 
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. |
Y’know that saying about how you have to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games? Well, if I can take the liberty of substituting that supposition with “supporter,” I think I’ve proven myself one of the better Mets fans of 2013. I am Jerry Koosman, 1977. 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” fourth game in any Mets season, the “best” fifth game in any Mets season, [...]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, 1984 Mets, 2005 Mets, Al Jackson, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap I live for learning something I never knew about the Mets, especially the early Mets. Today I learned, thanks to a conversation at Crane Pool Forum, that Fleer made Mets cards in 1963. It wasn’t so much that I previously thought they didn’t; it’s that it never occurred to me one way or another whether [...] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, Al Jackson, Baseball Cards, Fleer, Rod Kanehl, Roger Craig Winning in 20 innings by using 24 Mets who accumulated 9 hits despite batting against 2 Cardinal position players for the last 3 of those innings has generated some truly deep thinking among our readers, as evidenced by our unusually busy (for a Sunday) comments section and in-box. It’s great stuff, particularly the following, an [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 2010 Mets, Al Jackson, Bill Russell, Billy Cowan, Bob Shaw, Bobby Klaus, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Cliff Floyd, Dwight Gooden, Ed Kranepool, Ernest Hemingway, Felipe Lopez, George Stone, George Theodore, J.C. Martin, Jack Fisher, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Brewer, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Karim Garcia, Ken Boswell, Marathon, Orlando Cepeda, Pete Richert, Phil Hennigan, Randy Johnson, Rusty Staub, Rutgers, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Ubaldo Jimenez, Woodrow Wilson, World War I The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we’d have nothing more to sate our [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Eddie Kunz, Fernando Martinez, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, Jeff Kent, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Gonder, Jon Matlack, Jon Niese, Ken Boswell, Lastings Milledge, Mike Pelfrey, Mookie Wilson, Omir Santos, Philip Humber, Prospects, Roger McDowell, Ron Swoboda, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Topps All-Rookie Team, Ty Wigginton Holy crap! The baseball season starts in less than a week! I’ve been holed up with my Snigh for the last few days and realize that everything I’m seeing (except for the sailing show, the poker show and the Dean Martin Roasts infomercial) translates to potential implications for the first days of the rest of our [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Chris Cannizzaro, Ed Kranepool, Felix Mantilla, Jeff Kent, Jesse Orosco, John Franco, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Nolan Ryan, Team History, Tug McGraw |
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