 
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. Need our RSS feed? It's here. Use Facebook? Come check out our page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
Perhaps only somebody who has spent the past fifteen months immersed in every box score of every game the Mets have ever won can truly appreciate the absurdity of absolutist statements along the lines of, “The Mets have never done anything like this!” The Mets have absolutely done things like what they’re doing during this Interleague [...]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1990 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Angel Pagan, Hitting, Hot Streaks, Ronny Paulino, Team History In 1979’s Breaking Away, Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher) wants to race his bicycle in Indiana University’s Little 500, except Dave needs to be part of a team of four cyclists and none of his three fellow “cutters” (they’re not students at snooty IU, rather townies born and raised in Bloomington, thus the elements of conflict) [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Away, Franklin Roosevelt, Hymie Shorenstein, Jose Reyes, Staten Island Ferry, Team History I admit it, the only parts I heard were the boring parts. I got a late start on the evening, grabbing my iPhone as I dashed out the door. I fumbled my way into MLB At Bat and noted, with a certain cheerful approval, that it was already 2-0 Mets. Walking to pick up Emily in [...] Last week I went on a road trip, for a number of reasons: I wanted to get some junk out of our apartment, a problem I solved by selling CDs and sticking my parents with boxes of baseball cards; I wanted to see Gettysburg; I wanted to drive around for a couple of days; and [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bob G. Miller, Bob L. Gibson, Bob L. Miller, Bobby J. Jones, Bobby Jones, Bobby M. Jones, Jose A. Reyes, Jose Reyes, Mike Maddux, Pedro A. Martinez, The Holy Books Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 73rd game in any Mets season, the “best” 74th game in any Mets season, [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1997 Mets, Carlos Baerga, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Ray Knight, Team History, The Happiest Recap • The Mets are holding a blood drive on Thursday, July 7, at Caesars Club, 10 AM to 5 PM (enter through the Hodges VIP gate; parking available in Lot G at Roosevelt & 126th). You open up a vein to help save lives and the Mets will thank you with two tickets for a [...] Comments closed | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Blood Drive, Davey Johnson, Ike Davis, Jose Reyes, Roger Hess's Climb Up Denali One of the formative stories for me as a Mets fan comes from 1969. As it’s told in George Vecsey’s marvelous Joy in Mudville, after the Mets reached 18-18 with a win over the Braves, reporters entered the clubhouse expecting “a wild champagne party,” but found the Mets drinking postgame beers and sodas as usual. [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Jeff Wilpon, Rangers, Terry Collins, Tom Seaver I got fixed up Saturday afternoon with a half-inning: the top of the sixth of the Mets-Rangers game from Arlington. I picked her up right after the bottom of the fifth was done. “Where you wanna go?” I asked her. “Nowhere in particular,” she said. “You can just drive around.” Seemed to be going well. The top of [...] Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It’s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. That’s Don DeLillo, in the great novel White Noise — and a quote that was uncomfortably top of mind as I watched the Mets make outs and drop balls and get whacked around by the Texas Rangers’ [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Hope, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 70th game in any Mets season, the “best” 71st game in any Mets season, [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1964 Mets, 1972 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jimmy Piersall, Joe Christopher, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver |
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