 
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. |
Your meaningful games in September update: The Mets are officially better than they were the last two years — they won their 75th game of the year tonight. For the moment at least they’re better than the Marlins, though tied in the lost column. Can they finish with a winning record after the All-Star break? They’ll need to […] There were nearly as few available Mets as there were visible Mets fans at Citi Field Wednesday night. The “25-man roster” was as hyperbolic a calculation as “paid attendance of 22,014”. Terry Collins fielded a Quadruple-A lineup, relied on a three-man bench and came up a run short of victory. On the plus side, boy was […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrelton Simmons, August, Braves, Left Field Landing, Ruben Tejada, Wilmer Flores Curtis Granderson isn’t having fun so far. There’s the .127 batting average, the $60 million contract, and even the defense — what, exactly, that throw in the nightmarish top of the fifth was is a question best not pondered. Granderson is by all accounts a peach of a guy, but he’s been hearing boos from […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Curtis Granderson, Dan Uggla, Freddie Freeman, Justin Upton, Scott Rice Late last season I was moved to recall a childhood friend named Evan Radler. We knew each other for one baseball-laden summer and saw each other exactly once more when it was over. He grew up to be a rabbi who died well ahead of his time, two facts I discovered long after they occurred. Somewhere […] I’m still trying to confirm that Veterans Day has an April Fools component to it, because the bit I read Monday about the Braves moving out of currently 17-year-old Turner Field three years from now makes for quite the doozy, the whopper and the priceless gag. Hats off, fellas, I wanna say. But it’s apparently real, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ballparks, Braves, Cobb County, Time, Turner Field Just when I think one of the funnest days of non-Mets baseball ever couldn’t get any more funner, I nod off in the eighth inning of the last reel of this rollicking quadruple-feature, the overly familiar Atlanta Braves leading the Los Angeles Dodgers by a run. I open my eyes maybe fifteen minutes later and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Postseason, Braves, Carlos Beltran, Clayton Kershaw, Dodgers, Freddy Garcia, George Stone, Grant Balfour, Jose Lobaton, Juan Uribe, Michael Wacha, Rays, Sheadenfreude, Victor Martinez Every year it seems we play one team far more often than we play anybody else. Or maybe every week it seems that way. Four games in San Diego felt like an eternity, and it was long ago proven the Padres don’t actually exist. Either way, WTF’s with having to play the Braves every five […] All in all, we can agree, Super Tuesday went pretty well. Matt Harvey, facing the odd circumstance of his start being the undercard, reminded us who’s the ace around here, absolutely dismantling the Braves with everything in his arsenal. And if you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention — just ask Jason Heyward, who […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, David Wright, Dennis Cook, Dillon Gee, Matt Harvey, Zack Wheeler Mets. Braves. Eight innings. Tie game. Rain. Suspended. Sound familiar? That’s because, per the Beatles, this happened once before. These very same clubs got through eight innings of no-decision baseball and called it quits in Queens, deciding to pick up where they left off later thanks to wet weather. It was just the same as it […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Braves, Dale Murray, Jeff Reardon, Jeremy Hefner, Joe Torre, Lee Mazzilli, Mettle the Mule, Pete Falcone, Richie Hebner, Suspended Games Sigh. Let’s be honest with each other. I don’t particularly want to write about today’s deplorable suckfest against the Braves, and you don’t particularly want to read about it. Because if you saw it, the afterimage of lousy pitching, vandalism afield and crummy hitting is probably still burned onto your retinas, and why on earth would you […] |
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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