“Some people never got over the sixties, or the war, or the night their band opened for the Rolling Stones at the Marquee, and spend the rest of their days walking backwards; I never really got over Charlie. That was when the important stuff, the stuff that defines me, went on.”
—Rob Fleming, High Fidelity, by […]
 
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. |
 27 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, 2011 Postseason, Anniversaries, Endy Chavez, Getting Over It 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” 157th game in any Mets season, and we keep going from there until we […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bob Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, Donn Clendenon, Dwight Gooden, Ed Charles, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Lindsey Nelson, Ron Darling, Rusty Staub, Team History, The Happiest Recap Sunday I watched a team that wasn’t expected to get as far as it did, one that overcame all kinds of skepticism to take the baseball world by storm. It was thrilling seeing them step up and prove their doubters wrong. What a great story! Yes, I finally got around to seeing Moneyball. How about those […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Moneyball, Paul DePodesta The Texas Rangers have my wholehearted admiration for doing one of the hardest things there is to do in baseball: getting to the mountaintop, tumbling off of it a step from its absolute peak and working their way back up to where they were a year before. No year-after hangover for the once-and-again American League […] You ever flip around while watching TV and discover some prime time show you’ve always liked is on in syndication five or six times a night and you start getting into it all over again? That’s the postseason to me right now. These games are as much fun as 30 Rock reruns, except I technically […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Relief Pitching, Tony La Russa The wedding of my longtime friend Fred to his new bride Karla (“my first wife,” he jokes) was a joyous event for Stephanie and me to attend last weekend, both for the nuptials of two fine people and the opportunity to spend time with other friends with whom I go back decades. Joel, Adam and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gordie Richardson, Jim Hickman, Moment of Silence, No-Hitters, Thomas DeLuca, Tom Seaver (As possibly occurred at Mets’ Dominican minor league instructional camp, following the 1999 season. Translated from the original Spanish.) “All right everybody settle down. We’re going to take a break from our regular drills to talk about situational fundamentals.” “Situational fundamentals, Mr. Minaya?” “That’s right. I’m down here from New York in my capacity as senior assistant general […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2011 Postseason, Nelson Cruz, Robin Ventura I’ve been kind of busy drinking and dancing this weekend, and speaking of which… Mets fans! Mets fans! 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Brewers, Cardinals, Phillies, Sheadenfreude Joe Girardi just made another pitching change. He’s penciled in NOBODY to start for the Yankees on Saturday. But he’s probably not going to leave him in very long. Thank you, Detroit Tigers. We may not have much these October nights, but we sure have you. Happy Elimination Day, Metsopotamia and all the ships at sea. Enjoy […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Elimination Day, Overmanaging, Sheadenfreude, Tigers The Cardinals keep drawing well in the intolerability seedings. No way under most circumstances imaginable would I have pulled for them to have captured the Wild Card, but their opponent was the Braves. Advantage: Cardinals. After they clinched that, I thought I couldn’t possibly have pulled for them to capture their current NLDS. But their […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Lesser of Two Evils, Phillies, Yadier Molina |
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