 
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. |
Anyone who knows Dan Quayle knows that, given a choice between golf and sex, he’ll choose golf every time. The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue arrives in my mailbox every February to no particular anticipation or fanfare. Certainly its contents are well put together, and I wouldn’t argue they don’t merit an objective hubba-hubba! and a […]  7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1964 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1987 Mets, Amado Samuel, Baseball Cards, Brooklyn Decker, Bud Harrelson, Dan Quayle, Dominican Republic, Frank Taveras, Jose Reyes, Kathy Ireland, Kathy Ireland in a Mets Cap, Marilyn Quayle, Mets Cap, Mets Pop Culture, Mets shortstops, Sammy Samuel, Sports Illustrated, Swimsuit Issue, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Tony Fernandez Recovering quickly from the disappointment of the Jets not making the Super Bowl, I turned, per usual, to HBO at 9 o’clock Sunday night for Big Love, the hourlong drama that follows the trials and tribulations of a Polygamist family in Utah. If you haven’t seen it, you’re missing a lot (literally — huge cast, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Sheets, Big Love, Mets Pop Culture, Mets Suber Realization #84,024 That You Are a Hopeless Met Geek: At the beginning of “I Am Legend,” the not-at-all-bad Will Smith postapocalyptic thriller Emily and I saw last night, we’re fed exposition about how an anticancer treatment becomes a virus that turns people into Yankee fans retarded, ultraviolent zombies who live in packs. We’re brought up to […] Sesame Street came along a little too late to be of any use to me. It debuted while I was in first grade, when I already knew how to count, so my reaction to it was quit talking down to me, damn it (I also already knew how to curse). But because it was billed […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Pop Culture, No-Hitters, Sesame Street, Tom Seaver I am saddened to report that the Mets are faring no better in fiction than they are in reality this offseason. Keeping an eye out for any appearance by our logo or laundry in the popular culture, I sat through an ABC telepic Sunday night called Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom’s For One More Day. With […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Mets Pop Culture, Michael Imperioli, Mitch Albom, Oprah Winfrey, Uniforms If you’re flipping through channels and come upon a rerun you haven’t watched in a long time, then it must be Flashback Friday at Faith and Fear in Flushing. No fictional character in the popular culture — not Sidd Finch, not Chico Escuela, not Oscar Madison — has done more to enhance the Metropolitan legend than […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, Expos, Flashback Friday, Mets Pop Culture, Olympic Stadium, Seinfeld Watching TV through Met-colored glasses so you don’t have to… In the 1979-80 season of The White Shadow, situated at a fictional ghetto high school in Los Angeles (and delved into on DVD over yet another baseball-starved weekend), members of the Carver basketball team said they were headed to “Crenshaw” to watch the cheerleaders practice, heh-heh. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Darryl Strawberry, Mets Pop Culture, White Shadow By now, it’s as intrinsic to the home game experience as the apple, the Italian sausages and the expansive parking. It’s too clever and stirring to have ever become wallpaper but also a little too out-of-context to be completely appreciated when we’re exposed to it. It’s delivered regularly by the only Finch — sorry, Sidd […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Howard Beale, Joe Wallis, Mad as Hell, Mets Pop Culture, Network, No-Hitters, Tom Seaver “I’m going to Port St. Lucie, which may not mean anything to you, but happens to be the spring training home of the…” “New York Jets. Yes, you’ve told me. Josh, you can watch basketball on TV.” “Yes, except the New York Knicks are a basketball team, the New York Jets are a football team and Port […] 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. Maybe DiamondVision was right. Maybe when it infamously and prematurely congratulated the Boston Red Sox on winning the 1986 World Series, it didn’t jump the gun. Maybe […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1986 World Series, Flashback Friday, Mets Pop Culture |
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