Soon enough, we will concern ourselves with Spring Training hellos, including those from the Mets’ most recent flurry of somewhat tentative acquisitions. There’ll be first-pitch greetings from Shawn Marcum, Scott Atchison and LaTroy Hawkins; first-catch greetings from Landon Powell; greetings for the first time in a little while from previously dispatched Omar Quintanilla; greetings for [...]
 
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. |
 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Woodward, Danny Heep, Ed Charles, Football, Going Out On Top, J.C. Martin, Kevin Mitchell, Landon Powell, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Masato Yoshii, Octavio Dotel, Omar Quintanilla, Pedro Feliciano, Ray Knight, Scott Atchison, Shawn Marcum, Team History Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years. Forty-three Fridays. This is one of them. You know who wanted the Astros to beat the Mets in 1986? George Bush. Both of them. The elder Bush was the vice president at the time. His [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Bobby Ojeda, Charlie Kerfeld, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Dwight Gooden, Flashback Friday, Gary Carter, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Bass, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan, Rick Aguilera, Roger McDowell Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them. As the institutional kvelling over the 2006 Mets shifts into high gear, I listened to Tim Kurkjian on Baseball Tonight quote an unnamed National League manager [...] |
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