 
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 Saturday we threw a party to watch the Belmont Stakes. I enjoyed the bourbon a little too enthusiastically, fell asleep before the Mets starting playing and woke up hours after the game was over. It was the best Mets experience of my week. Today’s game wasn’t quite as infuriating a gag job as Saturday’s, but it followed […]  22 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Young, Sandy Alderson, Travis d'Arnaud, Wilmer Flores “All right guys, we have to get a few more of these in the can before the next homestand, so I appreciate you coming in early on a Sunday. Just like always, stare directly into the camera and show the enthusiasm that got you this gig. And…action!” “Branden, I’m so excited about what the Mets are […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alexa, Bonehead Baserunning, Branden, Losing, Mets Promotions Well, for 10 minutes or so that looked like a nice ballgame. The Mets looked like they might get no-hit by Matt Cain, but escaped that indignity when Ruben Tejada slapped a single beyond the extremity of where a shortstop can field it. Hooray for a hit, but could they score a run? They’d need to, because […] Beautiful Wrigley Field isn’t quite so beautiful when it is lit by electric as opposed to natural means. Ever since the Mets had their lights turned out on August 9, 1988, losing to the Cubs in what became Wrigley’s first official night game (following a rainout the ballyhooed night before), it seems mostly bad befalls […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1989 Mets, An Appreciation, Andrew Brown, Dallas Green, Don Aase, Don Zimmer, Eric Campbell, Jeff McKnight, Mike Conforto, Moment of Silence, Noah Syndergaard, Rick Wrona, Third Base, Wrigley Field For that, I need the Mets to keep playing well against lousy competition and hold their own against mediocre foes, to say nothing of taking on the big boys of the NL. I need to watch a lineup that scares somebody other than me. I need a whole lot that this team shows no signs […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Bullpen, Cubs, Don Zimmer, Keith Hernandez, Terry Collins, The Holy Books It’s not surprising that they lost. Losing is what they do. They’ve lost more often than they’ve won as a matter of course for five going on six seasons. On May 31, 2009, buoyed by a week of having played teams who seemed indisputably lousier than them (Washington and Florida), the New York Mets stood seven […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arietta, Losing, Nate Schierholtz, Team History, Zack Wheeler The 2014 Mets have their problems, goodness knows — tepid hitting, shaky defense, ever-shrinking payrolls, changing stories and omnipresent drama. But at least they aren’t the 2014 Phillies. My word. The snarky term in vogue for what the Phillies are is “tire fire,” and it’s a good one — tire fires are gag-inducing, visible for miles and hard […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Matt den Dekker, Phillies, Ruben Amaro Jr., Wilmer Flores Aesthetics aside, the Mets’ extended residency in Philadelphia is going pretty well: three of four games have been captured, with one still waiting to be bagged. We’ve seen what Jonathon Niese can do for eight innings when his bullpen needs as much of a blow as he can provide it, we’ve seen how far Lucas […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, AJ Mass, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Juan Lagares, Mascots, Mr. Met, Nickelodeon Extreme Baseball, Phillie Phanatic “It doesn’t work that way,” I had to explain to my sister over dinner out when she inferred I must really be enjoying how long these baseball games my baseball team has been playing, including the one I was listening to while she was talking. “You probably wish they’d last eight hours!” she said, as innocent […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, A.J. Burnett, Anniversaries, Bobby Abreu, Buddy Carlyle, Ed Sudol, Jacob deGrom, Jeff Manship, Jeurys Familia, Marathons, Pace, Team History |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
Amazin' Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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