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Greg Prince and Jason Fry
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.

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As in '69 and '86, We Have a Winner

Congratulations go out to David Anderson, Jr., who dug up all 20 correct answers to our Flashback Friday quiz. He wins the A&E Home Video release, The New York Mets Vintage World Series Films DVD, featuring the 1969 and 1986 triumphs to end all triumphs…except, hopefully, for another triumph that will arrive in short order. The disc is graciously provided by A&E, which can tell you how to purchase it for your baseball library.
He also gets the KT Tunstall CD Eye to the Telescope because my wife and I each bought on a copy on the same day and I'm too lazy to return mine.
A “well-played!” to Ray Stilwell, a.k.a. Metphistopheles, for sending in a very entertaining set of answers, 19 of which were dead on, one of which got tangled in a legal interpretation, a concept with which I'm guessing he's familiar. I know he's intimately familiar with his Mets postseason history, which you should read here. Ray has earned a Wild Card prize to be determined by the judges.
The answers…
1. What did my mother refer to Danny Heep as?
A dunner
2. Where did Joel and I go for lunch when Opening Day II was rained out?
Chi-Chi's
3. What did Mr. Jarvis at the hobby shop trade Geoff Hayton for a ball autographed by the '86 Mets?
Santa Cruz dots skateboard wheels
(This was where Ray got tripped up. He said it was a skateboard, which was pretty close, but wheels are wheels. Either way, Mr. Jarvis best start running the other way right quick, for in addition to living in the shadow of Geoff's grudge, he has just earned a lifelong enemy in the Buffalo area.)
4. Who didn't expect her husband to take his shoes off after a game?
Margie Backman
5. What was the theme of the 1986 Old Timers Day?
The Mets' 25th Anniversary
6. When the ticker-tape parade crowd began booing Mayor Koch, who did he start to introduce?
The Board of Estimate
7. What distracted Larry Russo from witnessing Ray Knight's walkoff hit off of Tim Burke?
A paper airplane
8. Who referred to Keith Hernandez as “dark, reflective, analytical, urban”?
Pete Hamill
9. What movie did Fred and I want to see instead of Stand By Me?
Reform School Girls
10. To what tune did I compose my own idiotic Super Bowl XXI song parody, “Giant Steps to Pasadena”?
“Walk Like An Egyptian”
11. What pitcher's name did I invoke to shut up Danny the Yankee fan in Tampa?
Britt Burns
12. Who spiked Jason's foot in St. Petersburg?
Wally Backman
(As Ray noted, “See what happens when you're not used to taking your own shoes off?”)
13. What was Dwight Gooden's ERA in the 50 starts that preceded his first loss of 1986?
1.38
14. In what 2006 film does the main character declare, “I hate the Mets”?
Game 6
15. By what nickname did I refer to Rick Aguilera in my journal entry of July 23, 1986?
Rick “Rock Me” Aguilera
16. What brand of gasoline did Gary Carter endorse?
Northville
17. Why did my friend Chuck tell me he rooted for the Mets?
For my sake
18. What was the Newsday back page headline that captured the essence of the age in June of '86?
Ho-Hum. Another Win.
19. What was the front page headline of El Diario on September 18, 1986?
CAMPEONES
20. Which six seasons attempted to haunt me on one particular Friday?
1971, 1976, 1981, 1991, 1996, 2001

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