 
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. |
Let’s revisit two days ago’s rather optimistic Mets recap post, shall we? (You don’t want to? Tough. I don’t particularly want to either, but I’m driving this train.) Bobby Parnell may be learning to be successful without his best slider, but nothing a pitcher can learn will get him through days when all he has is his […]  8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Soilmaster Stadium How many duck-and-cover games have the Mets played in Soilmaster Stadium, anyway? And how many of those ended with some fleet, scrappity Marlin hitting a ball just past the first baseman’s glove, or just through the drawn-in infield, or just hugging the third-base line, or just catastrophic enough in some unanticipated way to spell doom […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Hope, Marlins, Mike Pelfrey, Soilmaster Stadium The little black cloud narrative of Mets fandom has been overdone in recent years — our team was one good swing away from the World Series in 2006 and played highly meaningful games on the last day of the season in 2007 and 2008, which the good people of Pittsburgh and Kansas City would take […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Disappointment, Fans, Francisco Rodriguez, Jason Isringhausen, Jonathon Niese, Jose Reyes, Sandy Alderson David Wright is one second opinion away from going on the Disabled List. MRI revals lower back stress fracture. Examination of Mets roster reveals no obvious alternatives for third base or the batting order. True, he was mostly sucking, but just as true, he’s David Wright. Rest is allegedly what’s required to get this injury better. […] The game the Mets just lost is the kind of game I’ve come to associate with the post-humidor Coors Field: a quiet succumbing, like getting hugged by a python that squeezes a tiny bit more each time you exhale, so that little by little everything goes black. The game starts too late, ends too late, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Coors Field, David Wright, Injuries, Josh Thole, Rockies, Willie Harris Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 28th game in any Mets season, the “best” 29th game in any Mets season, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2011 Mets, David Wright, Fiftieth Anniversary, Jorge Julio, Ronny Paulino, Team History, The Happiest Recap Even for my baseball-obsessed family, it was a wall-to-wall day. Saturday began with the annual Little League Parade, an exercise in genial chaos in which a rainbow of teams assemble on a block of 1st Street whose residents I imagine make sure to be out of town this particular weekend, then march down 7th Avenue to […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brooklyn, Carlos Beltran, Chris Capuano, David Wright, Fathers and Sons, Jose Reyes, Terry Collins Josh Thole loomed as Mr. Metaphor Saturday night, falling down rounding first and getting his eager ass tagged out on a throw-behind from Emilio Bonifacio to Gaby Sanchez in the seventh, then picking himself up, dusting himself off and lining the go-ahead single in the ninth. Turned out, however, Thole’s destiny was to serve as […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, 2011 Mets, Blaine Boyer, Bobby Parnell, Brad Emaus, Brett Hayes, Carlos Beltran, Chin-lung Hu, Chris Coghlan, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Emilio Bonifacio, Frankie Rodriguez, Gaby Sanchez, Greg Dobbs, Ike Davis, Jon Niese, Jose Reyes, Josh Thole, Logan Morrison, Lucas Duda, Mike Dunn, Mookie Wilson, Omar Infante, Redemption, Ryan Webb, Scott Cousins, Soilmaster Stadium, Terry Collins, Willie Harris Looking back, you could see that as the last moment when the sports business was at human scale, a club where everybody knew who was who. Why wouldn’t you want to be around baseball in December? It’s so much better than everything else December has to offer. Tuesday, December 14, […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blogging, Carlos Beltran, David Wright, Ike Davis, Jason Bay, Media, Mets Holiday Party, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins, Winter Our whole year builds up to these kinds of Fall Classic moments: we anticipate every move; we dissect every morsel of potential strategy; we hang on every word written and spoken in advance…and then, finally, the big event takes place. For us Mets fans, offseason press conferences are our version of World Series games — except […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Postseason, 2011 Mets, David Wright, Hope, Jose Reyes, Matt Cain, Michael Kay, Michael Young, Mike Francesa, New Era, Sandy Alderson |
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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