 
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. |
It feels like a big deal, the Mets winning one of the 162 baseball games they’ll play this year. It shouldn’t. It shouldn’t but it does. Why, the Mets got great pitching from Dillon Gee, who looks like he’s shaken off whatever was ailing him to return to being a quietly effective pitcher, one of those guys […] Tuesday night in New York was lovely, cool and not too humid. A few passing thunderstorms growled overhead, offering a spritz of rain before departing and leaving luminous orange and pink clouds in their wake. I spent the evening at the game and had a marvelous time. A friend who couldn’t be there was kind […] Lousy team rebuilds, is mostly lousy while rebuilding. Organization has few resources available, all of which have been preserved for theoretical future allocation. Ownership group — never considered a franchise strong suit — remains somewhere between inept and abominable. Unproven players prove mostly inadequate. Manager and coaches haven’t made any of it materially better, yet can’t quite be held […] I keep telling you to find something better to do with your summer, and today I took my own advice: a friend offered me and my kid a ride to Rockaway Beach to swim and drink on another friend’s convivial porch, and I said yes pretty much instantly. Frozen drinks, friends and the beach? Screw […]  55 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Hopelessness, Ike Davis, Mike Baxter, Rob Carson, Sandy Alderson, Wilpons Sometimes you get what you wish for and then it doesn’t turn out so well for you, as it didn’t in this case. In the bottom of the fourteenth, I figured I was golden. David Wright was on first, but there were two out. Shaun Marcum was up. No way […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Aardsma, Extra Innings, Marlins, Matt Harvey, Rick Ankiel, Shaun Marcum, Team History, What a Terrible Team The Mets didn’t lose! Coincidentally, they didn’t play — their game against the Nats was washed away by the advance guard of Tropical Storm Andrea, which will also wash away tomorrow night’s game here against the Marlins. We’ve been saying for some time that you should make other plans, but this time we really mean […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bill Pulsipher, Dominic Smith, Fans, Wilbur Huckle As a former 35-year-old myself — I held the position for twelve months in the late 1990s — I am cheered by Marlon Byrd’s two home runs Wednesday night and the role they played in the Mets’ drubbing of the Nationals. Byrd is considered ancient, washed up, capable of playing for no better than a […] I have so much to tell you. I don’t know where to start. He’s just some fan. What do you expect? So many games like Tuesday night’s. So many road trips like the one that has wound winless from Miami to Washington. So many […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Chris Farley, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Howie Rose, Jimmy Qualls, Mets Fans, Radio, The King Of Comedy, WFAN Monday was one of the better days to be a Mets fan of late. Monday was also an off-day. It’s always bad when it gets to this point. It’s worse when this point arrives not in the second half of August, that cruel period that has a way of revealing your maybe-sorta-kinda-.500 club as a 72-win team, […] The funny thing is I’m not sure I actually know what Greg Dobbs looks like. Ask me to picture Chase Utley or Robinson Cano or Brian McCann or Ryan Zimmermann and I can instantly conjure a mental picture for you. Dobbs? I’ve got nothing except a general impression of squatness. But maybe that’s appropriate. Just as a […] |
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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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