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 […]
 
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. |
 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bunting, Distasteful Pleasures, Drew Storen, Mathematically Eliminated, Rick Ankiel, September, 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” 139th game in any Mets season, the “best” 140th game in any Mets season, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1984 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Ken Boswell, Leo Durocher, Team History, The Happiest Recap The New York Mets wish to thank New Era and Major League Baseball for setting aside standard uniform regulations so Mets players and coaches could honor the bravery and courage of New York’s first responders and service agencies in memory of the lives given so selflessly in the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001. The […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Caps, Community, MLB, Terry Collins, Todd Zeile I’ve been watching the reading of names at the Ground Zero memorial. What gets me, besides the cruel endlessness of the list and the heartbreaking personal codas family members send skyward to those they lost, is the sheer randomness of it. People who happened to be in the wrongest place at the wrongest time — […] 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 “Everything changed” after September 11, 2001. No need to delve deeply into the litany of all that implies. But to keep it relatively light, has “everything changed” when it comes to going to a Mets game? I mean once you endure security’s dutiful searches, wandings and pat-downs…and salute the Veteran of the Game…and are asked a […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, 2011 Mets, Constancy, Jorge Toca, Justin Turner, Mets Fans 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” 136th game in any Mets season, the “best” 137th game in any Mets season, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1996 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver Tuesday night’s Mets-Marlins extra-inning affair at beautiful Joe Robbie Stadium dripped on until about one in the morning (or as they call it in the Bronx, prime time). Then, about twenty minutes later, or so it felt, there was a Wednesday night Mets-Marlins affair at the same facility whose turf, it saddens me to report, […] 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” 133rd game in any Mets season, the “best” 134th game in any Mets season, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mookie Wilson, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver “The Marlins celebrated when it was over. I have always felt bad for them because they were a good team and no one came to watch them play. Now I was glad that their stadium was always empty, that they were last in the majors in attendance. I hoped that they would languish unloved and […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballpark Goodbyes, Joe Robbie Stadium, Marlins |
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