When the Wild Card was introduced into baseball in 1994, the Mets were mostly hopeless, yet this extra playoff spot allowed me a touch more hope. So I invoked the 14th Amendment (or perhaps it was Rule V) and decided that if the Mets were five out of the Wild Card at the end of […]
 
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. |
 23 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, 2011 Mets, Contenders, Jason Middlebrook, John Thomson, Keith Hernandez, Mark Little, Pretenders, Steve Reed 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” 22nd game in any Mets season, the “best” 23rd game in any Mets season, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, 1972 Mets, 2002 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jack Fisher, Shawn Estes, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Willie Mays Just when you thought you’d never again see a 1998 Met in the big leagues — no one who knew the rare pleasure of dressing in the same clubhouse as Tony Phillips, Ralph Milliard, Todd Haney, Willie Blair and Jorge Fabregas — up stepped Jay Payton to emerge as this season’s Longest Ago Met Still […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Chen, Gary Matthews Jr., Jason Isringhausen, Jay Payton, Jeff D'Amico, John Thomson, Juan Acevedo, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scuatro, Melvin Mora, Mike Hampton, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Strickland, Team History, Ty Wigginton, Tyler Walker Friday night was an extraordinary pitchers’ duel. The only thing that would have made it perfect would have been a better result, both in terms of reversing the identities of the winning and losing teams and if Johan Santana had, like Yovani Gallardo, pitched all nine innings in the process. This is not a rant about […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1996 Mets, 1997 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2005 Mets, Cory Lidle, Don Cardwell, Dual Complete Games, Gary Gentry, Glendon Rusch, Jack DiLauro, Jerry Koosman, Jim McAndrew, Johan Santana, Mike Maddux, No-Hitters, Nolan Ryan, Paul Wilson, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martinez, Relief Pitching, Rick Reed, Ryota Igarashi, Shawn Estes, Starting Pitching, Takashi Kashiwada, Team History, Tom Seaver, Wayne Granger, Yovani Gallardo Ben Sheets won’t be a Met. Didn’t think he would be, and I wasn’t thinking he should be except for a song. Instead, the dude got himself an entire $10 million opera (albeit an opera whose running time is just one year). I’m not crushed. Think of the last time the Mets counted on somebody […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Ben Sheets, Johan Santana, John Smoltz, Jon Garland, Mo Vaughn, Orel Hershiser Omar Minaya heard it was Fred Wilpon’s thirtieth anniversary as a Met owner. For a gift, he thought about what the chairman and CEO had; didn’t have; and once had but had no longer. Omar was intrigued by the last category. Surely, he thought, there was something Fred once held in his collection, regretted not […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Brian Stokes, Gary Matthews Jr., Gary Sheffield, McKay Christensen, Recidivst Mets, Team History One of your Mets trivia staples is, “Name the Mets players who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.” For the longest time, you had but four names to memorize if you wanted to answer in full: • Yogi Berra, inducted 1972 You understood each of these […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Duke Snider, Eddie Murray, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Nolan Ryan, Richie Ashburn, Rickey Henderson, Roberto Alomar, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra If five years suddenly feels a lot more like a half-decade, then it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. It was a simple plan. In the bottom of the sixth, I was going to stand up when the leadoff batter came to the plate. I was going to clap. Applaud, really applaud. It would […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Closing Day, Edgardo Alfonzo, Flashback Friday When we paws to remember those who made our world a more joyous, more loving place, it’s Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear and Flushing. The Aikens family of Seneca, S.C. had the right idea. One fall day in 1954, not long after the New York Giants swept the Cleveland Indians for the world championship, they […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Casey the Cat, Cats, Flashback Friday, The Spinners Batting cleanup in any order: Casey The Cat. Get a load of that tongue! It was like something you’d find on Shaquille O’Neal’s left sneaker. How long was it? It was so long that half the time Casey couldn’t seem to stick it back in his mouth. Or maybe he just liked to have it ready […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Casey the Cat, Cats, Flashback Friday |
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