 
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. |
I believe there’s a reason above all others that Ed Kranepool resonates like no one else in the Met mythology: He was here from the first year through the eighteenth year of the franchise uninterrupted. Ed Kranepool’s entire Mets career (his entire major league career, for that matter) can be expressed via a simple en-dash. Ed […]  10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bartolome Fortunato, Bill Pulsipher, Bob L. Miller, Bobby Bonilla, Cleon Jones, Comma Mets, Daniel Murphy, Dave Kingman, Ed Kranepool, Hubie Brooks, Jason Isringhausen, Jim Gosger, John Franco, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Mitchell, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Jacobs, Mike Jorgensen, Nolan Ryan, Pedro Feliciano, Punctuation, Recidivst Mets, Rusty Staub, Team History, Tim Foli, Tom Seaver, 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 Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin’ or not, here it comes. One win. […] Another award season has come and gone, and the Met display case has been modestly enhanced. Two Gold Gloves, for Wright and Beltran; another shiny Silver Slugger for Wright and his 124 RBI — man on third/nobody out notwithstanding; one semi-official Comeback Player of the Year for Fernando Tatis (Sporting News version, not MLB's)…nice, unobtrusive […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dave Kingman, Milt May, MVP Voting, Team History |
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