As one who doesn’t subscribe to Peacock, I couldn’t tell you what Sunday’s Mets-Angels game looked like, but from the sound of it over WCBS-AM, it was quite the staring contest. The Mets stared at the Angels. The Angels stared at the Mets. It was 0-0, 1-1 and 2-2. Two teams used to staring into […]
 
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. (Sorry, but we have no interest in ads, sponsored content or guest posts.) Need our RSS feed? It's here. Visit our Facebook page, or drop by the personal pages for Greg and Jason. Or follow us on Twitter: Here's Greg, and here's Jason. |
 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1973 Mets, Aaron Harang, Angels, Austin Jackson, Casey Kasem, Cory Sullivan, David Peterson, Dead End Achievers, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Alvarez, Interlopers Among Us, Kevin Bass, Nori Aoki, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Radio, Rafael Ortega, Ron Swoboda, Semi-Pro, Shohei Ohtani, Team History, Walkoffs, Wilson Delgado Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees In his career, he was — among other things — an Astro, a Giant and a Met. He stood in the batter’s box representing the last shred of doubt as to where a hard-earned National League flag would fly. If he succeeded, his team would know life and a possible world championship. If he didn’t, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1992 Mets, 2006 Mets, Astros, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Historical Dissonance, Kevin Bass 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 home away […] 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, George H.W. Bush, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Bass, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan, Philip Roth, Rick Aguilera, Roger McDowell |
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