 
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. |
Sunday afternoon’s Met affair amounted to an absolutely aggravating abomination of a 3-2 defeat at the hands of the fucking Marlins, the victors’ most accurate appellation. How absolutely aggravating was this game that started at 12:05 PM, itself aggravating? Let me count some of the ways. Mark Vientos should have scored in the first, but was […]  11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Anthony Recker, Billy Joel, Roku, Team History, The Odd Couple For Saturday, it will be City Connects getting our attention. On Friday, it was what we might quaintly refer to as a national telecast. Or should we say a globally available stream? Whatever it is called, it was Cardinals at Mets on Apple TV+, which meant the visuals (even if you took advantage of the […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Apple TV+, Billy Joel, Bothsidesism, Cardinals, Catchers, City Connect, Francisco Alvarez, Identity, Jerry Grote, Joni Mitchell, Jose Butto, Tomas Nido, Zack Short She said she’d meet me in the bar “6:30 at apple?” landed like a fresh breeze in my inbox Monday evening, a few hours before the person who sent it appeared to all but permanently […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1994 Mets, 1995 Mets, Apples, Billy Joel, Brandon Nimmo, Daniel Vogelbach, Danny Mendick, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Long Time Coming, T.J. McFarland I’m assuming the five-day interregnum between the conclusion of the League Championship Series and the commencing of the World Series was built into the postseason by MLB this year to give us time to get used to the nearly unfathomable presence of the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2022 Fall Classic. But here we are, four days […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, 2022 Postseason, Billy Joel, Brad Hand, Don Buddin, Noah Syndergaard, pH Factor, Phantom Pain, Phillies, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. They swept away all the streamers Eight years and a day ago, Johan Santana faced 32 St. Louis Cardinals. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, 2012 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Billy Joel, Dates, Johan Santana Major League Baseball, assessing myriad proposals, has discussed a radical plan that would eliminate the traditional American and National Leagues for 2020, a high-ranking official told USA TODAY Sports, and realign all six divisions for an abbreviated season. […] The plan would have all 30 teams returning to their spring training sites in Florida and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Joel, Bob Nightengale, Quarantines, Schemes, Stephanie Apstein Sunday afternoons and Citi Field haven’t gotten along in 2017. Far be it from me to horn in on the middle of their mysterious feud, but sometimes you gotta go where you gotta go, and on this last home Sunday afternoon of the 2017 season, I went to Citi Field. It was not like asking […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Billy Joel, Bobby Darin, Dominic Smith, Fan Appreciation Weekend, Hansel Robles, Jack Hamilton, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Juan Lagares, Max Scherzer, Phil Evans, Quality Starts, Rafael Santana, Sundays, Victor Robles It hit me one March day, when they were apart, how long they’d been together. Yadier Molina was captaining Puerto Rico to the finals of the WBC. Adam Wainwright was working out his kinks against the Mets on the East Coast of Florida. Soon enough, they’d reunite, accomplished battery, same team, another year. Two baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, An Appreciation, Billy Joel, Cardinals, Longevity, Yadier Molina, Zack Wheeler Zack Wheeler, 27; first major league appearance, June 18, 2013 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Joel, Clayton Kershaw, Gavin Cecchini, Jay Bruce, Jose Reyes, Paul McCartney, Rafael Montero, Zack Wheeler For the longest time, I adored our cats Hozzie and Avery, yet had a hard time thinking of them as “our cats”. “Our cats” meant Bernie and Casey, the cats Stephanie and I had before Hozzie and Avery. As cats will do (though nobody warns you when you plunge headfirst into petdom), Bernie and Casey […] |
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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