 
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. |
I thought I’d be excited to be going to the first Mets’ postseason game ever at Citi Field. I am, but I have to confess that element of this Met October journey — our ballpark’s first BIG moment — is not quite registering with me. Utleygate is all I’ve been thinking about Metwise since Saturday night. […]  30 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Postseason, Citi Field, Eff Chase Utley, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, R.A. Dickey Good news for all you kids out there. You can now play baseball any way you like. The rules don’t apply. Just slam into middle infielders at will. You don’t even need to be on your way to second base. You do this, and you and your team shall be rewarded handsomely. That’s my takeaway after […] 76 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Marlon Anderson, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Travesty, Umpires, Zack Greinke A while back I declared that we’d already won, and anything else that came our way would be lagniappe — games stolen from wintertime. That wasn’t an attempted reverse jinx (though I’m far from above such things) — I meant it. The postseason’s a crapshoot but gets all the attention; the regular season’s the prize, but the […] 52 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Clayton Kershaw, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dodgers, Fans, Fear, Jacob deGrom, Joy, Pedro Baez Every day between October 20, 2006, and October 8, 2015, had something in common. For those 3,276 consecutive days spanning exactly 468 weeks, the New York Mets did not play a postseason baseball game. The total is a little misleading since the vast majority of those days featured no postseason baseball games, but enough of […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Carlos Gomez, Chris Young, Collin McHugh, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, R.A. Dickey Regardless of what the Trade Winds told us in the mid-1960s regarding the plight of displaced Southern California surfer boys, New York’s an awesome town when you’re the only baseball team around. Welcome to the autumn of our municipal content, the one featuring the Mets and, as of the completion of the Houston Astros’ shutout victory […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Elimination Day, New York, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude, Team History Back in June, Emily and I decided that a lovely summer night would be made even better by our attending a ballgame. So we did … and watched the Mets get no-hit by Chris Heston and the San Francisco Giants. I grumbled and groaned for competitive and aesthetic reasons. The competitive reasons for not wanting my […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Billy Beane, Chris Heston, Dodgers, Max Scherzer, Nationals, No-Hitters, Panic City Several times this winter, I’ll sigh and tell my wife how I’d do anything to watch any baseball game — even say, a June snoozer pitting the Brewers against the D-Backs. I’ll mean it, of course — nothing comforts me while staring out the window and waiting for spring. Not winter ball, not Mets Classics, not hot-stove […] There have been 17 champagne celebrations for team accomplishments in New York Mets history. This is a scene from the 17th. Indulge me, Mets fans who weren’t viewers of Mad Men, as I channel Don Draper delivering — à la Matt Harvey on Saturday in Cincinnati — the most impressive pitching we had ever seen […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Division Clinching, 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Complete and Utter Lack of Collapse, Mad Men, Monty Python, The Commitments
It’s not a new story any more. In fact it’s a well-worn tale on its way to becoming a cliche. But that’s the fate of stories that resonate with people, that mean something. And this one does. It’s the one I keep coming back to. And it’s worth hearing again. It’s the story of Wilmer Flores, sent […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2015 Postseason, David Wright, Faith, Fans, Matt Harvey, Terry Collins, Wilmer Flores A Nationals loss cut it from three to two. A powerful Mets win — Syndergaard, Duda and Granderson at the forefront — sliced it from two to one. That’s where the magic number stands now. With one more Mets win or one more Nats loss, the Mets will have officially qualified for the postseason. With one […] |
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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