“Operator, please connect me with 1982,” Randy Travis yodeled on a country hit in 1986. “I need to make apologies for what I didn’t do.” I think it’s fair to say Randy Travis wasn’t a Mets fan, for in 1986, nobody wanted to make a call to the season that crumbled so definitively four years […]
 
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. |
The 2010 Mets are a temporary condition. Mets fandom, however, is a lifetime proposition. Some dispatches from around Metsopotamia, most of them showing us again that blue and orange waters run deep. • Faith and Fear reader Tim Hanley wrote in to let us know he and his home movie of Ron Swoboda’s Game […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1982 Mets, Bill Mazeroski, Bing Crosby, FAFIF Shirt, Gary Sheffield, Howard Megdal, Ken Burns, Matthew Silverman, Moment of Silence, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Tug McGraw, Wayne Twitchell If the meaningless games in March take on occasionally deeper meaning, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. “The baseball exhibition! The baseball exhibition!” That was my roommate talking. He didn’t know anything about baseball, but he knew that the proper phrase was “exhibition game,” a nugget that had thus far eluded […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1982 Mets, Al Lang Stadium, Flashback Friday, Spring Training If we’ve found something more disturbing than the reportedly imminent inking of Chan Ho Park on which to dwell, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. Brace yourself. The Mets got George Foster. Brace yourself. The Mets got one of the most…no, the most dangerous hitter in the game. Brace yourself. The Mets […] If memories were all I sang I’d rather drive a truck —Rick Nelson It’s Friday. I’m having a Flashback. So what else is new? Nothing’s new, actually. This has been our quietest transaction winter to early January since 1997-98 when we were waiting our turn to pick through the wreckage of the Florida Marlins’ self-immolation until we could […] If memories were all I sang It’s Friday. I’m having a Flashback. So what else is new? Nothing’s new, actually. This has been our quietest transaction winter to early January since 1997-98 when we were waiting our turn to pick through the wreckage of the Florida Marlins’ self-immolation until we could scoop […] |
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