Jonathon Niese endured. Ike Davis awoke. David Wright served the main course to one lucky Acela Club patron. The Florida Marlins learned that no one — and I mean no one — comes into our house and pushes us around (hubris not applicable on final days of seasons). And while all this was going on, […]
 
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. |
 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1977 Mets, 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, Acela Club, Bad Luck, Bernie Williams, Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, Duke Snider, Gary Sheffield, Gil Hodges, Home Runs, Ike Davis, Injuries, Jimmy Sheckard, John Milner, John Stearns, Jon Niese, Kelvim Escobar, Mark Teixeira, Mel Ott, Mickey Mantle, Mike Jacobs, New Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Renovated Yankee Stadium, Rod Barajas, Rudy, Shea Stadium, Steve Henderson, Steve Zabriskie, Team History, Tim Jordan, Washington Park, Yankee Stadium Four for four: the Mets went 4-for-4 today. They resumed baseball activities with a bang. The long-rumored, long-postponed, long-hidden Mets Hall of Fame announced its class for 2010, its first class in eight years, and it’s a doozy. It’s so good I have this feeling I’m writing one of those “wouldn’t it be nice?” fictional blog […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Dwight Gooden, Frank Cashen, Mets Hall of Fame, Team History The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we’d have nothing more to sate our […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Eddie Kunz, Fernando Martinez, Gregg Jefferies, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jay Payton, Jeff Kent, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Gonder, Jon Matlack, Jon Niese, Ken Boswell, Lastings Milledge, Mike Pelfrey, Mookie Wilson, Omir Santos, Philip Humber, Prospects, Roger McDowell, Ron Swoboda, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Topps All-Rookie Team, Ty Wigginton Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. The last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, 1984 Mets, All-Stars, Andy Hassler, Darryl Strawberry, Doc Ellis, Dwight Gooden, Flashback Friday, Jesse Orosco, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Pat Zachry, Steve Henderson Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. It was […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Flashback Friday, Keith Hernandez, Picture Day Watching TV through Met-colored glasses so you don’t have to… In the 1979-80 season of The White Shadow, situated at a fictional ghetto high school in Los Angeles (and delved into on DVD over yet another baseball-starved weekend), members of the Carver basketball team said they were headed to “Crenshaw” to watch the cheerleaders practice, heh-heh. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Mets Pop Culture, White Shadow 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. Yay! Darryl Strawberry is coming to Old Timers Night! Unless he’s changed his mind again. If he has, would you be surprised? Of all the things that have changed […] It has to mean something that up here in the grimopolis that is February in New York, a nasty afternoon shower has given way to a rainbow outside my office window. Not a metaphorical — or even a METaphorical — rainbow, but an actual Judy Garland-lovin’ arch o’ stripes in the eastern sky. If pitchers and […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Carlos Beltran, Darryl Strawberry, First Posts, Spring Training |
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