 
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. |
By now we’re used to Dillon Gee. We don’t think “My goodness, Dillon Gee is starting — I better clear my calendar.” We don’t barrage Twitter with our top-shelf material. We don’t rotate in a cheeky/blasphemous cover image for our Facebook page. It’s just Dillon Gee, after all. Maybe we’re a little too used to Dillon […] I’m pretty sure the Mets won their game Friday night. Score says they did. My memory says they did. Eric Young, Jr., tossing his helmet into the air before stomping on home plate amid a sea of orange-trimmed blue jerseys says they did. So why doesn’t it feel more festive? Probably because, in descending order of […]  15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amos Otis, Carlos Torres, David Aardsma, David Cone, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Ed Hearn, Eric Young Jr., Interleague Play, Joe Foy, Pedro Feliciano, Royals Nine innings? Three hours and twenty-three minutes? What a gyp! What kind of Mets game is that in the middle of the night? Surely it was only the opener of a twidawn doubleheader. Surely they had to replay the sixth to the thirteenth from the night before in deference to Bruce Bochy attempting to make […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Marathons, Marlon Byrd, Rosemary Woods, Shaun Marcum, Team History, Terry Collins, West Coast Trips On Friday night, after getting to be part of a conversation with Dwight Gooden, Greg and I were in the right-field stands, watching Matt Harvey finish up his domination of the Nationals. “How is it this team isn’t in first place?” I asked him. “Doesn’t it feel like they should be?” That’s what a 7-4 road trip […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Daniel Murphy, Delusion, Dillon Gee, Fans 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 The descent of Western Civilization from its state of earthly pre-eminence can be dated from the pagan celebrations that regularly engulfed the plates of home in the early stages of the twenty-first century Anno Domini. These were bacchanalia whose sheer offensiveness to long-established standards of morals and tastes crested with the actions of the False […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob Costas, Cholula Hot Sauce, Dillon Gee, Freddie Freeman, Lucas Duda, Rain Delays It feels like a big deal, the Mets winning one of the 162 baseball games they’ll play this year. It shouldn’t. It shouldn’t but it does. Why, the Mets got great pitching from Dillon Gee, who looks like he’s shaken off whatever was ailing him to return to being a quietly effective pitcher, one of those guys […] After more than a year-and-a-half in dental denial that those random pains in my mouth were nothing that couldn’t be artfully ignored, I submitted to inevitable oral surgery this past Tuesday. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for a lark, I put myself in the hands of capable, caring professionals who made it nothing like the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, PItching, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep “One night against San Antonio, we announced a crowd of eight hundred and six, and I sat there during halftime and I started counting the people in the stands, and my best guess is there were really about four hundred people at the game. And I went up to Rudy Martzke, who was then the […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Attendance, Caesars Club, Customer Service, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, John Franco, Suspended Games, Tickets In the heart of the communications capital of the world, I couldn’t say for sure what was going on one borough over. You can wire yourself up to the gills so you know everything at every minute the minute it happens, but if you find yourself one story beneath the sidewalk in an edgy Greenwich […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, Ike Davis, Juan Lagares, Marlon Byrd, Mike Baxter, The Happiest Recap (The Book), Varsity Letters |
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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