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” 79th game in any Mets season, the “best” 80th game in any Mets season, […]
 
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. |
 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, 2004 Mets, Don Young, Fiftieth Anniversary, Shane Spencer, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver Playing the Yankees is one of my least favorite parts of the season. The same goes for West Coast trips. Yet over a stretch of 30 hours or so, both turned out pretty nicely. I mostly missed the Mets’ marvelous, off-the-deck mauling of Mariano Rivera, as I was away with friends in Vermont in a place where […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dodgers, Jason Bay, Rubby De La Rosa, West Coast Trips Perhaps the cosmic forces could handle only so much suck for one Sunday. It was gloomy outside. It was gloomier on TV. The Mets were one out from being swept out of Citi Field by the last people you’d ever want to let near a broom. Jose Reyes was, for all we knew, playing phantom […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jason Bay, North America, O Canada, Ronny Paulino, Subway Series Things I Don’t Like to Think About 1. The Mets having to play the Yankees the third game of a Subway Series of which the Mets have already lost the first two-thirds at home. 2. The wait on MRI results for key Mets players who left their most recent game experiencing “tightness” in an essential segment of […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Injuries, Jose Reyes, La-La-La-I-Can't-Hear-You, Subway Series We don’t much like to admit it, but during Joe Torre’s long, successful tenure as the Yankees’ manager, most of us developed a deep respect for him. He was calm amid the typical Yankee typhoons of drama, deflected nonsense from his players consistently and gracefully, and rarely let the media hype around a moment change […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Derek Jeter, Eduardo Nunez, Hatred, Jerry Layne, Joe Girardi, Yankees 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” 76th game in any Mets season, the “best” 77th game in any Mets season, […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1985 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2008 Mets, Carlos Delgado, Fiftieth Anniversary, Keith Hernandez, Mike Piazza, Team History, The Happiest Recap Four of six on the road from a pair of division leaders in the big, bad American League? We’d all have taken it. Over .500 at the halfway point of the season? Back when we were 5-13 we would have taken that too. Someone was going to get hung with an L after four inspiring Ws. […] Perhaps only somebody who has spent the past fifteen months immersed in every box score of every game the Mets have ever won can truly appreciate the absurdity of absolutist statements along the lines of, “The Mets have never done anything like this!” The Mets have absolutely done things like what they’re doing during this Interleague […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 2005 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Angel Pagan, Hitting, Hot Streaks, Ronny Paulino, Team History In 1979’s Breaking Away, Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher) wants to race his bicycle in Indiana University’s Little 500, except Dave needs to be part of a team of four cyclists and none of his three fellow “cutters” (they’re not students at snooty IU, rather townies born and raised in Bloomington, thus the elements of conflict) […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Breaking Away, Franklin Roosevelt, Hymie Shorenstein, Jose Reyes, Staten Island Ferry, Team History I admit it, the only parts I heard were the boring parts. I got a late start on the evening, grabbing my iPhone as I dashed out the door. I fumbled my way into MLB At Bat and noted, with a certain cheerful approval, that it was already 2-0 Mets. Walking to pick up Emily in […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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