As we endeavor to complete our 62nd two-game winning streak — and execute our 104th one-game winning streak — of 2006, I think I’ve finally figured out the deal with this team, specifically why every win has us staking out prime viewing spots on Lower Broadway and every loss has us dissecting traffic patterns 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. |
Wow. Wow. It’s possible I’ve never been so tired. The email came this morning: Two tickets for tonight’s game. $150 each. By the time it got to me it was a decent-length chain of emails, no guarantee the tickets were even still around. And then there was that shocking price tag. But still. Emily said she thought I should go. […] The next time I look at this page, I'll know how much our collective faith this season and this day has paid off. Whatever happens at Shea Stadium tonight, it hasn't been for naught. The next time I look at this page, I’ll know how much our collective faith this season and this day has paid off. Whatever happens at Shea Stadium tonight, it hasn’t been for naught. Until I see you again, Let’s Go Mets. Something has changed within me Something is not the same I’m through with playing by the […] Welcome to a special pre-Game Six edition of Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Welcome to a special pre-Game Six edition of Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This, because sometimes it’s imperative that you go on short rest, is one of them. Stupid Grape Nut Flakes. I’m never eating them again. What the […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Bill Buckner, Flashback Friday, Mookie Wilson Great news! We've already done what we need to do tonight and tomorrow night 61* times in 2006. Great news! We’ve already done what we need to do tonight and tomorrow night 61* times in 2006. 1. April 6 and 7. 2. April 7 and 9. 3. April 9 and 11. 4. April 11 and 12. 5. April 12 and 13. 6. April 13 and 14. 7. April 16 and 17. 8. April 25 and 26. 9. April 26 and 28. 10. April […] There was a GM in Gotham who sent his manager to the Midwest to win two out of three, and in a little while the manager came back, pale and trembling, and said, “Omar, just now when I was in the Midwest I was jostled by a man wearing red in the stadium and when […] |
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