 
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. |
When I fell asleep last night, the first-place Mets had won their seventh in a row and held the best record in the National League. When I woke up this morning, the still first-place Mets had still won their seventh in a row and still held the best record in the National League. So this isn’t […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alex Torres, Buddy Carlyle, Carlos Torres, Dee Gordon, G. Gordon Liddy, Jacob deGrom, Marlins Are you supposed to know when you’ve been born again? Because I’m pretty sure I have been, fanwise. Somewhere between Thursday night, when I expected everything to go wrong but it didn’t, and Friday night, when it never occurred to me anything would go wrong and it didn’t, I underwent some kind of transformation. Perhaps Bartolo Colon […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Danny Muno, Juan Lagares, Reborn Mets Fan In most parallel universes, the Mets lost Thursday night. They had to. They were playing the Marlins. Giancarlo Stanton went traditionally deep. They were playing the Marlins. Martin Prado added his own four cents. They were playing the Marlins. Dillon Gee pitched gamefully but not quite well enough to fully extricate himself from his last tangle of trouble. They were playing the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ace Frehley, Curtis Granderson, Dick Rusteck, Dillon Gee, Eric Campbell, Giancarlo Stanton, Ichiro Suzuki, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, John Mayberry, Lucas Duda, Marlins, Martin Prado, Michael Cuddyer, Video Review, Wilmer Flores The Mets playing a relatively ho-hum game wasn’t the worst thing in the world, after the emotion and intensity and wall-to-wall zaniness of whatever that was last night. Of course, a ho-hum game is a satisfying thing provided you win. Which the Mets did rather handily. Some quick takes and then we’ll get on to the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Jonathon Niese, Lucas Duda, Milestones, Phillies Before the manager had to deliver the news that something “major” had happened to his indispensable player’s hamstring…before a backup catcher presumably said a prayer that nothing be hit to him in his unforeseen debut as a third baseman…before baseballs brushed back batters hither and yon…before replays weren’t reviewed even though it sure as hell […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alfonzo Marquez, Anthony Recker, Chase Utley, Citi Field, David Buchanan, David Wright, Harvey Day, Jeff Francoeur, Matt Harvey, Phillies, Terry Collins, Video Review In the first couple of weeks of April, emotions are subject to the perils of small sample size just like everything else. Win and you feel like your team is a lock to win 125 games, with various newcomers locks to hit .400, slug 50 homers, retire every tough lefty and turn every double play. Lose, and […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Fans, Home Opener, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Michael Cuddyer, Odubel Herrera, Phillies, Rod Kanehl In case you don’t remember, baseball is back. A week ago at this time, you could barely sit still in anticipation of its annual arrival. Now it’s part of the woodwork. I like the woodwork this way. I like baseball this way. I like when it keeps us company this way, embedded so smoothly into the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Michael Cuddyer, Nicknames, Reaction Shots, Unhealthy Obsession with Mike Hessman, Wilmer Flores For the first few games of the season happiness at having baseball back outweighs what actually happens on a given night. But then there’s a game that leaves you disgusted and sputtering profanities. Baseball, you think, is being very, very bad to you. For me, tonight was that night. It was Dillon Gee handing out doubles […] Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made physical errors, followed by multiple members of the team making mental errors. Those weren’t the fun parts. But these parts were pretty neat: back-to-back home […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrelton Simmons, David Wright, Jon Niese, Juan Lagares, Phil Gosselin, Rafael Montero, Wilmer Flores Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this eighth of ten installments, we swing by a year that we hope the current season evokes comparisons to real soon. They edged Washington to start their season. […] |
Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star by Greg Prince is available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online booksellers. 
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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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