 
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. |
When ninth-inning do-or-die situations arise this season, I hope Braden Looper is up for them. He was the most dependable Met all of last year and yet I still don’t quite trust him — maybe he was waiting for this year to start blowing games in earnest because he knew doing so last year would be a waste of […] OK, I’m better now. Y’know, for seven innings that was a helluva game. Unless they add Tar ‘N’ Feather a Dolan Night to the promotional schedule, Opening Day is the only date on the calendar in which you can lose — even if the loss is of the suckerpunch-and-sit-down-quick variety — and still think, “Man, I love baseball.” […] Today is the day we become who we are in earnest. Today is the day we are Mets fans in our natural habitat, the baseball season. Today is the day that past stays past and future runs far off because, at long last, we have a present with which to concern ourselves. Today is the day we continue […] So Victor Hall and Yusmeiro Petit joined forces to put us over the top in the latest chapter of our long struggle against the Washington Nationals…oh yeah, I forgot. Anyway, nice way to close out the exhibition season — I heard about half the game, and the D.C. fans sure sounded excited.Time for some post-Florida […] As we approach the mountaintop of The One Hundred Greatest Mets Of The First Forty Years, I glance around. I glance at the Cardinals and try to think very quickly of who some of their greatest have been: Stan Musial, Joe Medwick, Lou Brock, Bob Gibson, Pepper Martin. The Pirates: Roberto Clemente, Honus Wagner, Willie […] When I turned thirty, my family threw me a wonderful surprise party. The coup de grace was the presentation unto the birthday boy of a small silver box with a Mets logo taped to the top. In it were fifteen pairs of tickets. Thirtieth birthday, thirty tickets.Thirty tickets for the 1993 season.The first game was […] 45 degrees with a 25 MPH wind — sounds like DC will be fun tomorrow. I slept late, didn't realize the game was on the radio, and belatedly turned it on to hear muttering about Felix Heredia and news that Matt Ginter is gone, sent to Detroit in return for Steve Colyer, owner of a 6.75 ERA in addition […] I have to tell you that this wasn’t easy. Quite frankly, it was a task. You’d think selecting the Ten Greatest Mets of the First Forty Years would be fairly simple. Certain names come to mind immediately and their stories seem familiar enough. Immerse yourself into the proud history of this franchise, though, and what […] |
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Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History by Greg Prince (foreword by Jason Fry), is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. |
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