 
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. |
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. Come on along The first player this […]  17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2005 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Beverages, Blogging, Most Valuable Met, Pedro A. Martinez, Pedro Martinez, The Simpsons You know we cherish our Mets Pop Culture here, so much so that at the end of every year we round up the previous twelve months of such sightings — anywhere that anything Mets shows up in a non-sports, non-news context — and present them with Oscar’s Cap Awards. That, of course, is Oscar as in […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A League of Their Own, Blogging, Chico Escuela, Dave Kingman, Don Hahn, Greg Goossen, Humor Me, Internal Affairs, Juan Samuel, Madam Secretary, Mets Pop Culture, Oscar's Cap Awards, Rudy, Sam Hoffman, Show Business, Television, Unlikely Events Welcome to FAFIF Turns Ten, a milestone-anniversary series in which we consider anew some of the topics that have defined Mets baseball during our first decade of blogging. In this installment, we delineate our two primary states of being. The Monday before the Mets opened their 2015 season would have to go down in pencil as […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, Alex Torres, Blogging, Cory Mazzoni, FAFIF Turns Ten, Jerry Blevins, Losing, Matt den Dekker, Winning It must have been a sportswriter who came up with that line about ballplayers you’d pay to see since baseball writers don’t pay to see baseball. In that spirit, since I didn’t pay to see Thursday night’s game, I will detour to Cliché Stadium and declare I’d pay good money to see Yasiel Puig play […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Dodgers, Eric Campbell, Jon Niese, Jonathon Niese, Media, Yasiel Puig Bud Harrelson looked bored. I looked again, to make sure. Yes, Derrel McKinley Harrelson definitely looked bored. The Mets icon turned Long Island Ducks co-owner was standing in the parking lot of Citi Field, leaning on a metal barrier set up around a stretch of asphalt that had been turned into a Wiffle ball field. No one […] Ya gotta start somewhere, and Collin McHugh certainly did. (Photo by Sharon Chapman) He may barely register on the pitching staff radar as the first day of full-squad workouts commences (though it feels like the Mets have been in Port St. Lucie for a month already), but Collin McHugh was front and center in […] There really are Mazzys. They look nothing like their namesake Lee Mazzilli, but who besides Lee Mazzilli ever did? I won my third consecutive Mazzy for writing about the Mets Saturday night. The first two were notes in blog posts, which was plenty nice as it was. The third was handed to me like it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Fans, Mets Police, Winter If you’re familiar with Faith and Fear’s origins story, you know Jason and I “met” on an America Online board approximately 18½ years ago (a time frame not to be confused with nearly two decades, because that would be a chronological impossibility, for crissake) and we took off for Shea Stadium and points unknown from […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Shannon Forde, The Mary Tyler Moore Show Forty seasons of home games at Shea Stadium and Citi Field. Literally hundreds of visits. Wins. Losses. Elation. Heartbreak. The gamut of human emotions. The whole bit. Except for a ball. I had never gotten a ball from the field of play. Not foul, not fair, not batting practice. Mine. But that has changed. Thirty-nine years […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Actual Baseball, Batting Practice, Blogging, Bobby Ojeda, Carlos Lee, Greg Dobbs, LOOK OUT Among the many Mets bloggers carrying on for the one who couldn’t make it to Hofstra were Steve Keane, John Coppinger, Taryn Cooper and yours truly. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bornstein.) Dear Dana, I either have to thank you or blame you for directing me to file my overdue report on the Hofstra Mets 50th […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Art Shamsky, Blogging, Buddy Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Dana Brand, Dave Kingman, Ed Charles, Ed Kranepool, Fiftieth Anniversary, George Vecsey, Gil Hodges, Hofstra Conference, Marv Throneberry, Mets Fans, Mr. Met, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Team History |
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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