Terry Collins is right: the Mets are in every game lately. They’re the ones watching the players on the opposing team congratulate each other on yet another close victory. Close in terms of final score, anyway. The sense that the Mets will find a way to give up an extra run that will ultimately kill […]
 
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. |
 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dismay, Familiar Sensation, Losing Streak, Rockies, Terry Collins, Troy Tulowitzki 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 consisting of the “best” seventh game in any Mets season, the “best” eighth game in any Mets season, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2009 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jackie Robinson, Ray Knight, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver “It’s just another ballpark to me,” Jason Isringhausen told reporters before he pitched for the first time at Citi Field. “But to put the ‘Mets’ across your chest, it’s pretty special.” The destruction of the temple kind of took the edge off the symbolism in Izzy’s comma-confirming homecoming Monday night. It would be a lot more […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, 1996 Mets, Jason Isringhausen, Mercury Mets, Past, Relief Pitching, Rockies Some of you nice Faith and Fear readers occasionally make the gracious comment that you’d like to buy us a beer the next time you see us at Citi Field. Well, we’re ready to take you up on your generous offer, but we don’t want a beer from you, per se. We don’t even want […] I’m striking a bargain with the 2011 Mets. The arrangement is one I’m confident they can live up to. It goes like this: You don’t have to play for anything this year, but you do have to keep playing. I made this deal with them in the ninth inning of their dreary Home Opener loss to the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hustle, Mets Home Opener, Ralph Kiner, The Pajama Game 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 consisting of the “best” fourth game in any Mets season, the “best” fifth game in any Mets season, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 1984 Mets, 2005 Mets, Al Jackson, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap Goodbye to the road. Goodbye to Whatever It’s Called Stadium in The Middle of Nowhere, Fla. Goodbye to that LandPhil where fly balls grow jet-packs in flight. Goodbye, for now, to Roy Halladay who doesn’t seem to mind pitching in that silly little bandbox. Goodbye to early evidence that we can hold our own against […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2011 Mets, Citi Field, Home Opener, Idealization, R.A. Dickey, WFAN If I hadn’t recognized the onslaught of orange by sight, my posterior would have know that texture of plastic anywhere. It was a 100% genuine Shea Stadium seat, one of four aligned against the front window of the Pine Restaurant at the Holiday Inn LaGuardia on 114th Street. Positioned as it was, it meant that […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Hitting Pitchers, Mets Fan Philosophy, Phillies, Pitchers Hitting, Shea Stadium SNY is breaking out the good stuff, Thursday night at 6:30. It’s the return of Mets Yearbook, and the edition they’re opening is 1969. Is there anything else you need to know? I don’t think so. Image courtesy of kcmets.com. 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 consisting of the “best” first game in any Mets season, the “best” second game in any Mets season, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Carter, Jerry Koosman, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tommie Agee |
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