The temperature was in the 80s. The energy was out of the ’80s. I needed neither a weatherman nor a meter reader to know which way the wind was blowing or how much the juice was flowing. It didn’t take a meteorology degree to discern it was a warm summer day. You didn’t have to […]
 
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. |
 16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1986 Mets, Ceremony, Keith Hernandez, Mets Fans, Retired Numbers Jon Matlack believes we know what we’re talking about. I know that’s what he believes because I asked him and that’s what he told me. And who’s not gonna believe Jon Matlack, essential starting pitcher for the 1973 National League Champion New York Mets? At the press conference preceding Saturday night’s Mets Hall of Fame ceremonies, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Jackson, Brandon Drury, Carlos Baerga, Edgardo Alfonzo, Eugenio Suarez, Javier Baez, Jeremy Hefner, Joey Votto, Jon Matlack, Media, Mets Fans, Mets Hall of Fame, Press Box Decorum, Reds, Rich Hill, Ron Darling The word that keeps getting repeated by Mets and people around the Mets is “electric”. Citi Field, they say, is electric. They’re not referring to how the stadium lights are lit or how its loudspeakers are amplified. They’re describing the atmosphere with fans filling seats with their anatomies and the air with their exclamations. Capacity […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, 2021 Mets, David Peterson, Electric, Jake Marisnick, Mets Fans, Team History, Unplugged Sure, if you slow down video of somebody sticking his protectively guarded elbow in the general direction of a baseball passing otherwise untouched through the strike zone, it’s gonna look bad. So don’t do that. Instead, live in the moment of Michael Conforto’s right elbow instinctively jerking ever so slightly within the flight path of Anthony […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Bass, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Don Mattingly, Good Luck, Hit By Pitch, Home Opener, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Michael Conforto, Pat Jordan, Ron Kulpa, Starling Marte, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver, Umpires The Mets are about to begin their season and we Mets fans are about to begin it with them. I know we thought we’d be three games deep into this new year by now, but better late than never. What will 2021 bring? In terms of wins and losses, we’ll see. In terms of what stays […] A blink ahead of midnight on October 25, 1986, the lights nearly went out on the New York Mets’ quest for their second world championship, as Dave Henderson launched a home run that clanked off the Newsday sign above the extreme left field fence at Shea Stadium. It was the top of the tenth inning […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Documentaries, Mets Fans, Nick Davis Like Red on the bus to Fort Hancock, Tex., in The Shawshank Redemption, I found I was so excited at Citi Field as the Mets game wore on Wednesday night, I could barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it was the excitement […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2018 Mets, Cy Young, Dom Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fans, Michael Conforto, Ozzie Albies, Pitching Brilliance, September, The Shawshank Redemption Should there be a rain delay (or a pause for injury) tonight during the Mets-Padres game, flip over to your PBS affiliate at 9 o’clock EDT. Whatever the state of the skies, set your DVR accordingly, either for its premiere airing or later in the week when […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | American Masters, Documentaries, Mets Fans, Nick Davis, PBS, Ted Williams The sample size is only four Saturdays, but I can definitively report that it’s always colder the morning of the Queens Baseball Convention than it was at any point in the preceding week. Sometimes it snows. Sometimes it snows a lot. It snowed so much in 2016 that there was no QBC. That’ll happen in January. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Art Shamsky, Bobby Valentine, FanFest, Gil Hodges, Mets Fans, Queens Baseball Convention, Tim Teufel, Tom Seaver One of the umpires working the Mets-Marlins game in Miami on Sunday should have taken a moment from making an eventually overturned call and blown a whistle to order a stoppage in play after a couple of innings. Baseball doesn’t operate like that, but how could any Mets fan worth his parmesan dedicate all of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Leiter, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hall of Fame, John Franco, Mets Fans, Mike Piazza |
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