 
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. |
Update: Audio! Now you can say TLDL instead of TLDR! Thought I’d post what I read at Varsity Letters’ fifth-anniversary shindig last week, for posterity but mostly because it’s a reflection on a Mets game we’d be better off to recall more often, particularly in these trying days. Odds are you’ll recognize it at once — […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2000 Mets, Braves, Fans, Hope, John Rocker, Memories, Mike Piazza, Shea Stadium, Superstition There are three postseason games scheduled this October 7. By definition, they are all lacking a certain something. What is it? Oh right — us. Once upon a time the Mets played postseason games on October 7. Once upon three times, actually…or thrice upon a time. However you measure it, let us recall the three best […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, Benny Agbayani, Jon Matlack, Sharon Chapman's Marathon Run, Steve Trachsel, Tug McGraw Just when you thought you’d never again see a 1998 Met in the big leagues — no one who knew the rare pleasure of dressing in the same clubhouse as Tony Phillips, Ralph Milliard, Todd Haney, Willie Blair and Jorge Fabregas — up stepped Jay Payton to emerge as this season’s Longest Ago Met Still […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Chen, Gary Matthews Jr., Jason Isringhausen, Jay Payton, Jeff D'Amico, John Thomson, Juan Acevedo, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scuatro, Melvin Mora, Mike Hampton, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Strickland, Team History, Ty Wigginton, Tyler Walker With the seventh pick in the first round of Major League Baseball’s First-Year Player Draft, the New York Mets selected…some kid. I wish him well. I wish to see him on the Mets before too long. Until then, Matt Harvey — RHP, UNC — is just a name to me, no more guaranteed of success than […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Armando Benitez, Atlantic City, Bill Caudill, Chris Donnels, Darryl Strawberry, Delino DeShields Jr., Draft, Expos, Howie Rose, Ken Griffey Jr., Mariners, Matt Harvey, Never Mets, Randy Johnson, Retirement, Shawn Abner, The Simpsons, The Waltons The Mets took a lead, held a lead and only made you think it possible, not probable, that they would blow the lead. Progress! A good win for the Mets over the Yankees at Citi Field Saturday night. A good win beats any kind of loss, though I have to say in the fourteenth season of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, Al Leiter, Armando Benitez, Beauty, Benny Agbayani, Bobby Valentine, Edgardo Alfonzo, Frankie Rodriguez, Jason Bay, Jenrry Mejia, John Franco, Joy, Mike Piazza, Pain, Rationalization, Rick Reed, Subway Series, Team History, Timo Perez, Turk Wendell, WFAN Having established that this decade was ultimately extraordinarily disappointing, it is only fair to point that a great deal of joy was collected en route to whatever wound up befalling us. No moment in these past ten years was more joyous, to my thinking, than that which marked the gaining and absorbing of our team’s […] In February 1998, Al Leiter became a Met. He couldn’t have been happier to join the team he said he rooted hard for during his childhood, which he once referred to as “the Mike Vail years”. This is really exciting for me. I feel like a little kid. All it took was Wayne Huizenga dismantling the World […] The year was 2000. I was 37. Or was I? I was in the fourth year of a stretch when I lived and breathed Mets baseball more than during any other period in my life. Wasn’t I supposed to get that out of the way when I was a child? Sure sounds childish. But in 2000, I […] Due to the length of our season, the story of 2000 is presented in three parts. Part I appeared in a previous post. Life would get no better if the Braves and Yankees continued to lurk. Lurk they did and down they could bring us. At the end of June and the beginning of July we […] Due to the length of our season, the story of 2000 is presented in three parts. This is the exciting conclusion. Parts I and II appeared in previous posts. In 1904, John McGraw, a baseball visionary if ever one lived, refused to play the World Series. There was no rule saying he had to and he […] |
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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