Good luck outguessing baseball: After kicking the ball around and losing two out of three to the Nats and then getting kicked around by the Yankees for a horrifying sweep, the Mets absolutely flattened the Tampa Bay Rays for a sweep of their own, turning an imminently horrific 1-5 road trip into a respectable 4-5 […]
 
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. |
 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Dave Hudgens, David Wright, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Lucas Duda, Omar Quintanilla From: Clueless Editor <cluelesseditor@limitedimaginationpublishing.net> Dear Mr. Plimpton: We are in receipt of your book proposal, The Curiouser Case of R.A. Dickey and regret to inform you it does not suit our needs at this time. While your lead character R.A. Dickey is richly drawn, and his […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | George Plimpton, Literary License, One-Hitters, R.A. Dickey, Sidd Finch, Team History It’s not a good sign when you miss nearly all of the Subway Series, then are relieved that your team has an off-day. I was at my 25th high-school reunion over the weekend, and so the Debacle in the Bronx was reduced to occasional bleary, baleful glowers at my phone, with the exception of a couple […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Jordany Valdespin, Keith Hernandez, Tropicana Field We know best-selling author R.A. Dickey is a person as well as a top-notch pitcher, and we like that about him, because it gives us one more reason to find him, as he likes to say, trustworthy. If you’d like to discover more R.A. for yourself, as I did, he’ll be signing copies of Wherever […] And this was before the Subway Series. Movies are almost always better when there’s a Mets element to them, whether it’s outsized, as in the key 1969 scenes from the current release Men In Black 3, or subtle, as in 1987’s Moonstruck, which had nothing explicit to do with the Mets back in the day […] We want the Mets to get up now… “I just kind of felt dead tonight,” said Dillon Gee after losing to the Yankees, 4-2. Didn’t we all inside? Didn’t everybody in a Mets uniform, with the possible exception of provisional savior Omar Quintanilla, look like Dillon felt? Enough playing dead. Rise from the dead already. It’s Sunday. It’s as […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, No Pulse, Omar Quintanilla, Subway Series As one who wasn’t keeping up on the Astros’ day-to-day machinations from 1994 to 1996 nor the Angel melodramas of 1997 to 1999, I have to admit I knew little about Terry Collins during his first two tenures as a major league manager, other than he looked kind of miserable in Houston and it ended […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Hiroki Kuroda, Johan Santana, Jose Reyes, Managing, Subway Series, Terry Collins Just a reminder to the Mets: Increasingly, we fans say we don’t particularly care about the Subway Series, that the novelty wore off long ago, that six games a year is too many, that Interleague’s an unnecessary disruption to baseball’s beautifully synchronized rhythms and that the whole thing is played out. These statements may accurately […] I’m off to Red Sox country for my 25th high-school reunion tomorrow, so today’s game was a radio affair while working, with Howie and Josh painting the word picture from their perch in the ionosphere above Nationals Park. With R.A. Dickey on the mound, the game passed by like the cool breeze from an ambling, […] “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing once more in frustrating fashion and falling a little further away from first place in the National League East, a perch nobody…nobody…envisioned […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Chris Schwinden, Daniel Murphy, Dillon Gee, Expectations, Ike Davis, Jeremy Hefner, Jon Niese, Jordany Valdespin, Josh Thole, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Lucas Duda, Reality, Rockheads, Ruben Tejada |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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