Each Matt Harvey start transports me to a better place — a better place than third, even if the Mets have been stuck there since well before he came up and will have to keep what’s left of their act together to remain there. (Hard-to-believe fact: the Mets, despite losing 20 of their last 28, [...]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1977 Mets, 1983 Mets, Matt Harvey, MercyMe, Paul Maholm, Six Feet Under, Winning Tonight at 7, prior to the pregame show, SNY takes us back to the bridge linking the fetid past with the promising future via Mets Yearbook: 1983. The campaign in question yielded the Mets’ seventh consecutive terrible record (68-94) but ended on a reasonably high note (31-29). More foretelling, the season marked the Met debuts [...] 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 that includes the “best” 109th game in any Mets season, the “best” 110th game in any Mets season, [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1983 Mets, 1998 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Ken Boswell, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Turk Wendell, Walt Terrell 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 that includes the “best” 103rd game in any Mets season, the “best” 104th game in any Mets season, [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1995 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jason Isringhausen, Mookie Wilson, Team History, The Happiest Recap 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” 31st game in any Mets season, the “best” 32nd game in any Mets season, [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1983 Mets, 2010 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Ike Davis, Team History, The Happiest Recap In the spring of 1980, the New Yorker’s Roger Angell was making his incomparable annual rounds and alighted on St. Petersburg for a morning B-squad game between Joe Torre’s Mets and their neighbors, Ken Boyer’s Cardinals. The rookie getting everybody’s attention that March was St. Louis’s big first baseman Leon Durham — “he is called [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1990 Mets, Al Harazin, Billy Beane, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Roberts, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Leon Durham, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Cubbage, Roger Angell, Rusty Staub, Team History, Vince Coleman [T]his appreciation for diverse views may also come in handy as a diehard Mets fan serving alongside her new colleague-to-be, Yankees fan Justice Sotomayor — who I believe has ordered a pinstripe robe for the occasion. Elena Kagan has been nominated to serve as the next Associate Justice of the Supreme [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Elena Kagan, Presidents, Supreme Court, Tom Seaver Welcome to a special Wednesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1989 Mets, Flashback Friday, Jeff Musselman, Mookie Wilson, Trades Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 364 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 7/8/83 F Houston 0-3 Torrez 2 9-20 L 6-3 In [...] It was so great to have Tom Seaver come home again on April 5, 1983, almost six seasons beyond the wretched trade that turned him into an ex-Met. |
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