 
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. |
Someday Spring Training will end, and when it does…what’s that? It’s over? More or less? Didn’t see that coming. Hallelujah, the Mets are done with grapefruits and slot machines at last, saving a couple of days here near March’s conclusion for un petit peu de poutine up Montreal way. Nice to pretend the Expos exist again for […]  13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2007 Mets, Aaron Sele, Anthony Seratelli, Brian Lawrence, Dan Wheeler, Dave Williams, Debuts, Farewells, Guillermo Mota, Jason Bay, Jeff Conine, Livan Hernandez, Omar Quintanilla, Orlando Hernandez, Rick Ankiel, Rod Barajas, Sandy Alomar, Scott Rice, Shawn Green, Team History, Tim Byrdak, Valentino Pascucci, Willie Collazo Five Mets who were never the shiniest available objects glistening in the display case of a given free agent market stopped being Mets altogether this week. Non-tendered as possible prelude to a purposeful pursuit of Curtis Granderson — or whoever can be lured for a lesser price and/or fewer years — were Justin Turner, Jeremy […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1974 Mets, 1994 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2007 Mets, Ambiorix Burgos, Bob Scheffing, Brian Bannister, Bubba Trammell, Buzz Capra, Curtis Granderson, Dallas Green, Donne Wall, Jeremy Hefner, Joe McIlvaine, Jordany Valdespin, Justin Turner, Momentary Lapse of Season Mets, Nontendered Players, Omar Minaya, Omar Quintanilla, Pete Schourek, Scott Atchison, Steve Phillips, Team History In five years’ time, we’ve gone from being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher who gallingly showed no emotion when his historically miserable first inning sealed our doom, to being officially eliminated behind a starting pitcher whose emotional brittleness over his historically miserable first inning was uncomfortably apparent. Either way, the Mets were dead then and […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Embarrassment, Jeremy Hefner, Mathematically Eliminated, T#m Gl@v!ne, Terry Collins Crazy how the baseball schedule sometimes does this: On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2012, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. On Thursday afternoon, August 30, 2007, the New York Mets finished a series with the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. The circumstances surrounding the respective one-run losses that […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Billy Wagner, Charlie Manuel, Coincidental Scheduling, Jimmy Rollins, Jon Niese, Kevin Frandsen, Kyle Kendrick, Lingering Dismay, Mike Baxter, Phillies, Scott Hairston, Ty Wigginton The Texas Rangers have my wholehearted admiration for doing one of the hardest things there is to do in baseball: getting to the mountaintop, tumbling off of it a step from its absolute peak and working their way back up to where they were a year before. No year-after hangover for the once-and-again American League […] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 142nd game in any Mets season, the “best” 143rd game in any Mets season, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2007 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tim Bogar Perhaps with more indisputable zeniths, I wouldn’t be so quick to recall the transitory peaks of life as a New York Mets fan. Whether it’s a 9-6 record in 1978 or 42-42 in 1980 or 53-38 in 1991 or 59-37 in 1984, those instances when the Mets got as good as they were going to […] Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 85th game in any Mets season, the “best” 86th game in any Mets season, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, 1995 Mets, 2007 Mets, Bret Saberhagen, Carlos Beltran, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jerry Koosman, Team History, The Happiest Recap Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 49th game in any Mets season, the “best” 50th game in any Mets season, […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1988 Mets, 2007 Mets, Armando Benitez, Dwight Gooden, Fiftieth Anniversary, Kevin Elster, Team History, The Happiest Recap Josh Thole loomed as Mr. Metaphor Saturday night, falling down rounding first and getting his eager ass tagged out on a throw-behind from Emilio Bonifacio to Gaby Sanchez in the seventh, then picking himself up, dusting himself off and lining the go-ahead single in the ninth. Turned out, however, Thole’s destiny was to serve as […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2011 Mets, Blaine Boyer, Bobby Parnell, Brad Emaus, Brett Hayes, Carlos Beltran, Chin-lung Hu, Chris Coghlan, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Frankie Rodriguez, Gaby Sanchez, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Logan Morrison, Lucas Duda, Mike Dunn, Mookie Wilson, Omar Infante, Redemption, Ryan Webb, Scott Cousins, Soilmaster Stadium, Terry Collins, Willie Harris |
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. 
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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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