 
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. |
It may feel like we’ll see more losses like Wednesday afternoon’s than Ruben Tejada will see pitches this year, but it won’t be nearly that bad, statistically speaking. We can’t lose more than 158 games and Ruben sees almost that many pitches in a given week. Yet sometimes you can’t argue with how something feels. Wrightlessness [...]  23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrew Johnson, Ike Davis, Injuries, Johan Santana, Relief Pitching, Roger Craig, Ruben Tejada, Stephen Strasburg, Walter Johnson Congratulations to the five Faith and Fear in Flushing readers who each won a copy of Baseball’s Greatest Games: 1986 World Series Game 6 from A&E Home Entertainment in association with MLB Productions. These five industrious fellows answered a quiz issued last Tuesday to coincide with the 25th anniversary of what was then indisputably the greatest World [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2011 Postseason, Alejandro Pena, Bob Johnson, Bob L. Miller, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Oliver, David Cone, Jack Lamabe, Jeff Reardon, Juan Berenguer, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Tapani, Mike Remlinger, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Martinez, Rick Aguilera, Roger Craig, Team History, Tony Castillo, Tug McGraw 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” 112th game in any Mets season, the “best” 113th game in any Mets season, [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1963 Mets, 1982 Mets, 1985 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Ellis Valentine, Fiftieth Anniversary, Roger Craig, 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 |
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