Welcome to the second installment of MY FAVORITE MET SEASONS, FROM LEAST FAVORITE TO MOST FAVORITE, 1969-PRESENT, a continuation of the project I introduced on my birthday. The ten seasons spotlighted below I liked a little more than the dozen I counted down on December 31, not as much as the thirty-three that are still […]
 
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 |  1971 Mets, 1989 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2004 Mets, 2011 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, 2018 Mets, 2021 Mets, Brad Emaus, Danny Frisella, David Aardsma, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Jason Pridie, Jimmy Carter, Jose Reyes, Ken Singleton, Lance Johnson, Leroux, LFO, Lou Grant, Murray Head, My Favorite Seasons, My Least Favorite Seasons, New Kids On The Block, Rosalynn Carter, Tim Teufel, Todd Hundley, Willie Harris 1976 was the first year I collected baseball cards. I’d peruse rack packs — three blisters of cards, the top and bottom player in each blister visible through the plastic — at the local stationery store or McCrory’s at the Smith Haven Mall. I was searching for the maize-and-blue banners that, at least in 1976, denoted […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1991 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Baseball Cards, Rich Sauveur, The Holy Books How historic is the ongoing fall from grace the Mets will seek to halt this evening versus the Orioles (at 17-41, as ideal an opponent for that sort of task as one could request at this moment)? Consider that the 2018 Mets were ten games above .500 […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2018 Mets, Anthony Swarzak, Draft, Falls From Grace, Jarred Kelenic, Simeon Woods-Richardson, Team History, Ten Over, Three Under, Todd Frazier Some nice person to whom I had just been introduced in the Citi Field parking lot on Opening Day asked me, regarding the 81 games that were about to be played in the building adjacent to where we stood, “Do you have a plan?” “Yes,” I said, matter of factly. “My plan is to go to […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1991 Mets, Barry Jones, Dave Magadan, Dennis Martinez, Dwight Gooden, Garry Templeton, Grand Slams, Jordany Valdespin, Kevin McReynolds, Priorities, Scott Ruskin Since it seems to come up every couple of years (as it did here), Billy Crystal wore the Mets cap in the 1991 film City Slickers not because he was an unprincipled high-profile frontrunner in the Spike Lee vein, but because the Mets promoted and pledged a large sum of money to Comic Relief in 1990. I’m not […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 1991 Mets, Billy Crystal, Celebrities, City Slickers, Comic Relief 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” 25th game in any Mets season, the “best” 26th game in any Mets season, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2004 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Howard Johnson, Mike Piazza, Team History, The Happiest Recap This isn’t a piece on the Mets and Bernie Madoff, but as explained somewhere below, it was inspired by the current mishegas surrounding those unfortunately linked bedfellows. There is no literal tie between the 2011 mess and what it brought to mind — it’s just that something occurred to me in the wake of what’s […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 1991 Mets, Al Harazin, Creativity, Decline and Fall, Doc the Video, Dwight Gooden, Hubie Brooks, Intrinsic Sense of Doom, Nobody beats the Wiz, Vince Coleman The Mets are so far out of first place in the National League East that I woke up Sunday realizing I never bothered to check how Atlanta did on Saturday (they won, natch). They’re behind everybody you don’t want to be behind for the Wild Card, and have a few teams closing in on them […] After Sean Green — who elicited the first visceral couch-to-TV reaction of 2010: “Get Sean Green the fuck off my team!” — gave up the laser shot home run to Dan Uggla in the seventh, building the Marlin lead to 6-1, I filed Tuesday night’s game in that one third you’re going to lose, per […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2006 Mets, Brian Giles, Fernando Tatis, First Loss of the Season After a Win, Gary Sheffield, Hisanori Takahashi, Jenrry Mejia, John Maine, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Sean Green, Team History Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them…sort of. So I’m sitting here sorting through more 1986 memories. Just like that, it’s 27 Fridays down and only 16 Flashbacks to go. So much Baseball Like […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1971 Mets, 1976 Mets, 1981 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 1996 Mets, 2001 Mets, Flashback Friday |
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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