 
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. |
Hopefully, even though years ending in 7 and 2 have produced zero Mets titles, it won’t result in a series of bad trips. I wrote that on January 5, slightly smug in the notion that for once, we would see a year that ends in a 7 or 2 produce a playoff season. I was wrong. Sorry […] From the top of the Top 500: 10. There isn’t a Spinners’ radio hit from their halcyon and gorgeous period between 1972 and 1976 that doesn’t flat out make me happy. None makes me happier than One Of A Kind (Love Affair). 9. As I approach Merrick Road, make the next song Baby Baby by Amy Grant. Nothing […] Relieve the Greatest Hits of 1986, as told in Flashback Friday throughout the 2006 season…. Overture Le Bel Age Mad About You Human Higher Love Danger Zone Sanctify Yourself When The Heart Rules The Mind Live To Tell The Sweetest Taboo We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off The Rain Absolute Beginners Manic Monday When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going One Hit to the Body Sledgehammer The Next Time […] It occurs to me that for all the references I make to the One Hundred Greatest Mets of the First Forty Years, they have never been presented all at once in one handy-dandy post. So let’s do that today. For those of you who weren’t with us last March and April when we counted ’em down, you […] And here we are at last. The Ninth Circle of Met Hell. In the Inferno, the Ninth Circle is a frozen lake, at whose center Dante and Virgil find Satan, trapped in the ice and chewing on Brutus, Cassius and the head of Judas Iscariot. The deepest part of Met Hell, however, does not look like […]  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Best of FAFIF, Bobby Bonilla, Disappointment, Mets Hell, Vince Coleman The year was 2005. I was 42 years old. But you already knew that. After these past eight months, I can’t imagine there’s much more that you don’t already know about me or the Mets, whether you wanted to or not. They were playing just a week ago and me, I haven’t shut up about it since. […] |
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