When the Mets are on a TV near you as a matter of course, which I grant you isn’t often this month, it’s swell to sit down and watch, but it’s not what I’d classify a treat. A steady diet of even the tastiest dessert — and what are Gary, Keith and Ron if not […]
 
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. |
 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1983 Mets, Friday Nights, Joe Walsh, Pizza, Postponements, Tampa Bay, Yearnings Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. There’s a new world comin’ If I have one certainty as a Mets fan, it’s that no […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Darryl Strawberry, Draft, Hope, Sports Illustrated, Tom Seaver, Tucker Ashford, Youth The upset of the season occurred Sunday afternoon as I was upset — mildly, but palpably (if not Papelbon) — that the brink-of-elimination Mets were defeated by the cusp-of-clinching Red Sox. The two teams may play in the same quadrant of the country, but they’ve hardly competed […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Chris Sale, Fan Groove Back, Hope, Jack Reinheimer, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Red Sox, Righteously Annoyed, Seth Lugo Remember when Jose Reyes not getting hits and Matt Harvey not getting outs were the Mets’ only pressing problems? Good times. The Reyes some of us stubbornly love and remember returned Saturday night in Atlanta, tweeting playfully “Jose Reyes will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, Braves, Bullpen, Dave Kingman, Hadji the Cat, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Long Season, Matt Harvey Tom Seaver returned from M. Donald Exile (a.k.a. Cincinnati) on April 5, 1983, and though it was as if order had been restored to Shea Stadium, one element of the Metsian universe had been disturbed. The home uniform Tom donned for his triumphant restoration as king of our hill had been notably altered. The emperor’s […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1992 Mets, 2-3 Starts, Darryl Strawberry, Jim Henderson, Ken Henderson, Racing Stripes, Rickey Henderson, Ron Darling, Small Sample Sizes, Sports Illustrated, Steve Henderson, Team History, The Simpsons, Tom Seaver, Uniforms, Willie Randolph, Yoenis Cespedes Vast stretches of the current season could have served nicely as an All-Star break. Four days? The Mets could’ve taken off almost any four weeks there for a while and not have been much missed. But now? Now that we’ve decided we love them again? Now that they’ve decided to express their affection for us […] Rules I can’t believe baseball maintains: 1) The bit about transferring the ball from the glove to the hand after the ball is effectively caught. 2) Allowing Matt Harvey to face mere mortals. Both items worked to our advantage Sunday, so sure, we’ll take ’em. There’s really nothing illegal or immoral about pitching Harvey every fifth day, though […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1981 Mets, 1983 Mets, 2000 Mets, Ben Revere, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Matt Harvey, Stylemaster Each Matt Harvey start transports me to a better place — a better place than third, even if the Mets have been stuck there since well before he came up and will have to keep what’s left of their act together to remain there. (Hard-to-believe fact: the Mets, despite losing 20 of their last 28, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, 1983 Mets, Matt Harvey, MercyMe, Paul Maholm, Six Feet Under, Winning Tonight at 7, prior to the pregame show, SNY takes us back to the bridge linking the fetid past with the promising future via Mets Yearbook: 1983. The campaign in question yielded the Mets’ seventh consecutive terrible record (68-94) but ended on a reasonably high note (31-29). More foretelling, the season marked the Met debuts […] 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” 109th game in any Mets season, the “best” 110th game in any Mets season, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1983 Mets, 1998 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Ken Boswell, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Turk Wendell, Walt Terrell |
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