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” tenth game in any Mets season, the “best” eleventh game in any Mets season, […]
 
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. |
 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1962 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2010 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jay Hook, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap Aaron Heilman has been thwarted in his latest attempt to make a starting rotation and will pitch in relief for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Adam Wainwright is officially on the 60-Day Disabled List. Oliver Perez is feeling his way through a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. Jeff Suppan has been released by the San […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Aaron Heilman, Adam Wainwright, Anniversaries, Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Gratitude, Jeff Suppan, Milestones, Oliver Perez, Regret, Team History, Yadier Molina Welcome to Flashback Friday: Take Me Out to 34 Ballparks, a celebration, critique and countdown of every major league ballpark one baseball fan has been fortunate enough to visit in a lifetime of going to ballgames. BALLPARK: Shea Stadium 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1985 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2008 Mets, Flashback Friday, Shea Stadium Funny how little you know about a baseball team until you spend some time focused on them. The San Francisco Giants, for example, disappeared from my radar screen the moment the Mets were mistakenly awarded a victory against them in the middle of July. And the Atlanta Braves? We saw them as recently as the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2010 Postseason, Billy Wagner, Braves, Edgar Renteria, Giants, Kyle Farnsworth, Mercenaries, Pat Burrell, Relief Pitching, Rick Ankiel, Troy Glaus There are three postseason games scheduled this October 7. By definition, they are all lacking a certain something. What is it? Oh right — us. Once upon a time the Mets played postseason games on October 7. Once upon three times, actually…or thrice upon a time. However you measure it, let us recall the three best […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, Benny Agbayani, Jon Matlack, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Steve Trachsel, Tug McGraw George H.W. Bush, one of six U.S. presidents to have served while a Wilpon has been running the Mets, once attempted to combat perceptions that he was oblivious to people’s problems by declaring, “Message: I care.” Bill Clinton, the president who succeeded him when that message proved unconvincing, famously empathized with Americans, “I feel your […] 26 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, Bill Clinton, Fred Wilpon, General Manager, George H.W. Bush, Hope, Jeff Wilpon, Jerry Manuel, Mets Managers, Omar Minaya, Ownership, public relations, Team History The Mets lost another dreary game on the Road Trip From Hell, walked off the field for the numbing, seemingly impossible 12th time this season. (The franchise record is 14, an unhappy distinction shared by the ’74 and ’78 clubs; the major-league record is an all-too-achievable 16, which befell the ’69 Giants and the ’75 […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, John Maine, Oliver Perez, Team History I’ve been dying to see the Mets play the Tigers in Flushing since a little before 8:00 PM on Saturday, October 14, 2006. Magglio Ordoñez had just hit a three-run homer to clinch a four-game sweep of the American League Championship Series in Detroit. We were minutes from commencing Game Three of the NLCS in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Faith and Fear Book, Interleague Play, Nagging Regret, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Steve Trachsel, Tigers, Tug McGraw Two annual rituals of the baseball season cross paths in the middle of every Met June: the instinctive recollection of monumental trades that took place this time of year in years gone by and the reappearance, via clever scheduling nobody asked for, of former friends and foes who now wear American League garb. It seems […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2003 Mets, 2006 Mets, Anniversaries, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Berenyi, Corey Patterson, Dan Norman, Dave Kingman, Doug Flynn, Interleague Play, Juan Samuel, Managers, Manny Acta, Nick Markakis, Pat Zachry, Paul Siebert, Sluggo, Steve Henderson, Tom Seaver, Trades, Ty Wigginton After Sean Green — who elicited the first visceral couch-to-TV reaction of 2010: “Get Sean Green the fuck off my team!” — gave up the laser shot home run to Dan Uggla in the seventh, building the Marlin lead to 6-1, I filed Tuesday night’s game in that one third you’re going to lose, per […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2006 Mets, Brian Giles, Fernando Tatis, First Loss of the Season After a Win, Gary Sheffield, Hisanori Takahashi, Jenrry Mejia, John Maine, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Sean Green, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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