A sense of finality hovered over the Mets on Tuesday night. Last series of the proving-ground stretch versus the Dodgers and Giants, a span in which they’ve mostly proven they are almost if not quite completely done contending. Last serious shot, with 38 games to go from a distance of 6½ out of first, to […]
 
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. |
 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, 30 for 30, Charlie Watts, ESPN, Francisco Lindor, Heath Hembree, Last Chances, Moment of Silence, Nick Davis, Tylor Megill First off, it didn’t rain. Anybody ready to take that for granted in the middle of a season when it anecdotally “always” rains? Chance of scattered thunderstorms, the forecast warned. I stuffed my disposable poncho I never dispose of and my portable Mets umbrella that I try not to use because then it would get […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Aaron Loup, Citi Field, Edwin Diaz, Jeff Keppinger, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Promenade, Rich Hill, Trivia Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Looks back at the ’86 Mets often pair Wally Backman with Lenny Dykstra, his fellow partner in grime (and co-star in the ’86 year-in-review video’s super-cringey “Wild Boys” montage). Which makes sense: Backman and […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1984 Mets, 1986 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Martin, Brandon Nimmo, Darryl Strawberry, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Earl Weaver, Lenny Dykstra, Managers, Minor Leagues, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Wally Backman They were 89 moments in the sun, 89 moments under the spotlight, 89 days and nights of our lives when little else mattered to us. I mean more than usual. “The Mets go melodramatic in October,” Roger Angell once wrote. “It’s in their genes.” Here we inspect the DNA and report the findings. Here we do […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2016 Mets, Mets Postseason Games, Team History Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When I was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which made a lot of sense: I loved baseball and writing, so why not put the two together? But I […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Beane, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Daulton, Dave Smith, Fenway Park, Lenny Dykstra, Marty Noble, Oil Can Boyd, Phillies, Ron Darling, Wally Backman Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. One day in the spring of 1987, I chatted on the phone with my mom. This wasn’t noteworthy — I was a senior in boarding school, and in the era before cellphones we’d take turns […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Andre Dawson, Calvin Schiraldi, Charlie Kerfeld, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter, John Boccabella, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Randy Sterling A blink ahead of midnight on October 25, 1986, the lights nearly went out on the New York Mets’ quest for their second world championship, as Dave Henderson launched a home run that clanked off the Newsday sign above the extreme left field fence at Shea Stadium. It was the top of the tenth inning […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Documentaries, Mets Fans, Nick Davis Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. The 1986 Mets laid waste to the National League, closed bars, got arrested, wrecked planes, raised a prodigious amount of hell and opponents’ ire, got into fights, won most of those fights, defeated the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Gary Carter, Keith Hernandez, The Log Faith and Fear has the finest readers anywhere, we say with total objectivity, thus we thought we’d let you fine people about some Mets-related projects a few of our friends on the other side of the screen have lately crafted or are in the midst of crafting. • Michael Elias has published the relationship-driven novel Two […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Brooklyn Dodgers, Documentaries, FAFIF Readers, James Schapiro, Mets Pop Culture, Michael Elias, Nick Davis Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell |
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