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” tenth game in any Mets season, the “best” eleventh 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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2010 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jay Hook, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap If a restaurant you liked had gone downhill, you’d understand if it had changed hands and a sign appeared in its window that declared UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. And unless you were personally attached to the people who used to run the place, you’d approve of the change and look forward to an improvement. You’d certainly […] Terry Collins is right: the Mets are in every game lately. They’re the ones watching the players on the opposing team congratulate each other on yet another close victory. Close in terms of final score, anyway. The sense that the Mets will find a way to give up an extra run that will ultimately kill […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dismay, Familiar Sensation, Losing Streak, Rockies, Terry Collins, Troy Tulowitzki Actually the Mets aren’t 4-70. They’re 4-7, which is considerably different — smack dab in the middle of “small sample size” territory, within the bounds of which no wise person draws conclusions. And even if you can’t resist the temptation, a bit of further, mostly non-quantified reflection should be enough to coax you off the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Daniel Murphy, Disappointment, Perspective, Rockies, Uniforms, Willie Harris 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” seventh game in any Mets season, the “best” eighth game in any Mets season, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2009 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jackie Robinson, Ray Knight, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver “It’s just another ballpark to me,” Jason Isringhausen told reporters before he pitched for the first time at Citi Field. “But to put the ‘Mets’ across your chest, it’s pretty special.” The destruction of the temple kind of took the edge off the symbolism in Izzy’s comma-confirming homecoming Monday night. It would be a lot more […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1995 Mets, 1996 Mets, Jason Isringhausen, Mercury Mets, Past, Relief Pitching, Rockies Some of you nice Faith and Fear readers occasionally make the gracious comment that you’d like to buy us a beer the next time you see us at Citi Field. Well, we’re ready to take you up on your generous offer, but we don’t want a beer from you, per se. We don’t even want […] Mike Pelfrey’s ERA is 15.63. He’ll get another start tomorrow. And another one four days after that. And so on for a reasonable distance into the future. Blaine Boyer’s ERA is 10.80. He threw 119 pitches this year. His Mets career is presumably over: He was designated for assignment after yesterday’s debacle, a 3-2 Mets lead […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blaine Boyer, Booing, Chris Young, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Jason Marquis Even for my baseball-obsessed family, it was a wall-to-wall day. Saturday began with the annual Little League Parade, an exercise in genial chaos in which a rainbow of teams assemble on a block of 1st Street whose residents I imagine make sure to be out of town this particular weekend, then march down 7th Avenue to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn, Carlos Beltran, Chris Capuano, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins I’m striking a bargain with the 2011 Mets. The arrangement is one I’m confident they can live up to. It goes like this: You don’t have to play for anything this year, but you do have to keep playing. I made this deal with them in the ninth inning of their dreary Home Opener loss to the […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hustle, Mets Home Opener, Ralph Kiner, The Pajama Game |
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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