 
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. |
It took only 46 seasons for me to wonder if choosing the New York Mets as the defining passion of my life represented the right call. It took perhaps the most excruciating loss I’ve witnessed to date at Citi Field to push me to question this aspect of my existence. Saturday night was just perfect in […]  18 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1969 Mets, Bobbleheads, Chase Utley, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Kyle Farnsworth, Losing, Nolan Ryan, Phillies, Team History, Willie Mays I have so much to tell you. I don’t know where to start. He’s just some fan. What do you expect? So many games like Tuesday night’s. So many road trips like the one that has wound winless from Miami to Washington. So many […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Chris Farley, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Howie Rose, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Fans, Radio, The King Of Comedy, WFAN Something struck me while the Giants were being demolished by the Reds, 9-0, Sunday and the Nationals were getting stomped by Carlos Beltran’s Cardinals, 12-4, Monday: this never happens to us. The Mets have never been truly blown out of a postseason game. They’ve never lost one by eight runs. They’ve never lost one by nine […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Blowouts, Faint Praise Just for an instant, a halo formed around the 2012 Mets. It happened when Bryan Petersen swung through Bobby Parnell’s two-out, one-two pitch in the bottom of the ninth at Marlins Park early Wednesday evening. It was strike three, but Kelly Shoppach couldn’t hold onto it. Petersen dutifully took off for first, but Shoppach found […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 2012 Mets, 2013 Mets, Bobby Ojeda, Closing Day, Jeremy Hefner, Mets Fans, Scott Hairston How strange is it that it’s been 13 months since the Mets visited Wrigley? We say this every year, but it’s strange. Fuck interleague. More games against real rivals, harumph, harumph. That’s from the email exchange Greg and I had discussing who was recapping what in the Cubs series — a conversation I kept thinking about while […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1984 Mets, Cubs, Fans, Harry Caray, Hate, Wrigley Field The Patron Saints of Pleasant Surprise smile down approvingly on what they’re seeing in the standings today, for the current Mets are, in a statistical sense, at one with them. AFTER 70 GAMES For those who haven’t been scoring at home for the past several decades (or those prone […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1984 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2012 Mets, Pleasant Surprises, Team History He could have been elected mayor at this moment. If you didn’t make it to the ticker-tape parade the City of New York threw for its World Champion New York Mets in 1969, then by all means click right here for a delicious two-minute, forty-one second bite of it, courtesy of NYC Media. It’s […] 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 that includes the “best” 157th game in any Mets season, and we keep going from there until we […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Bob Murphy, Darryl Strawberry, Donn Clendenon, Dwight Gooden, Ed Charles, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Lindsey Nelson, Ron Darling, Rusty Staub, Team History, The Happiest Recap 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 that includes the “best” 139th game in any Mets season, the “best” 140th game in any Mets season, […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1984 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Ken Boswell, Leo Durocher, Team History, The Happiest Recap 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 that includes the “best” 133rd game in any Mets season, the “best” 134th game in any Mets season, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1985 Mets, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mookie Wilson, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver |
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