 
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. |
There’s a scene in a church in one of my wife’s and my favorite movies, The Commitments. A lady, dutifully scraping away at the hardened wax countless candles have dripped in the name of divine intervention, rhetorically asks, “If ya didn’t do it for God, who would ya do it for?” We were going to watch […]  16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2010 Mets, Ike Davis, Mets Fan Perspective, Mike Pelfrey, The Commitments So that was awesome. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies would be awesome any time. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies before a huge crowd is even more awesome. An 11-1 pasting of the Phillies to finish the halfway point of the season on pace for 88 wins is more awesome still, particularly since the Phils are in […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2009 Mets, 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Edgardo Alfonzo, Hope, Jonathon Niese, Ruben Tejada, Shane Victorino 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” 31st game in any Mets season, the “best” 32nd game in any Mets season, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1970 Mets, 1983 Mets, 2010 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Gary Gentry, Ike Davis, 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” tenth game in any Mets season, the “best” eleventh game in any Mets season, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2010 Mets, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jay Hook, Mike Pelfrey, Pedro Martinez, Team History, The Happiest Recap Yoo-hoo? Anybody miss me? After a month of insanity (finishing a Star Wars book, grueling new freelance gig), I can finally think once again about my beloved New York Mets. (Nod to the beyond-awesome Citi ad set in Istanbul.) So let me sally forth by looking back — and giving a slightly overdue welcome to the […] On a Sunday night in late August, viewers of Mad Men (whose season finale airs tonight at 10 on AMC) discovered Lane Pryce, British financial maven for ad agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, had tacked on his office wall a New York Mets pennant, the period-appropriate kind he might have bought at Shea Stadium or […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, 2010 Mets, Attendance, Leonard Koppett, Mad Men, Mets Marketing, Mets Pop Culture, Team History Yo DJ, pump this party! The song is called “I’m Gonna Get You,” a snappingly energetic dance number. I remember hearing it quite a bit on Z-100 in the summer of 1993 and enjoying it enough to purchase the 12-inch single. Very, very catchy. Listen to it for yourself here — if you’ve been attending Mets […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Bizarre Inc., Closing Day, Jerry Manuel, Oliver Perez Six years ago today, the Mets were proactively pulling the plug on one era in hopes of jump-starting the next one. At Shea Stadium on Sunday, October 3, 2004, the Mets were severing ties with their manager, inaugurating a new front office administration and putting the latest in a string of disappointing seasons to bed. Beyond […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, 2010 Mets, Closing Day, Jerry Manuel, Omar Minaya, Same Old Song One of the sadder things about elimination day is how you now know you’re going to have to wait another year for the possibility — and nothing more — that you’ll finally get those things you spend the offseason wishing for and the balance of the season rooting for. Elimination comes along and you’re forced […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, 2011 Mets, Bad News Bears, Mathematically Eliminated, Mets Fans From the Department of the Painfully Obvious, the New York Mets have been eliminated from postseason contention following their 5-2 loss to the Florida Marlins. Time of death: 9:38 PM EDT, but really, they’ve been done since Puerto Rico. Record before San Juan: 43-32. Record from San Juan on: 31-45. Autumnal equinox is tomorrow night. Very […] |
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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