One of the pleasures of this up-and-down season has been the work of Jon Niese. Like everybody else, his 2009 was wrecked by injuries — in his case a horrifying tear of a hamstring clean off the bone. Niese went down like he’d been shot, and it was probably June of this year before I […]
 
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. |
Aw, how can you get mad at these Mets for being, per coach Dennis Green, who we thought they were? We thought they were going to be not very good and now we are beginning to be proven fairly prescient. It was a heckuva first half. There may be some heck left in the second half. […]  19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1980 Mets, 1984 Mets, 2010 Mets, Alex Tevino, Cal Koonce, Craig Swan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Ed Glynn, Ed Lynch, Elliott Maddox, Expectations, Frank Taveras, Gary Carter, George Foster, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Jeff Reardon, Jesse Orosco, Joe Torre, Joel Youngblood, John Pacella, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Kobel, Lee Mazzilli, Magic, Mark Bomback, Mike Jorgensen, Mookie Wilson, Neil Allen, Pat Zachry, Ray Burris, Ray Knight, Roy Lee Jackson, Steve Henderson, Tom Hausman, Wally Backman On October 28, 1961, eight dignitaries in suits — including Mayor Bob Wagner, master builder Bob Moses and future villain Don Grant — plunged spades into the ground and touched off the beginning of construction on a project tentatively titled Flushing Meadow(s) Stadium. It took 902 days to get from ceremonial shovels to the first […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, 2008 Mets, Ballparks, Citi Field, Dana Brand, Flashback Friday, Jack Fisher, Keith Hernandez, Matthew Silverman, Michael Shapiro, Robert Moses, Shea Stadium, Team History 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. The last […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, 1984 Mets, All-Stars, Andy Hassler, Darryl Strawberry, Doc Ellis, Dwight Gooden, Flashback Friday, Jesse Orosco, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Pat Zachry, Steve Henderson 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. It was […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Flashback Friday, Keith Hernandez, Picture Day I don’t usually look at the Pennysaver. A pile of them, chock full of come-ons for discounted liquor, same-day service on dry cleaning and excellent prices on demolition and rubbish removal, is left in our lobby once a week and I walk right by without a glance. But a few weeks ago, the back page […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Atlantic City, Coin Galleries of Oyster Bay, Keith Hernandez, Mark Gastineau, SNY In 1986, Keith Hernandez, 32, told William Nack of Sports Illustrated, “I most fear boredom and loneliness, life after baseball. Life after baseball equals boredom and loneliness. I don’t want to be a 50-year-old guy sitting and drinking beer in some pickup bar with younger people. I’ve seen it. I don’t want to be that.” In 2007, […] Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 2006 National League Eastern Division Champion New York Mets. Twenty years. Countless Fridays. This is one of them. As I recall my beloved 2006 Mets here one more time from the vantage point of two decades on — just as I’ve been […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Carlos Beltran, Endy Chavez, Flashback Friday, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Oliver Perez, Sid Fernandez Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years. Forty-three Fridays. This is one of them. You know who wanted the Astros to beat the Mets in 1986? George Bush. Both of them. The elder Bush was the vice president at the time. His home away […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 NLCS, Bob Knepper, Bobby Ojeda, Charlie Kerfeld, Danny Heep, Dave Smith, Dwight Gooden, Flashback Friday, Gary Carter, George H.W. Bush, Jesse Orosco, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Bass, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Scott, Nolan Ryan, Philip Roth, Rick Aguilera, Roger McDowell Welcome to Flashback Friday, a weekly feature devoted to the 20th anniversary of the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. Twenty years, 43 Fridays. This is one of them. Shame on me for listening to WFAN, particularly when it’s before 5 but after 4 in the morning. Shame on me for retaining anything any caller says, […] |
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