 
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. |
I got chills several times on Saturday afternoon. The weather was beautiful, but there was something else in the air. A distinct hint of Strawberry. Darryl Strawberry’s No. 18 was retired by the New York Mets, the sixth time in the past nine seasons that the franchise has raised a number to the rafters. In the […]  3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, Aging, Chills, Darryl Strawberry, Mark Vientos, Pete Alonso, Retired Numbers, Sean Manaea I wish I had brought some string with me. An enormous spool of string. Had I, I could have offered some to each player I saw in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room Sunday morning and asked him to align himself just so in order to form the most Amazin’ live-action Immaculate Grid you could […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Doc Gooden, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Gary Carter, Harrison Bader, Jose Butto, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Torrez, Rafael Santana, Rain Delays, Retired Numbers, Roger McDowell, Royals, Teammates, Uniform Numbers Is it too soon to say we’re living in a golden age of Mets baseball? How about one that is thus far untarnished? By winning in Miami on Saturday behind Tylor Megill (starting in place of Justin Verlander), Mark Canha (homering like he’s Pete Alonso) and a bullpen cast of thousands (none of them presented by […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1986 Mets, Not Losing Streak, Over .500, Team History, Willie Randolph, Winning Ways The Mets win most of the games they play, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they just won two of three in Washington and five of six on their road trip and eight of nine overall. That’s what teams that win most of the games they play do by definition. It’s a pretty good […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2022 Mets, Best Mets Team Since 1986, Chris Bassitt, Daniel Vogelbach, Mychal Givens, Pete Alonso The temperature was in the 80s. The energy was out of the ’80s. I needed neither a weatherman nor a meter reader to know which way the wind was blowing or how much the juice was flowing. It didn’t take a meteorology degree to discern it was a warm summer day. You didn’t have to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Ceremony, Keith Hernandez, Mets Fans, Retired Numbers Following Friday night’s 7-3 victory over the Angels, the 2022 Mets are 39-21 after sixty games. Here is a comprehensive list of every Mets team that had as good a record or better than the current edition at the same juncture in its season: 1. 1986: 44-16 That’s it. That’s the list. It may not feel as if […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2022 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Edwin Diaz, Mark Canha, Pete Alonso, Team History, Tylor Megill, Unsurpassed Records The Mets soared over Citi Field this past week, swooping home between excursions west and scooping up a six-game winning streak, demolishing Philadelphia, destroying Washington and , from a distance, demoralizing Atlanta. On Wednesday afternoon, they completed their perfect Flushing stand by shutting out the Nationals, 5-0. Colombian Carlos Carrasco pitched in front of his […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 2006 Mets, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Luis Guillorme, Season of Healing, Tomas Nido, Win Certainty Keith Hernandez filled the hole between the two and four spots in the batting order for seven Met seasons. He filled holes between himself and either the first base line or the second baseman on balls that seemed destined for the outfield. He filled the hole in the knowledge base of one promising young pitcher […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Keith Hernandez, Retired Numbers, Team History Later this week I’ll be along with the Tenth Annual awarding of the Oscar’s Caps, recognizing the year in Mets Pop Culture. But one Mets pop culture sighting in particular was too big to confine to a sentence or paragraph amid a catalogue of other, albeit worthy sightings (all Mets pop culture sightings are worthy), […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, ESPN, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Mets Pop Culture, Mookie Wilson, Nick Davis, Spike Lee A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill |
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