant obscurity from its delayed outset, and did nothing to divert from its path to nowhere while it went about its abbreviated business. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/26/f...

Remember the most obscure Mets season? It’s OK if you don’t. It was destined for instant obscurity from its delayed outset, and did nothing to divert from its path to nowhere while it went about its abbreviated business. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/26/f...

The Baseball Equinox approaches, as we box up and contextualize the barely middling 2025 Mets season (and notice we won't be unpacking Jeff McNeil when we move to 2026). www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/23/c...

The Baseball Equinox approaches, as we box up and contextualize the barely middling 2025 Mets season (and notice we won't be unpacking Jeff McNeil when we move to 2026). www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/23/c...

“My darkest fear is less about David Stearns guiding our ballclub toward losing records and more that he will unconsciously shepherd it toward well-deserved obscurity.” www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/15/w...

“They got great pitching. They got Koosman and Seaver and a fantastic bench. And that great platoon system of Gil Hodges.” —Mike Stivic, 1969…by way of a 1971 flashback episode of “All in the Family,” making his case to Archie Bunker that the Mets would win the pennant

On becoming overwhelmingly queasy at the sight of Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz in new uniforms — and considering David Stearns as something of a latter-day Leo Durocher. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/15/w...

“My darkest fear is less about David Stearns guiding our ballclub toward losing records and more that he will unconsciously shepherd it toward well-deserved obscurity.” www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/15/w...

On becoming overwhelmingly queasy at the sight of Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz in new uniforms — and considering David Stearns as something of a latter-day Leo Durocher. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/15/w...

Mets retroactively win Cone for Kent trade.

The Gehrig election was at a less constricted time for BBWAA elections. The Clemente one wasn't -- and was met with some resistance by some sportswriters. I wrote about it. sabr.org/journal/arti...

“I deep down believed, nah, we can’t possibly blow this. Then it got blown, and it was somehow not a shock. Nor that much of a surprise. It took me a while to come around to the idea that the 2025 Mets might not be that great, but it did sink in.” www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/02/t...

The 2025 Mets had loads of talent. Faith and Fear in Flushing’s choice for Nikon Camera Player of the Year indicates it wasn’t enough. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/12/02/t...

@daynperry.bsky.social wrote about Rob Manfred. www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/rob...

No, it isn’t a dream. You can relive the entire Mets postseason experience spanning 1969 through 2024 right here. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/27/a...

Every day is a day to be thankful the Mets have played in 105 postseason games. Today is the day we rank them. #LGM www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/27/a...

Brandon Nimmo knew us, got us, and gave us all he had to give. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/24/h...

Brandon Nimmo knew us, got us, and gave us all he had to give. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/24/h...

Is trading Brandon Nimmo even legal? Doesn't seem moral.

🎶Daddy was a cop On the east side of Chicago Back in the USA Back in the bad old days🎶

Heart, head, and extremities all cast ballots in favor of the latest Mets Hall of Fame class. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/20/h...

"The Polar Bear & Sugar" could be a long-running lighthearted action-adventure series still garnering critical praise after seven seasons on the air. Actually, for Mets fans, it kind of is. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/17/o...

“They’ve filled critical roles from the moment they settled in. They’ve starred and starred again.” Faith and Fear in Flushing’s co-winners of the Richie Ashburn Most Valuable Met award for 2025 are Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/17/o...

Saucy cross-pollenation between the consistently tangy @baseballandbbq.bsky.social and @franksantopadre.bsky.social, master chef at the meaty @funforallages.bsky.social. A treat for all ears!

That bone-chilling Saturday afternoon the Mets ALMOST signed "the greatest player in the world"...and the frigid Saturday night he ascended to the Angels. @andrewwyrich.bsky.social captures the pure, uncut angst in his essential @almostamet.bsky.social newsletter. I adored being a part of this.

"It's different when your team isn’t in it. You can go to the movies. You can go to the diner. You can think and talk about other things as well as nothing. You can also watch the ballgames your team isn’t in. Those can be classics, too." www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/08/a...

Still reflecting on an incredible World Series (and wondering why Kiner-Falefa couldn’t have taken a secondary lead just two feet further). www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/11/08/a...

Grateful to @defector.com for publishing a print version of my Replay Booth episode on a 61-year-old Mets mystery and for commissioning an illustration of Mr. Met with a pipe and magnifying glass defector.com/wilbur-huckl...

A truly Metsgasmic listening experience.

Maybe a Game Twelve.

It's a Game Six, but in Game Three.

In honor of what would have been Johnny Carson’s 100th birthday, LateNighter revisits 100 moments that shaped his legacy as the King of Late Night and defined The Tonight Show for a generation.

Your Cards of the Day: Topps gave the first League Championship Series (1969) the full treatment in the 1970 set. Note that all the photos of the Mets and Orioles are at home, despite the first two NLCS games being held in Atlanta and game 3 of the ALCS in Minnesota. @sabrbbcards.bsky.social

Bless his heart, he's got to be the sickest man in America.

The Mets-Jays connection that winds back decades. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/10/09/e...

Elimination Day now an international celebration. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/10/09/e...

Tomorrow is the 77th anniversary of the Steve Gromek/Larry Doby photo from the 1948 World Series. I wrote about it today--its importance in "Our Team" and how a research discovery almost sunk the climax of my book. Enjoy. substack.com/home/post/p-...

A month that is made for coping, and a team that’s proven easy enough to move on from. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/10/06/m...

Postseason elsewhere, euphemism season in Flushing. www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/10/04/s...

“Life is better when it’s baseball season, no matter that some baseball seasons yield nothing better than a slightly OK record, no matter that some baseball seasons crash rather than fall from grace.” #LGM www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/09/29/c...

“Life is better when it’s baseball season, no matter that some baseball seasons yield nothing better than a slightly OK record, no matter that some baseball seasons crash rather than fall from grace.” #LGM www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2025/09/29/c...

Some guys I prefer not to use in @immaculategrid.com. Tonight one guy seemed an appropriate answer.

Sure the thrill is gone. But take it to the limit one more time. #LGM

Sure the thrill is gone. But take it to the limit one more time. #LGM