 
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. |
Y’know that saying about how you have to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games? Well, if I can take the liberty of substituting that supposition with “supporter,” I think I’ve proven myself one of the better Mets fans of 2013. I am Jerry Koosman, 1977.  14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  20 Losses, Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, Jack Fisher, Jerry Koosman, Oktoberfest, Roger Craig, Tracy Stallard Imagine if the men who rule baseball reduced each team’s schedule to its most elemental struggle. The Yankees and Red Sox would play each other 162 times — 81 in New York and 81 in Fenway — with at least 130 of those games shown on ESPN or FOX. (This would lead to only a […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Cole Hamels, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Fans, Phillies There ain’t much left to play for: A .500 season vanished from the realm of possibility with the afternoon’s listless defeat, and draft picks are too much of a crapshoot for me to take seriously. But as is often the case, I think I’m moved on to acceptance. It was … kinda fun watching the Mets […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Frank Francisco, Keith Hernandez, Shaun Marcum “[A]nd in 1912 I won 26. That’s the year I won 19 straight — I didn’t lose a single game in 1912 until July 8! Actually, I won 20 straight, not 19, but because of the way they scored then I didn’t get credit for one of them. […] Well, at any rate that record […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Al Simmons, Anthony Recker, Carlos Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Daniel Murphy, Max Scherzer, Ralph Kiner, Richie Allen, Rube Marquard, Willie Mays In the bottom of the ninth, with one out, the score tied and the winning run on second, I was deliriously certain that Wilmer Flores would single, making the Mets walkoff winners and getting himself mobbed at first. When Flores grounded out instead, I was not particularly disheartened: The Braves walked John Buck (not sure […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Hernandez, Daniel Murphy, Football, Freddie Freeman, Instant Replay, Jerry Layne, Terry Collins, Umpires Get out your microscopes, because we’re going to examine a very small silver lining. For much of the spring, as horrific loss followed horrific loss, I advised you to do something else with your summer, even as I knew I wouldn’t take my own advice. I didn’t and I’m glad I didn’t, because the Mets are […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chad Fairchild, Daniel Murphy, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Umpiring If you want to swim with the sharks, you’ve got to learn to outlast the Marlins. Or something like that. And son of a Rich Renteria, Monday night we sure as Orestes Destrade did. On the twentieth anniversary plus one day of the evening Anthony Young didn’t just not lose to but actually won against then-expansion […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, Anthony Young, Bobby Parnell, Christian Yelich, Daniel Murphy, Dave Gallagher, Eddie Murray, Giancarlo Stanton, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jeff McKnight, Juan Pierre, Marlins, Marlon Byrd, Ryan Thompson, The Shawshank Redemption Yeah, OK. I don’t want to do this and you don’t want me to do this either, because today’s game was unpleasant and relentless. The only saving grace was Gary and Ron, long after any sensible person had fled for other channels, showing off their knowledge of former presidents: Ronnie went for William Taft’s post-White […] Some Met — I can’t remember whom and it’s resisting my Googling skills, so let’s just say it was Ron Swoboda — once noted that fans have it tougher than the players, because the players can do something, while the fans have to sit there and watch. Is it so? I’ve seen the photo of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jayson Werth, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Ross Ohlendorf I will not read too much into this afternoon’s Mets’ 11-0 thrashing of the Nationals. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bob Gibson, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Sequestration |
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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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