Magnetic schedules attract me. I have one from every season since the Mets have been giving them out. I was determined to not let that streak end last year. Magnetic Schedule Day was a Sunday, April 10, 2011. I’d been to the Home Opener on Friday. I’d been to the game the night before. Truth [...]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dana Brand, Hofstra Conference, Magnetic Schedules, Milestones, Willie Harris 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” 154th game in any Mets season, the “best” 155th game in any Mets season, [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Todd Hundley, Victor Diaz, Willie Harris I’m kind of sorry I ever heard the admonition to not trust what I see in September since I’d like to believe what I watched and listened to Saturday was a true indication of where the Mets (and the Phillies) are headed. Yet I understand that they were just two games getting played because contractually [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Jason Pridie, Nick Evans, Willie Harris Short of doing something that will get you arrested, you can’t affect the outcome of a baseball game. Your hooting and hollering does nothing. Neither does praying, cajoling or threatening. Baseball takes no notice of your swaggering overconfidence and ignores your pretend humility. It does not care that you care. It does not care that [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, David Wright, Justin Turner, Ruben Tejada, Superstition, Tony La Russa, Willie Harris It’s not our pennant race, but we were about to make a potentially legendary impact on it. That would’ve been fun. In the bottom of the second, already behind by two, Chris Schwinden couldn’t have appeared much more in danger. Infield hijinks, bloop warfare and the temptation of hitting Rafael Furcal that was just too good [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cardinals, Chris Schwinden, Jaime Garcia, Josh Satin, Losing Record, Mike Hessman, Spoiler, Willie Harris It was during Willie Harris’s at-bat in the ninth inning Wednesday night that I was trying very hard, from way out in the right field corner, to will another ball out of Drew Storen so as to build the slightest of rallies and increase the slightest of chances that the crappiest of games might reverse [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bunting, Distasteful Pleasures, Drew Storen, Rick Ankiel, September, Willie Harris Saturday’s Mets game can be broken down into three convenient segments. 1) Top of the first through the top of the eighth No further comment necessary. 2) Bottom of [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Herrera, David Wright, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Kenny Powers, Ruben Tejada, Ubiquitious Cell Phone Commercials, Willie Harris Last Thursday, when Jason and I availed ourselves of the hospitality of the MLB Fan Cave, the first telecast that came on their massive wall of TV screens was the Marlins at Nationals. Like a good guest, I graciously asked our host, “Where’s the Mets game? I don’t want to watch the bleeping Nationals and [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Nationals, New York Expatriates, Scott Hairston, Willie Harris Eventually it happens — the tumblers align all wrong, and one Faith and Fear blogger has Saturday night commitments, and so does the other Faith and Fear blogger. So you know more about tonight’s game than does your chronicler, and if you want to stop right there, understood. I always feel guilty when I’m not at [...] In one of those misbegotten seasons when Daniel Murphy doesn’t leave too soon on Jason Bay’s sacrifice fly but Angel Pagan forgets to brush a foot over second, Pagan is out at first before Murphy gets home — and Murphy likely leaves too soon anyway. But the whole thing is moot because Bay strikes out [...] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Capuano, Daniel Murphy, Fun, Jason Bay, Reluctance, Willie Harris |
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