 
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. |
On Friday the Toronto Blue Jays made Jon Niese into their personal pinata, whacking him all over the ballpark. It was the worst start of his young career, a game that ended with Rob Johnson on the mound and doing a lot better than the guy he’d started the game catching. Today, Niese handcuffed the Pittsburgh […]  4 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dan Warthen, Jonathon Niese, Rob Johnson, Statistics Ike Davis is neither here nor there right now, which is a shame for Ike and a shame for the Mets. He’s not here in the sense of looking like he’s a part of a team when it’s having its ups, as it did Tuesday night behind R.A. Dickey’s 11 dancing strikeouts, and it’s become […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Ike Davis, James McDonald, Mike Nickeas, R.A. Dickey, Slumps I sensed trouble from the start. I’m not sure why I did — the ball Neil Walker hit to begin the bottom of the Pirates’ eighth wasn’t going out and wasn’t parachuting in. It was ticketed for short of the warning track, a quick trot at worst for either the left fielder or the center fielder. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Johan Santana, Mike Baxter, Pirates, PNC Park Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight runners the Mets had gotten into scoring position but neglected to score were lining up for a big, juicy bite of cosmic retribution. […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Canada, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Eric Thames, Frank Francisco, Mike Baxter, The Shawshank Redemption It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but given a punchless Mets lineup with too many dudes looking up at the Mendoza Line and David Wright […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blue Jays, Brian Knight, Howie Rose, Josh Lewin, Umpiring The Toronto Blue Jays? They still have those? That’s not meant to be a slam on the level of Bill Terry’s notorious “is Brooklyn still in the league?” or Charlie Dressen’s equally karma-busting “the Giants is dead!” But the dynastic Jays of the early ’90s and their dome that seemed so of the moment haven’t been front […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pecota, Blue Jays, Bob Geren, David Wright, Derek Bell, Dwight Gooden, Hideo Nomo, Position Players Pitching, Rob Johnson, Robert Carson, SCTV Jason and I took advantage of our self-employed status to enjoy an ad hoc self-employed businessman’s special at Citi Field Thursday afternoon. Our respective gaggles of gigs may not guarantee the most secure of financial existences, but when you can get up and go to a weekday afternoon game, I’d have to say there are […] Try to be cool and analytical all you want, but if you’re a fan eventually you’ll give in to fury and bloodlust. I’M NEVER ATTENDING ANOTHER GAME UNLESS THEY RELEASE LUIS CASTILLO BY MORNING! AARON HEILMAN MUST BE MAROONED ON A DESERT ISLAND WITHOUT EVEN A VOLLEYBALL FOR COMPANY! CHAIN DOUG SISK […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brad Emaus, D.J. Carrasco, Fans, Robert Carson, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins John Axford, the Brewers’ closer who looks enough like George Custer that he could spend the offseason taking part in re-enactments at Little Big Horn, recently blew a save and had to depart before facing to the media. So left behind an apologetic and rather charming note, one that ended with “Cliché… cliché… cliché… another cliché. […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | D.J. Carrasco, David Wright, Fans, Mike Baxter, Talk Radio, Terry Collins After re-editing the 1985 highlight video in such a manner to reignite the whole Roe v. Wade controversy (because it was such an abortion), SNY tries to make it up to us by presenting Mets Yearbook: 1962. It debuts Thursday night at 8:00 and reairs at 10:00, in concert with the channel’s 50 Greatest Mets […] |
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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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