 
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. |
Welcome to Flashback Friday: Tales From The Log, a final-season tribute to Shea Stadium as viewed primarily through the prism of what I have seen there for myself, namely 371 regular-season and 13 postseason games to date. The Log records the numbers. The Tales tell the stories. 7/2/82 F Philadelphia 3-1 Swan 7-14 W […] booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo /deep breath booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo /stare at own feet Something about the way the sun hits Shea in late afternoon when almost everybody's gone home appeals to me. Probably because it reminds me of the playground at East School. That's where I did most of my balling, if you could call it that, in my youth. It's where I played kickball and stickball and […] The Mets were pretty darn fired up. And eventually they were ready to go…though by the time they were ready, a good bit of the thrill had already gone. Mike Pelfrey, that ol' sonofagun, clear outpitched Brandon Webb Wednesday night. It was a performance to behold as I listened to much of the first eight innings […] Dear Mets and Mike Pelfrey, Wanna start converting some skeptics into believers? Beat the best pitcher in the National League tonight. Your opponent, lifetime at Shea: 4 starts, 2 wins, 1 loss (a 2-1 affair in which Victor Zambrano went deep, throwing the game of his life), 29 innings pitched, 29 strikeouts, 5 walks, 18 hits, 1 earned […] Happy 25th birthday to No. 7 in your program and he who turned in maybe the No. 1 most exciting offensive season any Met has ever produced. May Jose Reyes return to playing the real game of baseball well enough to inspire many video sequels. We should be careful not to read too much into an isolated incident, but it stood out for me as a metaphor for a Met career that had veered off track and still wasn't quite where it needed to be. On April 15, Jose Reyes was having one of his periodic breakout games, one of […] We're facing the Diamondbacks after sleepwalking (and sometimes plain old sleeping) our way through the Padres. We're gonna lose. Wait! Delgado came through with a clutch hit! And hustled to second! His uniform is filthy! Then we're gonna get rained out. Whoa, we're up 5-1 and will definitely get to an official game before the rain gets here! Then the […] Sometimes you must feel you didn't ask for this, that 2008-style Met mediocrity was thrust upon you. You don't remember seeking out the Mets, yet they came and helped themselves to your brain. You're a Mets fan for so long you can barely remember why anymore. Sometimes it's helpful to hear from someone who sought it […] Our friend Alastair Burgess, citizen of New Zealand, Japan and Metsopotamia, steps outside and shows off the four retired numbers of the New York Mets on his Faith and Fear t-shirt at Koshien Stadium, home of Tsuyoshi Shinjo’s alma mater, the Hanshin Tigers. Al (whose Shinjoesque orange wristbands are not pictured) informs us Koshien, built in […] |
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Volume I of The Happiest Recap: 50+ Years of the New York Mets As Told in 500+ Amazin' Wins by Greg Prince is available in print and for Kindle on Amazon. 
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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