 
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. |
It’s a big world with lots of people of it. Even our little part of it — in which people in the New York area cheer for a baseball team — is pretty big. No, I wasn’t specific about the baseball team. For one night, I’m going to expand our circle to include Yankees fans. Only […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cardinals, Jonathon Niese, Kyle Farnsworth, Michael Pineda, Michael Wacha, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees When I think of the Cardinals winning yet another pennant, I think of the episode of The Simpsons in which Grandpa Abe tells Bart the story of the Flying Hellfish from World War II, which leads to the two of them tracking down valuable stolen paintings that could make them very rich. Ultimately, however, they […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Postseason, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Heathers, The Simpsons You knew the Cardinals would beat the Pirates, didn’t you? The Cardinals are the new inevitables of the National League. They may not win the World Series. They may not win the pennant. But they always stick around because they never really go away. They trump most of the good stories that orbit in their […] When the Mets interrupt one of their concentrated spans of ineptitude with a rare show of net-competence — such as that displayed Thursday afternoon at Busch Stadium in an unlikely 5-2 victory over the exalted St. Louis Cardinals of Keith Hernandez’s fundamentally sound fantasies — I am moved to recall an exchange from the 1984 […] The Mets are bad and will continue to be bad for the rest of the season. That I’ve basically made my peace with. They have the second-worst record in the National League. Since winning seven of their first eleven games, they’ve lost 17 of 24. Nobody’s scored fewer runs among N.L. teams dating back to the […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bette Midler, Cardinals, Dae-Sung Koo, Gabe Paul, Jeremy Hefner, Losing, Rick Ankiel, Roger Kahn, Sandy Alderson, Scott Atchison, Scott Rice, Ty Wigginton, Zack Wheeler I’ve mostly followed the ongoing National League Championship Series via peripheral vision, not having fully sat down to gaze directly upon the Giants and Cardinals very much given that for their first five games I’ve mostly been doing something else, thinking about something else or literally mostly watching something else (the full power of P-I-P […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Barry Zito, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval The benefit and curse of having seen ten tons of baseball games and being able to nimbly catalogue among the standouts almost by reflex is that you’re rarely starved for precedent when something seemingly unprecedented occurs. So while it is true that nobody had ever seen anything quite like what happened between Washington and St. […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Charlie Slowes, Davey Johnson, Nationals Nice to see so many Braves fans decided all at once to reject the symbolism inherent in their foam tomahawks and hurl them to the field in protest of what they represent. What surprised me was learning they also found empty Bud Light cans culturally insensitive. Or maybe they just thought they got jobbed on a […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Andrelton Simmons, Braves, Captain Morgan, Cardinals, Chipper Jones, Infield Fly Rule, Orioles, Pete Kozma, Phil Niekro, Rangers, Sam Holbrook, Wild Card Carlos Beltran is a Cardinal. I say good for him. A player criminally unappreciated by the Mets’ stupider fans deserves a last go-round in a town that’s reflexively supportive of its players. But isn’t it weird that Beltran’s a Cardinal? Because remember he took that called third strike that one time against the Cardinals? (If you haven’t […] In his career, he was — among other things — an Astro, a Giant and a Met. He stood in the batter’s box representing the last shred of doubt as to where a hard-earned National League flag would fly. If he succeeded, his team would know life and a possible world championship. If he didn’t, […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1992 Mets, 2006 Mets, Astros, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Historical Dissonance, Kevin Bass |
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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