 
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. |
Happiness is Dillon Gee throwing eight innings of three-hit shutout ball. Happiness is Gee pitching every fifth day, instilling nothing but confidence by his very appearance in the Mets rotation. Happiness is nodding off in the seventh when the Mets are up, 4-0, and stirring in the ninth to see the Mets are still up, 4-0. Happiness is […] Every baseball fan worth her salt knows it’s one of the fundamental rules of fandom: You extrapolate from Opening Day at your peril. Collin Cowgill‘s grand slam on Opening Day 2013 didn’t kickstart a 162-0 season and a World Series title, or keep Cowgill in the major leagues until early May. On Opening Day 1969 Tom Seaver […]  6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andrew Brown, Bobby Parnell, Collin Cowgill, David Wright, Fans, Hope, Opening Day I’m going to deal with the lousy part of the day first, because I don’t want it to be the last thing on the page when you’re done reading. Frank Francisco got a called strike three, the Mets shook hands and then threw their hats into the crowd, and the video board started replaying the highlights […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Fans, Juan Centeno, Mike Piazza Would it have disturbed some grand plan to have allowed Dillon Gee to pitch the seventh inning Thursday night? The man threw 193 innings entering his final start of the season after missing almost three months in 2012. He’s been our only starter to take the ball every turn of the rotation from the first […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Aardsma, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Johnny Hellweg, Josh Satin, The Book, The Code The Mets won a truncated game in Philadelphia Saturday night. Though earlier this year we were subject to a plethora of unnecessarily lengthened contests, this version of baseball aberration — six innings and change before the rain made itself unstoppably intrusive — seems more fitting for the 2013 Mets, given that almost every 2013 Met […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, David Wright, Mets Third Basemen, Team History 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 After last night’s thriller, today’s game was almost certain to be a letdown — but unfortunately it was worse than that. It was the inverse of last night, with the key plays going minutely but decisively the Giants’ way. Omar Quintanilla and Daniel Murphy were just a bit slow trying to turn the double play […] 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 Maybe this is actually the year of the overlooked Mets pitcher. Sure, Matt Harvey has been Olympian and each start makes Zack Wheeler looks more like the phenom he was heralded as. But the other day we were talking about Dillon Gee’s turnaround. Not so long ago Jenrry Mejia came off the prospect scrap heap to […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Derek Jeter, Diamondbacks, Jonathon Niese, MLB, New York, Todd Zeile, Tuffy Gosewisch, Uniforms, Yankees This weekend was my annual get-together with my college pals, and while I’m never happy to miss a Mets game, Mets-Royals is about as missable as it gets. Like my blog partner, I have nothing against the Royals — in fact, I have a certain distracted, information-free affection for them. Back in the late 1970s, a […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Marlon Byrd, Royals, Wilmer Flores |
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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